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Deepak Kumar Sah, the candidate of the National Independent Party, has been elected in Sunsari Constituency No. 4 by securing 42,771 votes. He defeated his nearest rival, former minister and Nepali Congress candidate Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, by a margin of 26,184 votes. The defeated Gyanendra Bahadur Karki secured 16,587 votes.
In Nuwakot-1, Bikram Timilsina of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been elected, defeating Congress candidate and former Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat.
According to the public vote results on Sunday night, Timilsina won with a margin of 4,12 votes. The elected Timilsina received 22,609 votes, while his nearest competitor Mahat received 18,597 votes, according to the Returning Officer's Office.
Similarly, Hit Bahadur Tamang of the NCP came in third place with 13,377 votes, while Badri Prasad Mainali of the UML received only 8,932 votes.
Hit Bahadur Tamang, the then Maoist Center leader, had won consecutively in Nuwakot-1 in 2079 and 2074.
CPN-UML candidate Yagya Bahadur Bogati has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Achham-2. Bogati won by defeating Nepali Congress candidate Pushpa Shah by a margin of 472 votes. According to the final results released on Sunday night, Bogati received 9,518 votes while Congress' Shah received 9,046 votes.
Similarly, Bhupdev Shah of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) received 4,552 votes while NCP's Bal Bahadur Kunwar received 6,493 votes. Among the other candidates, Gulab Chishna received 558 votes, Halo received 167 votes, Madal received 60 votes, Chim received 52 votes and Aankh Chishna received 113 votes.
A total of 32,408 votes were cast in Achham-2.
The competition between Bogati and Shah in Achham-2 has been recurring in recent elections. In the 2074 BS election, Bogati started his journey to the parliament by defeating Shah. Then, in the 2079 BS election, Shah defeated Bogati.
This time, there was a tough competition between these two leaders again. Although the margin of victory was not very wide until the last round of counting, Bogati finally defeated Shah, maintaining his lead.
With this, Bogati has returned to the House of Representatives for the second time in Achham-2.- Menuka Dhungana
Rashtriya Swatantra Party candidate Shreedhar Pokharel has been elected in Bardiya constituency number 2. He received 29,678 votes. His closest competitor, Kishor Rathore of Nepali Congress, received 20,402 votes. The Rashtriya Swatantra Party has been elected in only two constituencies in Bardiya. Thakur Singh Tharu has been elected in constituency number 1.
Gauri Kumari of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been elected in Mahottari-4. She got 30,123 votes. Her nearest competitor, Surendra Kumar Yadav of the JSP, got 8,742 votes. Mahendra Kumar Ray of the Nepali Congress got 6,944 votes, and Neelam Adhikari of the UML got 6,192 votes.
Labor Culture Party Chairman Harkaraj Rai (Sampang) has won from Sunsari 1. He, who is also the former mayor of Dharan, won with 35,741 votes. Goma Tamang of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) came in second place. She got 27,249 votes. Similarly, UML candidate Tikaram Limbu got 6,463 votes. Similarly, Surya Bahadur Bhattarai of the NCP got 6,185 votes. Similarly, Congress candidate Sujendra Tamang got 3,970 votes.
Prakash Gautam of the National Independent Party has won in Makawanpur-1. He got 36,033 votes. His rival, Congresswoman Mahalaxmi Upadhyaya (DINA), got 14,038 votes. UML's Rameshwor Rana Magar got 12,783 votes and NCP's Vijay Gautam got 10,788 votes. Ujjwal Nepal Party's Surendra Lama got 10,205 votes. RPP's Deepak Bahadur Singh had won this constituency in 2079 BS with 27,816 votes.
Surya Tamang, the candidate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives in Udayapur-2.
He won with 14,802 votes. CPN-UML's Ambar Rayamajhi came in second with 7,648 votes.
Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Ramakant Prasad Chaurasia has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Parsa Constituency No. 3.
According to the final results, Chaurasia won by securing 29,679 votes. His nearest competitor, Surendra Prasad Chaudhary of Nepali Congress, received 16,366 votes.
Nepali Communist Party candidate Dhan Bahadur Budha has won in Dolpa. Budha won by getting 6,802 votes in the election for the member of the House of Representatives. He won by a margin of 1,406 votes over CPN-UML candidate Lanka Bahadur Rokaya. Candidate Rokaya, who was contesting the election for the member of the House of Representatives for the first time, was defeated by getting 5,396 votes. Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Karna Bahadur Budha came third by getting 2,947 votes. National Independent Party candidate Dev Singh Aidi got 181 votes, Rastriya Prajatantra Party candidate Hari Prasad Dangi got 92 votes, and independent candidate Omendra Bahadur KC got 54 votes. Similarly, Progressive Democratic Party candidate Bikash Budha got 21 votes, Ujjaya Nepal Party candidate Dil Bahadur Bista got 11 votes, and Miteri Party Nepal candidate Junu Bhandari got 2 votes. This time, the winning candidate Budha has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Dolpa for the fourth time in a row. This time, he won his fourth victory in Dolpa by defeating his brother Karna Bahadur Budha, the Nepali Congress candidate and joint general secretary. Although Dhan Bahadur Budha has won, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer has stated that a formal announcement is yet to be made. Ramchandra Neupane/Dolpa
Narendra Kumar Kerung of Nepali Congress has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Panchthar.
He was elected by defeating his nearest rival Hastraj Sherma of Shram Sanskriti Party by a margin of 2,499 votes.
Kerung received 17,233 votes while Sherma received 14,734 votes. - Laxmi Gautam
Sindhupalchowk. In the House of Representatives election 2082, Bharat Prasad Parajuli, the candidate of the National Independent Party (RIP), has won in Sindhupalchowk Constituency No. 1.
According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Parajuli defeated his nearest rival Madhav Sapkota of the CPN (Maoist Center) by securing 24,412 votes. Sapkota received 17,327 votes. Parajuli won by a margin of 7,085 votes.
National Independent Party candidate Mohanlal Acharya has won in Kapilvastu Constituency No. 1.
According to the public results on Sunday morning, Acharya has won by getting 34,148 votes. His nearest rival, independent candidate Ashish Sharma, was defeated by a margin of 18,288 votes. The defeated Sharma got 15,860 votes.
In Sarlahi Constituency No. 3, Rashtriya Swatantra Party candidate Narendra Sah Kalwar has been elected by securing 46,890 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Communist Party candidate Narayan Kaji Shrestha by a margin of 33,552 votes. The defeated Narayan Kaji Shrestha secured 13,338 votes.
In Jhapa Constituency No. 4, Rashtriya Swatantra Party candidate Shambhu Prasad Dhakal has been elected by securing 43,631 votes. He defeated his nearest rival, CPN (UML) candidate Lal Prasad Sanwa Limbu, by a margin of 31,645 votes. The defeated Lal Prasad Sanwa Limbu secured 11,986 votes.
According to the Election Commission, Madhu Kumar Chaulagain, the candidate of the National Independent Party, was elected in Kavrepalanchok Constituency No. 1 in the 2082 House of Representatives election by securing 29,618 votes. He defeated his nearest rival, Nepali Congress candidate Gunaraj Muktan, by a margin of 10,452 votes. The defeated Gunaraj Muktan secured 19,166 votes.
In Dhanusha Constituency No. 4, National Independent Party candidate Rajkishore Mahato has been elected by securing 48,270 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Congress candidate Mahendra Yadav by a margin of 32,461 votes. The defeated Mahendra Yadav secured 15,809 votes.
