Kathmandu, March 6 -- Over 58 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots in the House of Representatives elections that concluded largely peacefully across the country.

Except for a few incidents of clashes and disputes in some hilly and Madhesh districts, millions of voters exercised their franchise in the first elections following the September Gen Z movement.

"Holding the elections on the scheduled date under exceptional circumstances and ensuring their enthusiastic completion was itself a challenge," said Ram Prasad Bhandari, acting chief election commissioner. "We successfully completed the job."

As Bhandari claims, there were only some minor scuffles in Dolakha, Sarlahi, and Rautahat districts. At Malu polling centre in ward 4...