KATHMANDU, Jan 25: Voting is in progress at the designated polling stations and centers in the capitals of the seven provinces for electing 19 members of the National Assembly (NA). 

The Election Commission has fixed 9.00 AM to 3.00 PM today for voting. It stated that the counting of votes would be started immediately after the voting concludes.

Election Commission's Deputy Spokesperson Shreedhar Panthi said voting is underway in all the seven provinces under the election to the 19 members of the Upper House of the Federal Parliament.

According to him, the election results will be announced today itself. The electoral college comprising the province assembly members and the chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of rural municipalities, and the mayors and deputy mayors of the urban municipalities will take part in the voting. 

A single vote of a province assembly member has a weightage of 53 and that of the chair and vice-chair of rural municipalities and mayor and deputy-mayor of urban municipalities carries a weightage of 19. The total vote weightage is 57, 559.

Two thousand and forty-seven voters, including 549 province assembly members and 1,498 chairs and vice-chair of rural municipalities and mayors and deputy mayors of urban municipalities will cast their votes in the election.

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