In Nawalparasi West Constituency No. 2, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Narendra Kumar Gupta has won by securing 44,138 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Congress candidate Bhim Bahadur Thapa Chhetri by a margin of 28,193 votes. The Election Commission has stated that the defeated Bhim Bahadur Thapa Chhetri secured 15,945 votes.
In Kailali Constituency No. 4, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Khemraj Koirala has been elected by securing 28,556 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Congress candidate Gorakh Bahadur Bista by a margin of 17,255 votes. The defeated Gorakh Bahadur Bista secured 11,301 votes.
In Palpa Constituency No. 2, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Madhav Bahadur Thapa has been elected by securing 26,736 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Congress candidate Himal Dutta Shrestha by a margin of 13,744 votes. The defeated Himal Dutta Shrestha secured 12,992 votes. Similarly, UML's Thakur Prasad Gaire received 10,502 votes.
Surya Bahadur Tamang, the candidate of the National Independent Party, has been elected in Udayapur Constituency No. 2 by securing 14,802 votes. He defeated his nearest rival, Ambar Bahadur Rayamajhi, the candidate of the CPN (UML), by a margin of 7,154 votes. The defeated Ambar Bahadur Rayamajhi secured 7,648 votes.
In Bara Constituency No. 2, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Chandan Kumar Singh has been elected by securing 35,590 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal candidate Ram Kishore Prasad Yadav by a margin of 21,394 votes. The defeated Ram Kishore Prasad Yadav secured 14,196 votes.
In Rukum West, Nepali Communist Party candidate Gopal Sharma has been elected by securing 21,609 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Congress candidate Raju KC by a margin of 4,948 votes. The defeated Raju KC secured 16,661 votes. Janardan Sharma of the Progressive Democratic Party secured 14,346 votes.
Former Deputy Speaker and National Independent Party candidate Indira Rana Magar has won in Jhapa Constituency No. 2 by securing 60,110 votes. She defeated her nearest rival, CPN (UML) candidate Devraj Ghimire by a margin of 48,742 votes. The defeated Devraj Ghimire secured 11,368 votes.
The counting of votes began at 10 am on Friday in Achham Constituency No. 2 under the House of Representatives election. However, only about 39 hours after the counting began, only about 15,000 votes have been counted.
It is said that about 15,000 votes are still to be counted in this area. The counting has neither been stopped nor has there been any dispute. However, the pace of counting has been very slow.
Although representatives of political parties proposed that the counting should be done at two places to speed up the counting, the Chief Electoral Officer did not accept the proposal, citing lack of space and security reasons, political party representatives said.
If the counting continues at this pace, it is estimated that it may take a few more days to get the final results. - Menuka Dhungana
NCP candidate Ramesh Kumar Malla has won in Salyan. Malla won by a margin of 2,283 votes, beating his nearest rival, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Lalit Kumar Chand.
According to Kamal Acharya, Election Officer of the Salyan Main Election Office, Malla got 23,189 votes, while his nearest rival, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Lalit Kumar Chand, got 20,904 votes.
Congress candidate Kesh Bahadur Bista got 17,558 votes and UML's Gulab Jung Shah got 15,373 votes.
There were 162,449 voters in Salyan, which has 208 polling stations, including 205 permanent and 3 temporary ones. Of these, 51 percent voted.
In Dhading Constituency No. 1, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Asika Tamang has won by securing 39,128 votes. She defeated her nearest rival, CPN (UML) candidate Bhumi Prasad Tripathi, by a margin of 24,096 votes. The defeated Bhumi Prasad Tripathi secured 15,032 votes.
Ganesh Singh Thagunna of CPN-UML has been elected from Darchula in the House of Representatives election. Thagunna received 18,891 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thagunna, who won from Darchula, which has only one constituency in the House of Representatives election, defeated Nepali Congress candidate Dharmananda Joshi by a margin of 3,055 votes. He received 15,836 votes, informed Chief Electoral Officer Bhuwan Giri.
Similarly, while National Independent Party (NIS) candidate Rajesh Singh Samanta received 8,936 votes, Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Laxman Dutta Joshi was limited to 3,065 votes. National Prajatantra Party candidate Rajesh Chand received 665 votes and CPN-Maoist candidate Nawaraj Bhatta received 285 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.
49,968 votes were cast in Darchula, which has 92,948 voters. Of which 2,047 votes were invalid.
In Darchula, which has only one constituency, 11 candidates were in the fray in this election. Other candidates could not even cross 100 votes.
Shankar Acharya
Parsa. As the counting of votes continues in Parsa Constituency No. 3 for the House of Representatives, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Ramakant Prasad Chaurasia is in the lead. According to the counting of votes so far, Chaurasia has received 20,463 votes. His nearest competitor, Surendra Prasad Chaudhary of Nepali Congress, has received 13,530 votes.
Similarly, Rupesh Kumar Pandey of CPN-UML is in third place with 9,479 votes. The counting of votes is ongoing.
Jyoti Katuwal
Purna Bahadur Rokaya of CPN-UML has taken an initial lead in Mugu. According to the preliminary results, Rokaya has secured 1,07. With 2,548 votes counted, Khadka Bahadur Shahi of Nepali Congress is in second place. While Shahi got 890 votes, Chandra Bahadur Shahi of Nepali Communist Party (NCP) has secured 224 votes. Similarly, Bhuwan Tamta of National Independent Party (NIP) has secured only 12 votes.
UML's Rajendra Kumar Rai has won in Dhankuta by getting 18,132 votes. His rival Dinesh Rai of Nepali Congress has got 14,257 votes. Shram Sanskriti Party's San Bahadur Rai has got 11,932 votes and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha's Dinesh Bhandari has got 9,944 votes.
Laxmi Gautam, Panchthar
CPN-UML candidate Aindra Sundar Nembang, who was in third place until the counting of votes in the six local levels of the district was completed, has moved up to second place after the counting of votes in Hilihang Rural Municipality.
Nepali Congress' Narendra Kumar Kerung continues to lead in the first place. Kerung received 12,280 votes while Nembang received 11,177 votes. With this, the difference between the Congress and UML has now reached 1,177.
Nepali Communist Party's Harka Bahadur Nembang is in fourth place with 7,112 votes. Panchthar, which has eight local levels and 60 wards, has so far completed the counting of wards 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Hilihang along with Miklajung, Tumbewa, Falelung, Falgunanda, Kummayak and Yangwarak. Now, the counting of votes for 14 wards of Phidim Municipality, along with wards 6 and 7 of Hilihang, remains to be done.
Manoj Poudel, Kapilvastu
The victory of Bikram Singh Thapa of the Rastriya Swatantra Party in Kapilvastu Constituency No. 2 in the House of Representatives election has been assured. With the counting of votes in Wards No. 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Yashodhara Rural Municipality still pending, he is ahead by 7,258 votes. While the number of votes cast in those wards is less than 7,000. Thapa has received 26,830 votes. His nearest rival, Surendra Raj Acharya of the Nepali Congress, has received 19,572 votes.
Devraj Pathak of the National Independent Party (NIPP) has been elected in Dang-1.
He was elected as an MP, defeating Congress Joint General Secretary Yogendra Chaudhary, former Urban Development Minister Metmani Chaudhary, former Lumbini Province Chief Minister Kul Prasad KC and former Lumbini Province MP Rewatiraman Sharma Ghimire.
Pathak won by 27,322 votes more than his main competitor. Pathak got 42,602 votes while his main competitor Congress Joint General Secretary Yogendra Chaudhary got 15,280 votes.
