Voting is underway at the Parliamentary building in New Baneshwar to elect a new Vice President.

This is the third vice-presidential election in Nepal.

Ashta Laxmi Shakya from the CPN-UML, Pramila Yadav and Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav from the Janata Samajbadi Party, and Mamata Jha from the Janamat Party, are vying for the nation’s second-highest position.

As many as 332 federal lawmakers and 550 provincial lawmakers are eligible to cast their votes in the election.

The election of the Vice President is held based on a weighted voting system, with an electoral college of 884 federal and provincial lawmakers in total.

A vote cast by a member of both upper and lower houses will have a weightage of 79, whereas it is 48 for a vote cast by a member of the provincial assembly.