The chief election commissioner in Nepal says voter turnout has been the largest in the nation's history.
Security was tight across the country after a coalition of 33 parties threatened to disrupt Tuesday's voting.
An eight-year-old boy was injured after a bomb went off near a polling station in the capital, Kathmandu. Despite the incident, it is hoped the election will end six years of political deadlock.
Voters are electing a second national assembly to write a new constitution after the first failed.
Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman reports from Kathmandu.
Source: Al Jazeera