First phase elections in pictures.
1.A relative brings Battai Kumal of Nilkantha Rural Municipality-8, Dhading to a polling station (Shankar Shrestha/Republica)
UDMF for polls in a single phase
2. 77-year old Tulache Tamata of Junichande Rural Municipality-4, Janjarkot casts his vote at Adarsha Secondary School polling station (Janak KC/Republica).
3. Polling officials get ready to leave for district headquarters with ballot boxes after concluding the polls at a polling station in Solukhumbu (Republica).
4. Former Speaker of the Parliament Onsari Gharti Magar (front) along with her husband and former Finance Minister Barsaman Pun at a polling station in Thabang, Rolpa (Dinesh Subedi/Republica).
5.Voters stand in queue to cast votes at a polling station in Panchathar (Republica).