Sixty-four political parties are competing for 58 election symbols in the House of Representatives elections to be held on February 21. Fifty-four parties will participate in the election with their own election symbols and 10 parties in alliance will participate in the election with four election symbols. A total of 3,424 candidates have filed their candidacies for 110 seats in the proportional representation (PR) category.

54 parties have submitted their closed lists to the Election Commission individually, while two or more parties have submitted 4 closed lists in alliance. The Election Commission had set the date for submitting the closed list for proportional representation as 13-14 Pus. However, due to the delay in submitting the lists, the Commission had to process the closed list not only all night on Monday but also until Tuesday morning.

On the first day of submitting the closed list, only 3 parties submitted their lists on Sunday. On the second day, the pressure to submit the lists to the Commission increased only after Monday afternoon. Major parties including the Congress, UML, NCP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) did not submit the lists within office hours. Parties that were busy with internal party meetings and party unification processes until late at night used the Commission as per their convenience.

UML reached the Commission with the list at 8 pm on Monday. After that, the NCP submitted its list of candidates. While the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) reached the Commission only after 1 am, the old party Congress submitted its list only on Tuesday morning. The head of the publicity department of the Nepali Congress, Min Bishwakarma, was at the commission premises from noon until night. However, the party had a hard time preparing a list of 110 people by reaching an agreement among the factions within the party.

93 applications were submitted by 100 political parties to compete in the proportional representation. Within the period given by the commission from 21-23 Mangsir for the registration of parties participating in the proportional representation election, 88 parties had applied individually and 12 parties had applied from 5 different groups. The closed list was expected to come from those parties. The commission had managed the computers and staff accordingly.