Similarly, UML's Rewatiraman Sharma Ghimire got 6,825 votes and Nepali Communist Party's Metmani Chaudhary got 4,965 votes. Similarly, former Lumbini Province Chief Minister Kul Prasad KC, who filed as an independent candidate, got 1,384 votes.
Constituency no. In Constituency No. 1, 37,614 men, 43,305 women and 1 other had 80,920 votes cast. This is 57.80 percent of the vote. In Constituency No. 1, there were 140,011 voters, including 70,554 men, 69,446 women and 1 other. -Durgalal KC
Tek Bahadur Shakya, a candidate of the National Independent Party (NISP), has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Parsa Constituency No. 4.
According to the final results, Shakya won by securing 28,06 votes. His nearest competitor, Ramesh Rijal of the Nepali Congress, secured 12,534 votes. Shakya defeated his nearest competitor, Rijal, by a margin of 15,472 votes to become a member of the House of Representatives.
Zalim Miyan Mansuri of the CPN-UML secured 12,145 votes. Similarly, Kripasindhu Prasad of the Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal received 4,758 votes, while Jayaprakash Tharu of the Nepal Communist Party received 3,113 votes. The Office of the Returning Officer has officially announced that Shakya has been elected. -Shankar Acharya
Deepak Kumar Sah, the candidate of the National Independent Party, has won in Mahottari Constituency No. 2 by securing 32,722 votes. He defeated his nearest rival, Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal candidate Sharat Singh Bhandari, by a margin of 22,524 votes. The defeated Sharat Singh Bhandari secured 10,198 votes.
In Siraha Constituency No. 4, National Independent Party candidate Tapeshwor Yadav has won by securing 36,210 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Nepali Communist Party candidate Ajay Shankar Nayak by a margin of 28,238 votes. The defeated Ajay Shankar Nayak secured 7,972 votes.
As the counting of votes continues in Parsa Constituency No. 4, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Tek Bahadur Shakya is in the lead. According to the counting of votes so far, Shakya has received 28,06 votes. His nearest competitor, Ramesh Rijal of Nepali Congress, has received 12,534 votes.
Similarly, CPN-UML's Zalim Miyan Mansuri is in third place, receiving 12,145 votes.
The National Independent Party (NIP) has maintained a wide lead in two constituencies of Bardiya. According to the latest results, NCP's Shreedhar Pokharel has secured 17,692 votes in Constituency No. 2. His nearest rival, Congress's Kishore Singh Rathore, has secured 9,363 votes. NCP's Suresh Pantha has secured 9,264 votes and UML's Bimala BK has secured 6,325 votes.
According to the latest vote count in Bardiya Constituency No. 1, the candidate of the National Independent Party is increasing his lead by a wide margin. According to the latest update, Thakur Singh Tharu is leading by a wide margin in Constituency No. 1 by securing 33,818 votes. His rivals, UML's Shalikram Adhikari, got 10,076 votes, Congress's Sanjay Gautam got 6,932 votes and NCP's Bishnu Chaudhary got 5,157 votes. The Chief Electoral Officer's Office has stated that 64,534 votes were counted out of 1,2866 votes cast in Constituency No. 1. -Kamal Panthi
Yagyamani Neupane, a candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP), has won the House of Representatives election from Morang Constituency No. 1. He defeated his nearest rival, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Shanti Pakhrin Lama, by 9,845 votes. Neupane received 27,367 votes.
Om Prakash Thakur, Sarlahi
Dr. Amresh Kumar Singh of the National Independent Party has increased his lead in Sarlahi Constituency No. 4.
Singh, who is also a member of the outgoing House of Representatives, has defeated Nepali Congress President Gagan Kumar Thapa by 7,813 votes. According to the latest results, Singh received 22,166 votes while Thapa received 15,053 votes.
Singh was elected to this constituency twice from the Nepali Congress and last time as an independent candidate in 2079 BS.
Ananda Gautam, Taplejung
CPN-UML candidate Kshitij Thebe has won from Taplejung for the House of Representatives. Thebe won by 2,251 votes, beating Nepali Congress' Gajendra Prasad Tumyahang. Thebe received 13,962 votes, while Tumyahang received 11,711 votes.
CPN's Khel Prasad Budhakhetri came third with 6,775 votes, while Shram Sanskriti Party's Santosh Rai came fourth with 5,209 votes, and Rastriya Swatantra Party's Birendra Shrestha came fifth with 4,155 votes. UML's Yogesh Bhattarai had previously won from Taplejung in 2074 and 2079.
Kamal Subedi of the National Independent Party has been elected from Dang Constituency No. 3. Subedi, a central member of the party training department, won by a margin of 27,795 votes over his rival Deepak Giri of the Nepali Congress. Subedi, who had been leading since the beginning of the counting of votes, which began on Friday morning, won by securing 44,248 votes. His nearest rival Giri of the Nepali Congress secured 16,453 votes while Ghanshyam Pandey of the CPN-UML secured 12,195 votes.
Madhav Aryal, Palpa
Nepali Congress candidate Sandeep Rana has won from Palpa constituency no. 1 by getting 18,336 votes. Rana won by defeating his nearest rival Narayan Acharya of UML by 1,517 votes. Acharya of UML got 16,819 votes and Bimal Pant of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh got 14,333 votes from this constituency.
In Siraha-2, Shiv Yadav of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been elected. Yadav was elected to the House of Representatives by securing 39,561 votes. His nearest rival, Ramchandra Yadav of the Nepali Congress, secured 12,814 votes. UML candidate Naveen Kumar Yadav came third with 6,713 votes.
As the counting of votes continues in Parsa-3, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Ramakant Prasad Chaurasia is leading. According to the counting of votes so far, Chaurasia has received 18,810 votes. His nearest competitor, Surendra Prasad Chaudhary of the Nepali Congress, has received 10,960 votes. Rupesh Kumar Pandey of the UML is in third place with 8,611 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting in Parsa-4, Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Tek Bahadur Shakya is leading. According to the vote counting so far, Shakya has received 24,210 votes. His nearest competitor, Ramesh Rijal of the Nepali Congress, has received 10,457 votes. UML's Zalim Mian Mansuri is in third place with 9,432 votes.
Jagat Joshi of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won by a huge margin in Kailali-3. Joshi won by a huge margin, beating his nearest rival Birman Chaudhary of the Nepali Communist Party by 8,376 votes. He got 20,359 votes, while Chaudhary of the NCP got 11,983 votes. Bhim Baduwal, considered a strong candidate of the Congress, has slipped to third place. He got 9,706 votes. Bikram Chaudhary of the Civil Liberation Party Nepal has got 6,747 votes. In this constituency, the NCP-UML has slipped to fourth place. UML candidate Gauri Shankar Chaudhary got 4,752 votes, while Birendra Bahadur Bam of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party got 20,347 votes.
In Surkhet-2, Ramesh Kumar Sapkota of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won by a wide margin. He has secured 30,326 votes. His nearest competitor, Narayan Kumar Koirala of the Nepali Congress (NC) has secured 16,392 votes.
Balendra Shah (Balen) of the National Independent Party has won from Jhapa Constituency No. 5, which has become the 'epicenter' of the House of Representatives elections, with a large margin. He defeated Oli by 49,614 votes. While Shah got 68,348 votes, Oli was limited to 18,734.
Tripti Shahi, Surkhet
Ramesh Kumar Sapkota of the National Independent Party has won the House of Representatives election from Surkhet-2. He won by securing 30,826 votes. His nearest rival, Narayan Koirala of the Nepali Congress, received 16,392 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting in Parsa Constituency No. 4, RSP candidate Tek Bahadur Shakya is leading. In the vote counting so far, Shakya has received 20,633 votes. His nearest competitor, Congress' Ramesh Rijal, has received 9,236 votes. UML's Zalim Mian Mansuri is in third place with 8,252 votes.
