7.3 Jurisdiction of Election Tribunal

Nepal's design (the constitutional-and-statutory map):1. The first gate — the EC itself: the candidacy's-and-roll's decisions (Article 246's finality), the code's enforcement — the Commission's administrative adjudication.2. The election petitions (the result's challenge): the federal-and-provincial electiondisputes lie in the Supreme Court's Constitutional Bench (Article 137's own enumeration — the verified constitutional reference: the federal/provincial election disputes' jurisdiction) —the petition's window (the Act's short limitation — the 35-day-type discipline), the grounds (the corrupt practices, the disqualification's concealment, the counting's-and-procedure's illegality), the remedies (the election's voidance; the seat's declaration-and-by-election's direction). Thelocal-level disputes' route: the Local Level Election Act's discipline — the Commission's-and- the-designated-authority's petition-and-decision with the Supreme Court's appeal.3. The writ jurisdiction's parallel door: the constitutional torts of the process (the EC's own review — the Sunil Ranjan Singh-type certiorari against the Commission; the candidacy-and- symbol decisions) through Article 133's extraordinary jurisdiction.4. The comparative note: the dedicated election tribunals' models (India's high-court-and-RO tradition) vs Nepal's constitutional-bench design — the judicial concentration's choice.