Two Additional Temporary Polling Stations to be Established in Chitwan for Upcoming Federal Elections

Chitwan. Two additional temporary polling stations will be established here for the upcoming House of Representatives elections. According to the Election Office in Bharatpur, in addition to the permanent polling stations, two temporary polling stations are being set up at the Chitwan Prison Office and the District Coordination Committee Chitwan.

Election Office Chief Bhimsen Karki informed that the temporary polling station at the Prison Office is for the inmates there, and the one at the District Coordination Committee is for security personnel and government employees who will not be assigned to polling stations.  

There are 115 voters in the prison. A total of 2,976 employees will be deployed for the election in the district.

While 494 permanent polling stations were maintained in the district, the number of polling stations has reached 496 with the establishment of the temporary polling stations. According to Karki, two more locations have been added to the 162 polling sites maintained in the district. There are 442,082 voters across the three constituencies in the district, comprising 217,314 male, 224,766 female, and two transgender voters.