Manoj Poudel, Kapilvastu
Bikram Singh Thapa of the National Independent Party has made a big lead in the counting of votes for Constituency No. 2 of the House of Representatives. He is ahead by a margin of 8,525 votes. Thapa has received 24,177 votes. His nearest rival, Surendra Raj Acharya of the Nepali Congress, has received 15,652 votes. Similarly, Brijesh Kumar Gupta of the Nepali Communist Party has received 12,672 votes.
UML has added another seat from Dailekh-2. Laxmi Prasad Pokharel won with 13,889 votes. His nearest competitor Dikpal Kumar Shahi of the Nepali Congress got 9,552 votes. Bakhat Bahadur Shahi of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) got 6,797 votes, and Yogendra Bahadur Shahi of the Nepali Congress (NCP) got 3,851 votes.
Ganesh Dhimal of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won in Bara-1. Dhimal won by a margin of 25,775 votes. He secured 39,998 votes. His nearest Congress central member Shambhu Bahadur Budhatheki secured 14,223 votes. Achyut Mainali, a central member of the UML elected from this constituency in 2079 BS, came in third with 11,645 votes.
Prakash Pathak of the National Independent Party (NISP) has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Jhapa Constituency No. 3. The 37-year-old Pathak received 38,674 votes. His nearest rival, Rajendra Lingden of the RPP, received 17,294 votes.
Deepak Raj Bohara of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won in Kanchanpur-2 with 33,952 votes under the House of Representatives member election. His nearest competitor, Narayan Prakash Saud of the Nepali Congress, has received 10,827 votes.
In Rupandehi-5, Toufiq Ahmed Khan of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won. He won with 38,806 votes. Khimlal Bhattarai of the UML got 13,100 votes, Bharat Kumar Shah of the Nepali Congress got 12,624 votes, and Muhammad Vakil Musalman of the Nepali Congress got 6,176 votes.
According to the latest results, Balendra is ahead of Oli by more than three times the votes. According to the results released by the Election Commission, Balendra has received 59,568 votes while Oli has received 16,350 votes. Which is 43,218 more votes for Balendra than for Oli.
Gyan Bahadur Shahi of the RPP has won in Jumla. He received 14,816 votes. He defeated Naresh Bhandari of the NCP by a margin of 3,181 votes. Bhandari received 11,635 votes. Deep Bahadur Shahi of the Congress received 7,143 votes, Shantilal Mahat of the UML received 4,518 votes, Binita Kathayat of the RSP received 421 votes, Birkha Bahadur Rawat of the Nepal Workers and Farmers Party received 400 votes, and Manarishi Dhital of the Progressive Democratic Party received 112 votes. Out of a total of 71,739 voters, 40,839 votes were cast. There are 1,700 invalid votes.
Nitima Bhandari Karki, a candidate of the National Independent Party, has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Sarlahi Constituency No. 1.
According to the final results, Karki has won by securing 44,181 votes. Her nearest competitor, Shambhu Lal Shrestha of the Nepali Congress, has secured 7,871 votes. Manoj Kumar Debkota of the UML got 6,101 votes.
Rabin Mahato of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been elected in Sarlahi-2. He got 42,512 votes, while Mahindra Raya Yadav of the Nepali Congress (NCP) came second with 8,523 votes. Saroj Kumar of the Nepali Congress (NCP) got 7,039 votes, and Rajendra Mahato of the Rastriya Mukti Party (RSP) got 5,992 votes.
Manoj Poudel, Kapilvastu
Abhishek Pratap Shah of Nepali Congress has won the House of Representatives Member Constituency No. 3. He won by a margin of 4,645 votes. He got 23,535 votes, while his nearest rival Prakash Rajouria of the National Independent Party got 18,890 votes. This is Shah's fourth parliamentary journey. Shah was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly in 2064 and 2070. He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Kapilvastu 3 in 2074.
Kashiram Dangi, Rolpa
As the counting of votes for the House of Representatives election continues, NCP candidate and former Finance Minister Barshaman Pun is leading by a wide margin in Rolpa. He is ahead of his main rival, Dr. Sudan Kumar Wali of the Congress, by 12,220 votes.
Pun has received 22,096 votes, while Wali has received 9,876 votes. Out of the total votes cast, 14,000 votes are yet to be counted.
Balaram Thapa of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is in third place and Gokul Gharti of the UML is in fourth place. Thapa has received 8,455 votes and Gharti has received 8,007 votes. There are 10 candidates in the fray in Rolpa.
In Morang constituency number 5, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Asha Kumari Jha has won. She won with 30,434 votes. Her nearest rival Phul Kumar Lalwani of Nepali Congress (NC) got 9,415 votes. Rajkumar Yadav of JSP got 8,747 votes, Shiva Kumar Mandal of NCP got 8,623 votes, and Manoj Kumar Agrawal of UML got 6,945 votes. Yogendra Mandal of Rastriya Urjasheel Party got 4,199 votes.
Madhav Aryal, Palpa
As the counting of votes for the House of Representatives election continues, an interesting competition is seen between UML and Congress candidates in Palpa Constituency No. 1. The National Independent Party is trailing in third place.
According to the latest vote count, UML's Narayan Prasad Acharya is leading. Acharya has received 14,104 votes. He is followed by Congress' Sandeep Rana with 13,464 votes and Rashtriya Swatantra Party's Bimal Pant with 10,893 votes. Now, only 7 wards are left to count in this constituency.
Tripti Shahi, Birendranagar
Bishnu Bahadur Khadka, who became the candidate of Nepali Congress in Surkhet constituency number 1, is close to victory. With 61,927 votes counted, Khadka has received 24,694 votes. Khadka, who has maintained the lead since the beginning, is being followed by UML's Dhruba Bahadur Shahi. Shahi has received 16,589 votes.
Khadka is ahead of his nearest competitor by 8,150 votes. Tek Bahadur Singh Thakuri of the National Independent Party is in third place in this constituency. He has received 13,455 votes.
70,167 votes were cast in this constituency, out of 122,920 voters.
Bharat Kumar Swar of the Nepali Congress has won in Achham-1. Bhim Rawal of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) was defeated. Swar got 10,759 votes while Rawal got 10,233 votes. This is a small margin of votes (526). UML's Deepak Bahadur Saud, who is in third place, got 7,389 votes while Omprakash Rawal of the Nepali Congress (NCP) was limited to 1,739.
Manoj Poudel, Kapilvastu
Abhishek Pratap Shah of Nepali Congress has been increasing his lead in the counting of votes in Kapilvastu constituency no. 3. He has secured 22,226 votes, leading Prakash Rajouria of the National Independent Party by 4,545 votes. Rajouria has secured 17,681 votes. Shah has maintained his lead from the beginning. Only wards no. 10 and 11 of Shivraj Municipality in this constituency are left to be counted.
The counting of votes, which was halted for 9 and a half hours, has resumed in Dolpa. The counting of votes, which was halted since 5:30 am, has resumed after the decision was made to invalidate five ballot papers, including half-cut ballot papers, found during the counting of votes in Kaike Rural Municipality-4 of the district, the Chief Electoral Officer's Office has said.
Aash Gurung, Lamjung
Dharmaraj KC, a candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP), has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Lamjung in the election for a member of the House of Representatives. He was nominated by the RSWP for the second time and was elected as a member of the House of Representatives by defeating his nearest rival, the UML candidate, by double the votes.
