KATHMANDU: The Election Commission has made public the final closed list of Proportional Representation (PR) candidates contesting the March 5 election to the House of Representatives.

The final list of candidates published by the Commission today includes a total of 3,135 candidates with 57 election symbols from 63 different political parties. The published closed list includes 1,772 female and 1,363 male candidates, according to a statement issued by the Commission’s spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai.