#NepalVotes

Senior citizens cast their ballot in Kathmandu's Hanuman Dhoka on Friday morning. Photos: RSS and AMIT MACHAMASI

Nepalis all around the country are queuing up to vote in the local elections today. Nepal will be choosing from 145,010 individuals for more than 35,221 legislative and executive seats in 753 local units across 77 districts. Of these, 390 representatives have already been elected unopposed.

A total of 17,733,723 voters are registered of which 8,992,010 are male, 8,741,530 female and 183 have registered under the 'others' category. An estimated 300,000 people have travelled to their home districts this week to vote in Friday’s elections.

Incumbent mayor of Lalitpur Chiribabu Maharjan with his wife after casting their ballot at Ward 3 this morning.

Nepali Congress leader Prakash Man Singh at his voting booth in Kathmandu's Ward 16 Paknajol.

UML co-chair Surendra Pandey at a voting booth in Chitwan.

Bharatpur incumbent mayor casting her vote.

Kathmandu mayor candidate Srijana Singh of Nepali Congress.

UML vice chair for Kathmandu nominee former Miss Newa Sunita dangol

Nepali Congress leader Ramchandra Paudel at Byas Municipality of Tanahu district.

UML vice chair nominee former Miss Newa Sunita dangol

An elderly at a voting booth in Baglung'sGalkot Municipality.

A woman casts her vote in Suryabinaka, Bhaktapur.

A key concern in this election is the probability of high number of invalid votes as several parties have forged electoral alliances and with around 79 political parties registered, the ballot paper will have more election symbols than candidates.