He received 33,898 votes out of a total of 75,460 votes cast. Prithvi Subba Gurung of the UML received 16,876 votes.
Khadak Bahadur Budha of Nepali Congress has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives in Jajarkot. According to the final results, Budha won by a margin of 2,735 votes. Budha secured 20,142 votes. His nearest rival, Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Shakti Bahadur Basnet, secured 17,407 votes.
UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli is facing defeat in the ongoing vote counting. He is the candidate for Jhapa-5 and is trailing Balendra Shah of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) by 40,525 votes. Shah got 55,934 votes while Oli got only 15,409 votes.
The counting of votes for the House of Representatives Gorkha-1 has begun. The counting of votes has begun from Chumanubri-1. In the initial results of the 199 vote count, Sudhan Gurung of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading. Gurung has received 90 votes. Congress candidate Prem Khatri has received 47 votes, NCP's Hariraj Adhikari has received 34 votes, and UML candidate R.C. Lamichhane has received 7 votes. -Hariram Upreti, Gorkha
Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) candidate Hari Prasad Bhusal has won. He won by getting 35,023 votes. His nearest competitor, UML candidate Pitambar Bhusal, got 22,649 votes. Congress's Bishnu Prasad Khanal got 18,983 votes. NCP candidate Ram Bahadur Chauhan got 3,847 votes. There are 171,652 total voters in Arghakhanchi. Out of which 86,668 votes were cast.
Bipin Kumar Acharya, the candidate of the National Independent Party, has been elected from Dang-2 in the House of Representatives election-2082. According to the final results, Acharya has received 43,559 votes. He has defeated UML General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel by a wide margin of 28,272 votes. His nearest competitor, UML General Secretary Pokhrel, has received 15,287 votes. Similarly, Kiran Kishore Ghimire of the Nepali Congress has received 11,558 votes, while Nirmal Acharya of the Nepali Congress has received 7,083 votes. A total of 82,355 votes were cast in Dang-2.
Both the RSVP candidates have taken a wide lead in both the constituencies of Makawanpur. The RSVP candidate from Makawanpur-1, Prakash Gautam, has received 22,414 votes, while he is being followed by UML's Rameshwor Rana. He has received 4,727 votes. The Congress candidate Mahalaxmi Upadhyay Dina has received 4,320 votes. 95,310 votes have been cast in Makawanpur-1.
Similarly, the RSVP candidate from Makawanpur-2, Prashant Upreti, has received 15,314 votes. He is being followed by UML's Mahesh Bartaula. Bartaula has received 8,211 votes. The NCP's Lavsher Bista has received 7,119 votes. 91,241 votes have been cast in Makawanpur-2.
The National Independent Party candidates are increasing their lead in Constituencies 1 and 2 of Bardiya. According to the latest update, Thakur Singh Tharu has received 20,865 votes in Constituency 1. His rivals Shalikram Adhikari of UML has received 6,388 votes, Sanjay Gautam of Congress has received 3,466 votes, and Bishnu Chaudhary of NCP has received 3,177 votes. Similarly, in Constituency 2, Shreedhar Pokharel of NCP is leading with 10,285 votes. His rivals Kishore Singh Rathore of Congress has received 7,634 votes, Suresh Pantha of NCP has received 5,661 votes, and Bimala BK of UML has received 3,658 votes.
The counting of votes has begun in Sankhuwasabha after 3 days. The counting has begun today after there was a delay in bringing the ballot boxes from remote places. The counting has begun at the meeting hall of the District Coordination Committee. DSP Kumar Prasad Mainali said that there is a security arrangement including CCTV cameras and barbed wire at the counting site. 62,937 votes have been cast here. Fifteen parties and one independent are in the fray in the election.
With 14,000 votes left to be counted, UML candidate Kshitij Thebe has a wide lead. With 31,647 votes counted, he has a lead of 1,690 votes over Congress' Gajendra Prasad Tumyahang. Thebe is leading with 10,211 votes, while Congress' Tumyahang has received 8,529 votes. NCP's Khel Prasad Budhachhetri is in third place with 4,525 votes. Labor Culture Party's Santosh Rai has received 3,696 votes. National Independent Party is in fifth place. Birendra Shrestha has received 2,131 votes. Now, the entire wards of Phungling Municipality and the wards of the surrounding municipalities are yet to be counted. The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has stated that 46,474 votes were cast in the district, which has 90,327 voters.
The counting of votes is underway in Dadeldhura, which has a single constituency, after the polling was held on Thursday. As of 12 noon, 33,058 votes have been counted, with Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) candidate Tara Prasad Joshi leading. Joshi has received 12,843 votes. Congress candidate Nainsingh Mahar has received 8,404 votes. NCP candidate Mansingh Mal has received 6,202 votes, while UML's Chakra Prasad Snehi has received 2,385 votes.
National Independent Party candidate Hari Prasad Bhusal is close to victory. He has secured 32,151 votes. UML's Pitamber Bhusal secured 20,756 votes. Nepali Congress's Bishnu Prasad Khanal secured 17,314 votes. 86,668 votes were cast here. Now only the votes of Ward Nos. 7 and 8 of Panini Rural Municipality are yet to be counted.
The counting of votes for the House of Representatives Gorkha-1 has begun. The counting site has been designated in the District Coordination Committee hall, which houses the office of the Chief Election Officer. The ballot boxes of 14 centers in the northern region under Gorkha-1 arrived at the counting site only on Saturday.
The counting began after the ballot boxes of 9 polling centers in the geographically remote northern region were brought to the Gorkha district headquarters by helicopter on Friday, and 14 centers, according to the Office of the Chief Election Officer.
In Gorkha-1, Sudhan Gurung of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Hariraj Adhikari of the NCP, Prem Kumar Khatri of the Congress, and RC Lamichhane of the UML are candidates. Out of 120,525 voters in Gorkha-1, 64,050 votes have been cast.- Hariram Upreti/Gorkha
In Sindhupalchowk-1, the National Independent Party (NIP) is ahead in the vote count of four rural municipalities.
In the vote count of Bhotekoshi, Jugal, Tripurasundari and Lisankhupakhar rural municipalities, NCP's Bharat Parajuli has secured 9,275 votes.
Similarly, NCP's Madhav Sapkota has secured 7,05, NCP and Nepali Congress's Jag Bahadur Tamang has secured 5,873 votes, and UML's Saresh Nepal has secured 5,634 votes.
In Sindhupalchowk-2, Nepali Communist Party's Yubaraj Dula is leading with 5,349 votes, while Congress's Vansalal Tamang is trailing with 4,266 votes.
Jhalak Kumar Shrestha of the National Independent Party got 3,214 votes and Sher Bahadur Tamang of the UML got 2,432 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.
In the ongoing House of Representatives election in Dhankuta, CPN-UML candidate Rajendra Kumar Rai is widening his lead. According to the results so far, Rai has maintained his lead by securing 11,636 votes. Labor Culture Party candidate San Bahadur Rai is in second place with 7,716 votes. Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Dinesh Rai is in third place with 7,122 votes. On the other hand, National Independent Party (RASP) candidate Dinesh Bhandari has secured 6,616 votes. In fifth place, Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Dharmaraj Poudel has secured 1,306 votes. Ramesh Chandra Adhikari/Dhankuta
A complaint has been filed in Dolpa demanding the cancellation of the election. A complaint has been filed with the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer and the District Administration Office demanding the cancellation of the entire election in the district due to the discovery of some ballot papers with half-cuts during the counting of votes in Kaike Rural Municipality-4 and 5.
