Published: April 10, 2008
Nepal Election in Photos
By John Child in Kathmandu
John Child, The NewsBlaze Nepal Correspondent, in Kathmandu made a pictorial story about the Election in Nepal. The photos were taken in and around Kathmandu.
There are blue ballots for the first-past-the-post phase, red for the proportional vote. Only party symbols are listed, not candidates' names, even on the first-past-the-post ballot. Voters register and leave their thumbprint on the stub at the top, then the ballot is torn off and given to them.
Ballots ready - blue for the first-past-the-post phase, red for the proportional vote. Only party symbols are listed, not candidates' names, even on the first-past-the-post ballot. Voters register and leave their thumbprint on the stub at the top, then the ballot is torn off and given to them.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu | 
Waiting to vote in Sanepa. Men and women queue separately, then vote twice behind the blue and red privacy shields.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu |
A woman collects her first ballot as an election officer explains how to vote.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu | 
An elderly woman votes. Her daughter, in yellow, helped her get to the polls.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu |
A police officer stands guard at a voting booth.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu | 
Maoist election graffiti in front of the Norwegian Embassy. Voters mark their ballots with a swastika stamp. The symbol is sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists, and is considered an auspicious sign. There is no association here with Naziism.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu |
Students relax under a Maoist banner.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu | 
Nepali Congress party office open, just steps from the polling station in Tangal, Lalitpur.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu |
Polling station in front of the Krishna Temple at Mangal Bazaar
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu | 
Police patrolling the streets. Their truck is passing election graffiti that reads "Prachanda for first president of a new democratic Nepal."
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu |
Across from the polling station in Jawalakhel, royalist supporters put a fresh flower garland on the statue of King Birendra, assassinated in 2001.
Photo: John Child in Kathmandu | |
John Child is The NewsBlaze Nepal Correspondent, a journalist in Kathmandu who writes about goings-on in and around Nepal and her neighbors.
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