Kathmandu, Feb. 26 -- The Election Commission has dispatched ballot papers and all necessary materials to all 165 constituencies for the House of Representatives elections slated for March 5.

Narayan Prasad Bhattarai, spokesperson for the commission, said election officials have been deployed to polling centres, and all staff are required to reach their stations by March 2.

Proportional ballot papers, printed in black on white, cover 58 parties and total 20.8 million copies. First-past-the-post ballot papers, tailored to constituency candidate lists, total 20.3 million for 3,406 contenders nationwide. Ballot papers' size varies with the number of candidates, with larger ballot papers in constituencies fielding more contenders. Remote di...