UML, Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party, and independent candidates have filed a collective complaint.
They have mentioned in the complaint that the election was rigged by the employee mechanism in the district-wide election.
In Kailali-5, RSP candidate Dr. Ananda Bahadur Chand is far ahead of his rivals. So far, when the results of 55,647 votes have been declared, Chand has received 27,077 votes, while his rival, Congress candidate Naranarayan Shah, is 17,293 votes behind him. Shah has received 9,784 votes.
Similarly, while NCP's Prem Bahadur Ale received 7064 votes, CPN-UML's Yagyaraj Dhungana received 5,019 votes.
In this area, Rastriya Prajatantra Party candidate Roshan Shahi received 1,398 votes and independent candidate Pyaralal Rana received 1,380 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting for Sarlahi-1, National Independent Party candidate Nitima Bhandari Karki has maintained a wide lead. According to the latest results, Karki has received 30,322 votes. Her nearest competitor, Shambhulal Shrestha of the Nepali Congress, has received 5,063 votes. Manoj Kumar Devkota of the UML has received 4,243 votes. Pramod Sah of the Nepali Congress has received 3,470 votes. In the vote counting so far, Karki has maintained a significant lead over her competitor. The office of the Election Officer of Constituency 1 has stated that the vote counting is ongoing.
Achuttam Lamichhane of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been elected in Nuwakot-2. He won by securing 32,054 votes. He defeated his nearest rival Jagdishwar Narsingh KC of the Nepali Congress by 16,551 votes. KC secured 15,503 votes.
Here, Keshabraj Pandey of the Nepali Congress (NCP) secured 8,228 votes.
Sushil Khadka of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won in Baglung-1. He won by securing 20,927 votes. His rival Bhim Sris of the Nepali Congress (NC) received 11,944 votes, informed Chief Election Officer Sita Devi Sharma Adhikari.
Jagadish Kharel of the National Independent Party (NIP) is increasing his lead in Dolakha. After counting of votes in four out of nine local levels, NIP's Kharel has taken the lead with 9,758 votes. CPN-UML's Parbat Gurung is trailing with 7,194 votes. Similarly, Nepal Communist Party (NCP)'s Bishal Khadka is in third place with 6,384 votes. -Kedar Shiwakoti
Former UML vice-chairman and CPN leader Bhim Rao is facing tough competition. Rawal, who is contesting from Achham-2, is facing a tough fight with UML candidate Deepak Bahadur Saud.
According to the counting of votes so far, Saud has secured 6,325 votes and Rao has secured 6,087 votes. The counting of votes is ongoing. Bharat Kumar Swar of the Nepali Congress is in third place with 5,687 votes.
The vote counting in Rukum West, which was postponed due to controversy some time ago, has resumed. Although the documents and boxes were correct, the controversy arose due to a difference in the notes during the counting process, and it has now been resolved.
Assistant Election Officer Mandira Shahi informed that there was a dispute over 164 votes due to a weakness in the counting process, but it has now been resolved and the counting process has resumed.
A while ago, there was a dispute when 164 votes were found to be more than the votes cast in Ward No. 1, 3 and 5 of Chaurjahari Municipality. - Mahesh KC
Suresh Kumar Chaudhary of the National Independent Party (NISP) has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives in Banke-1. According to the final results, he received 32,792 votes, said Election Officer Sharojanidhi Wagle. Chaudhary's rival Narayan Gaudel of the Nepali Congress received less than half, 15,301 votes. Similarly, Surya Dhakal of the CPN (UML) received 11,150 votes, said Election Officer Wagle. Rupa Gahatraj/Nepalgunj
In Surkhet constituency number-1, Bishnu Bahadur Khadka of the Nepali Congress continues to lead. He has maintained his lead since the beginning of the counting and is building a wide lead. Out of 37,513 votes counted, Khadka has received 14,565 votes. Khadka is followed by Dhruv Kumar Shahi of the UML. He has received 10,089 votes. Then, Tek Bahadur Singh of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha has received 8,587 votes. Similarly, Jeet Bahadur Rana of the Nepal Communist Party has received 1,343 votes, RPP's Rabikiran Hamal has received 466 votes, and Shram Sankranti Party's Bir Bahadur Rana has received 465 votes. According to the Returning Officer's Office, 1,379 votes have been invalidated. Trupti Shahi (Birendranagar)
Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) Central President Rabi Lamichhane was elected to the House of Representatives from Chitwan-2 on Saturday. He secured 54,402 votes. Lamichhane's closest competitor, Min Kumari Kharel of the Nepali Congress, received 14,564 votes. UML's Asmin Ghimire received 6,942 votes, and Nepali Communist Party (NCP)'s Pratap Gurung received 4,969 votes. Lamichhane was elected as an MP from this constituency for the first time in the 2079 BS election. Lamichhane was the candidate who won when the by-election was held in this constituency. This is Lamichhane's third victory from Chitwan-2 in a span of three years. Lamichhane had won in the 2079 BS election by securing 49,300 votes. His closest rival, Nepali Congress' Umesh Shrestha, received 14,988 votes, and Krishna Bhakta Pokharel, who came in third, received 14,652 votes. With his election, Lamichhane also became the Home Minister. The Supreme Court had revoked Lamichhane's MP post in Magh 2079, finding that he had not completed the process of renouncing his US citizenship and re-acquiring Nepali citizenship. Then, a by-election was held in Chitwan-2. After completing the process and acquiring citizenship, Lamichhane became a candidate in the by-election. In the by-election held in Baisakh 2080, Lamichhane won by getting 54,176 votes, more than the previous one. At that time, his closest competitor, Jeet Narayan Shrestha of the Nepali Congress, got 11,214 votes, and Ram Prasad Neupane of the UML, who was in third place, got 10,936 votes. Then, on Poush 7, 2081, Lamichhane's post was suspended after a case of cooperative fraud, organized crime, and money laundering was registered. While he was under suspension, the Genji movement took place on Bhadra 23 and 24. Due to which the then Prime Minister KP Oli resigned. The government formed thereafter dissolved the parliament, saying that it was in accordance with the spirit of the Genji movement. Due to which on Falgun 21, it was dissolved. The election has taken place. Ramesh Kumar Poudel/Chitwan
In Rukum West, with 20,741 votes counted, Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Gopal Sharma is leading. So far, Gopal has garnered 7,272 votes, while Progressive Democratic Party (PRLP) candidate Janardan Sharma is trailing him by 5,160 votes. Out of the total six municipalities in the district, the counting of votes in Athabishkot Municipality and Banfikot Municipality has been completed, and now the counting of votes in Chaurjahari Municipality has begun. According to the results, there is a difference of 2,112 votes between NCP's Gopal and PRLP's Janardan. Although Janardan had maintained an initial lead, Gopal has now overtaken him. After this, Nepali Congress's Raju KC has 4,842 votes, while Man Bahadur Shahi of the National Independent Party is in fourth place with 1,251 votes. UML candidate Nandaram Devkota, who practically made his candidacy inactive by supporting Janardan Sharma, has also received 621 votes so far, while Ujjwala Nepal Party candidate Narendra KC has received 21 votes. Eleven candidates are in the fray from Rukum West. Out of a total of 16,660 voters, a total of 62,967 votes were cast. Mahesh KC (Rukum West)
In the ongoing House of Representatives election in Dhankuta, CPN-UML candidate Rajendra Kumar Rai has maintained his lead by securing 8,761 votes, according to the results so far. Labor Culture Party candidate San Bahadur Rai is in second place with 6,874 votes. Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Dinesh Rai is in third place by securing 5,101 votes. Meanwhile, National Independent Party (RASP) candidate Dinesh Bhandari has secured 3,751 votes. Ramesh Chandra Adhikari/Dhankuta
Rubina Acharya of the National Independent Party has been elected from Morang Constituency No. 6 by securing 55,513 votes. She defeated her rival Dr. Shekhar Koirala of the Nepali Congress by a wide margin. Koirala has received only 12,850 votes. Similarly, Binod Prasad Dhakal of the CPN-UML has received 8,317 votes, while Matrika Poudel of the Shram Sanskriti Party has received 3,400 votes. Santosh Rajbanshi of the National Independent Party has already been elected in Morang 4. He defeated Nepali Congress General Secretary Guru Ghimire. While Rajbanshi was elected with 40,833 votes, General Secretary Ghimire received only 12,818 votes. Mahaprasad Khatiwada/Morang
Khagendra Sunar of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won the House of Representatives election in Banke Constituency No. 3. He defeated UML candidate Suman Malla. Sunar received 29,551 votes, while his nearest rival Malla received 19,615 votes. Similarly, Amar Singh Pun of the Nepali Congress received 13,215 votes.
