Kathmandu, March 11 -- The vote counting for the March 5 election in Nepal's House of Representatives has concluded late Wednesday, with Nepal's Election Commission (EC) making final preparations for the official announcement of results.

"The count is complete. But final results are yet to be published since data entry is still taking place," EC assistant spokesperson Kul Bahadur GC confirmed to ANI over the phone. The vote-counting process took a week to complete, he added.

On Wednesday afternoon, the proportional representation (PR) votes for the House of Representatives were fully counted.

According to the EC's data entry system, a total of 10,789,078 PR votes were counted nationwide.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), led by Rabi...