In the latest vote count for Surkhet Constituency No. 2 under the House of Representatives election, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Ramesh Kumar Sapkota has maintained his lead. According to the latest update, Sapkota has received 12,638 votes. Similarly, Nepali Congress's Narayan Kumar Koirala has received 8,571 votes. There is currently a difference of 4,067 votes between them. Similarly, CPN-UML's Kulmani Devkota has received 6,827 votes, while RPP's Jhak Bahadur Malla has received 3,256 votes. The vote counting is still ongoing in Surkhet-2. Jyoti Katuwal/Surkhet
Prem Suwal of Nepal Workers and Farmers Party is trailing in Bhaktapur Constituency No. 1. Suwal, who has been trailing since the beginning, is trailing behind Rukesh Ranjit of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) by 2,445 votes as of 6 am. Ranjit has received 29,229 votes while Suwal has received 26,783 votes. Som Prasad Mishra of the Nepali Congress is in third place. He has received 3,061 votes. Suwal has been winning consistently from the constituency. In the 2079 BS election, Suwal won the election by a margin of 30,000 votes.
In the House of Representatives, the Nepali Congress has won 5 constituencies out of 26 seats. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has won 18 seats, while the CPN-UML has won only one seat. The CPN has won 2 seats. On behalf of the Congress, Basana Thapa won in Dailekh-1 by getting 12,372 votes. Tek Bahadur Gurung won in Manang-1 by getting 2,415 votes. Yogesh Thakali won in Mustang by getting 3,377 votes. Similarly, Mohan Acharya won in Rasuwa by getting 10,656 votes. Similarly, Santosh Subwa won in Tehthum. Subwa won by getting 11,561 votes.
The counting of votes has been stopped after a half-cut was found during the counting of votes in Dolpa. The counting of votes has been stopped after a half-cut was found during the counting of votes in the polling stations under Ward No. 4 and 5 of Kaike Rural Municipality of the district. CPN-UML representatives are protesting at the counting site after a half-cut was found during the counting of votes. Ramchandra Neupane/Kantipur
The second largest party in the dissolved parliament, UML, is struggling hard in this House of Representatives election. It has managed to win only one seat so far. In the 2079 House of Representatives election, it was in second place with 78 seats. According to the latest results, Mohammad Ishtiaq Rai, who joined the UML at the beginning of the election, has been elected from Banke 2. With Rai's victory, UML has opened its first account. He defeated Vivek Kumar Shrestha of the National Independent Party by getting 24,628 votes. Shrestha has got 18,682 votes. According to the ongoing vote counting, UML is leading in 13 seats. Amber Bahar Rayamajhi of Udayapur 2, Ram Chandra Mandal of Dhanusha 1, Pradeep Kumar Katwal Chhetri (KC) of Sindhuli 1, Khim Bahadur Thapa of Syangja 2, Narayan Prasad Acharya of Palpa 1, Laxmi Prasad Pokharel of Dailekh 2, Ain Bahadur Mahar of Bajhang, Yag Bahadur Bogati of Achham 2, Deepak Dhami of Doti 1 and Ganesh Singh Thagunna of Darchula are leading.
Nepali Congress' Basana Thapa has won in Dailekh-1. She has secured 12,372 votes. Thapa's closest rival, CPN-UML's Rabindra Raj Sharma, has secured 11,796 votes. Their margin of votes is 576. From here, Nandakishore Basnet of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has secured 8,151 votes. CPN's Ammar Bahadur Thapa has secured 4,256 votes. Jyoti Katuwal/Dailekh
The National Independent Party, which won 15 seats with a lead of more than 100 in the direct election, is also expected to get a significant number of votes in the proportional election. According to the preliminary vote count, the Rashtriya Swatantra Party has received 56.83 percent of the votes. Out of 39,483 votes counted, the Rashtriya Swatantra Party has received 22,442 votes. Similarly, the Nepali Congress has received 7,505 votes. It has received only 19 percent of the votes counted. Similarly, the RPP is seen in third place. The RPP has received 3,169 votes. After the RPP, the CPN-UML has received 2,990 votes. After the UML, the Shram Sanskriti Party has received votes. It has received 960 votes. The CPN-UML has received 951 votes.
In the ongoing House of Representatives election in Dhankuta, CPN-UML candidate Rajendra Kumar Rai has widened his lead by 1,370 votes.
The results so far show that UML candidate Rai has maintained his lead by securing 8,154 votes.
Shram Sanskriti Party candidate San Bahadur Rai is in second place with 6,784 votes. Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Dinesh Rai is in third place with 4,655 votes.
Meanwhile, Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) candidate Dinesh Bhandari has secured 3,157 votes. -Ramesh Chandra Adhikari
In the ongoing vote counting for Parsa Constituency No. 4, Tek Bahadur Shakya of the National Independent Party has maintained a wide lead. According to the latest results, Shakya has secured 9,549 votes. His nearest competitor, Ramesh Rijal of the Nepali Congress, has secured 3,214 votes. Jayaprakash Tharu of the Nepali Communist Party has secured 2,163 votes. In the vote counting so far, Shakya has maintained a significant lead over his competitor. The District Election Office, Parsa, has stated that the vote counting is ongoing. Shankar Acharya/Parsa
As the results of the House of Representatives election are being made public, the Rastriya Swatantra Party continues to lead in all five constituencies of Kailali. According to the latest public vote results, RSVP candidate Komal Gyawali from Kailali Constituency No. 1 is leading by a margin of 4,000 votes. She has received 19,954 votes. Her rival, Janakraj Chaudhary of the Nepali Congress, got 7,463 votes, while Ramlal Dagoura Tharu of the Nepali Communist Party got 5,842 votes. Similarly, Dwarika Prasad Neupane of the NCP got 3,606 votes and independent candidate Phaguram Chaudhary got 2,565 votes. Similarly, the RSVP continues to lead in Kailali Constituency No. 2. In this constituency, KP Khanal is ahead of his rival by 900 votes. Surya Bahadur Thapa of the CPN-UML, who is trailing him, got 1,822 votes, while Vijay Bahadur Swar of the Nepali Congress got 1,551 votes. Nanda Bahadur Saud of the Nepali Communist Party has secured 1,433 votes and Patiram Chaudhary of the Civil Liberation Party Nepal has secured 1,042 votes. In Constituency No. 3, Khemraj Koirala of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading by a margin of 2,417 votes. Birman Chaudhary of the Nepali Communist Party, who is trailing him, secured 6,809 votes, while Bikram Chaudhary of the Civil Liberation Party Nepal has secured 4,096 votes. Similarly, Bhim Baduwal of the Nepali Congress has secured 3,670 votes and Gauri Shankar Chaudhary of the CPN-UML has secured 2,546 votes. In Kailali 4, the RSS is also ahead by 2,435 votes. According to the results so far, Khemraj Koirala of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has secured 4,430 votes while Gorakh Bista of the Nepali Congress has secured 1,995 votes. Lekhraj Bhatta of the CPN-UML is trailing him with 1,676 votes and Hariram Chaudhary of the Nepali Communist Party with 673 votes. In Kailali constituency number 5, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is also leading by a wide margin. Nara Narayan Shah of the Nepali Congress, who is considered the closest rival of Ananda Bahadur Chand of the RSS, is trailing him by 7,717 votes. While Chandra received 19,940 votes, Shah received 4,223 votes. Prem Bahadur Ale of the Nepali Communist Party received 2,556 votes, Yagya Raj Dhungana of the CPN-UML received 2,483 votes, and Roshan Shahi of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party received 621 votes. Ranjana BC, Kailali.
Independent candidate Mahabir Pun's lead in Myagdi remains . Pun, who is also the outgoing Minister of Education, Science and Technology, has taken a lead by a margin of more than the votes remaining to be counted. The counting of votes for the House of Representatives member election held on Thursday is underway at the Chief Electoral Officer's office in Beni. According to the Chief Electoral Officer's office, Pun has maintained a lead with 18,847 votes in the five municipalities of the district. When the counting of votes in Dhawalagiri, Malika, Mangala, Raghuganga Rural Municipality and Beni Municipality of the district was completed, Pun had secured 11,995 more votes than his nearest competitor, Harikrishna Shrestha of the CPN (UML). Now, only 6,558 votes from Annapurna Rural Municipality remain to be counted in Myagdi. In Myagdi, which has only one constituency, 12 candidates, including independents, were in the election race, and 46,215 votes were cast out of 86,397 voters in the district.
CPN (UML) candidate Mohammad Ishtyak Rai has won the House of Representatives seat in Banke 2. According to the final results of the House of Representatives election held on Thursday, he was elected by securing 24,616 votes. His nearest rival, Bivek Kumar Shrestha of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP), secured 18,580 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. According to the final results, Sudhanshu Koirala of the Nepali Congress secured 17,585 votes.
Pukar Bam of the Nepali Congress Party has been elected in Kathmandu-4. Bam was elected to the House of Representatives by securing 29,142 votes. His nearest rival, Sachin Timalsena of the Nepali Congress, received 8,824 votes, while Rajan Bhattarai of the UML received 5,733 votes.
In Kathmandu-9, Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) candidate Dol Prasad Aryal has won the House of Representatives seat. Aryal, who is also the Vice President of RSWP and the Coordinator of the Federal Election Management Committee, has received 35,093 votes. His nearest competitor, Nanumaiya Bastola of Nepali Congress, received 5,460 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting for Parsa Constituency No. 4, Tek Bahadur Shakya of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) has maintained his lead. According to the latest results, Shakya has received 5,934 votes. His nearest competitor, Ramesh Rijal of the Nepali Congress, has received 2,139 votes. UML's Zalim Miyan Mansuri has received 1,132 votes. - Shankar Acharya
According to the latest voting results in Jhapa-5, senior leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Balendra Shah has received 28,152 votes, while UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli has received 7,393 votes. There is a difference of 2,759,000 votes between them. Similarly, Congress's Mandhara Chimaria has received 824 votes, while RPP's Laxmi Prasad Sangraula has received 662 votes.
Binod Ghimire
Dhankuta. CPN-UML candidate Rajendra Kumar Rai has taken the lead in the counting of votes for the ongoing House of Representatives election in Dhankuta. According to the results till 4 am on Saturday, Rai has reached the top position by getting 7,182 votes.
Earlier, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate San Bahadur Rai had taken the lead. He is currently in second place with 6,584 votes.
Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Dinesh Rai is in third place with 3,986 votes. National Independent Party (NISP) candidate Dinesh Bhandari has received 2,249 votes while CPN candidate Dharmaraj Poudel has received 664 votes.
In Chitwan-2, Rastriya Swatantra Party Central President Rabi Lamichhane is ahead of his nearest rival Nepali Congress's Minakumari Kharel by 27,100 votes. Lamichhane has received 37,812 votes in Chitwan-2. Minakumari Kharel of Nepali Congress, who is in second place, has received 10,712 votes. Now, only 24,911 votes are left to be counted in Chitwan-2. 62,310 votes have been counted in Chitwan-2. In the voting held on Thursday, 87,221 votes were cast in Chitwan-2.
In Myagdi, independent candidate Mahabir Pun has taken the lead by 10,142 votes. Pun has received 16,368 votes after the counting of votes in Dhawalagiri, Malika, Mangala, Beni Municipality and Ward No. 2 of Raghuganga.
His rival Harikrishna Shrestha of UML has received 6,226 votes, and Karna Bahadur Bhandari of Nepali Congress has received 4,503 votes. Arjun Thapa of Nepali Congress has received only 3,163 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting for Udayapur Constituency No. 1, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Parasmani Gelal has maintained the lead since the beginning. According to the latest details of the vote counting being conducted at Triyuga Secondary School, Gaighat, Gelal has received 4,804 votes. Similarly, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Rajesh Kumar Rai is trailing Gela with 2,098 votes, while CPN (UML) candidate Durga Kumar Thapa has received 2,128 votes. Nepali Congress's Bidur Basnet has received 1,733 votes, while Nepal Communist Party's Baldev Chaudhary is in fifth place with 1,517 votes. According to Chief Election Officer District Judge Mukesh Upadhyay, 1,062 votes out of 14,799 votes counted so far have been invalidated. The vote counting is underway at Triyuga Secondary School, Gaighat. -Rakesh Nepali
Dharan. Overtaking the candidate of the National Independent Party (RSP), who initially took the lead, Sram Sanskriti Party has taken the lead in Sunsari-1.
Harkaraj Rai of the RSP has received 3,325 votes. Tamang of the RSP has received 3,098 votes, informed Election Officer Dibyaraj Ghimire. Out of 150,393 voters in this area, 87,865 votes have been cast.
Janakpur. Manish Jha of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives in Dhanusha Constituency No. 3. According to the final results of the House of Representatives election held on Thursday, he was elected by securing 43,142 votes.
According to Returning Officer Subhash Babu Puri of the Office of the Chief Returning Officer, Bimalendra Nidhi of the Nepali Congress has secured 15,952 votes and Julikumari Mahato of the CPN (UML) has secured 9,510 votes in that constituency.
Tarkaraj Bhatta
Dadeldhura. In Dadeldhura, in the ongoing vote counting under the House of Representatives election, Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) candidate Tara Prasad Joshi is leading by 2,629 votes. Out of 19,244 votes counted so far, RSWP's Joshi has received 7,292 votes. His nearest competitor, Nepali Congress candidate Nainsingh Mahar, has received 4,663 votes.
Similarly, Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Mansingh Mal has received 3,846 votes, while CPN (UML) candidate Chakra Prasad Snehi has received 1,681 votes.
Dadeldhura has only one House of Representatives constituency and the vote counting process is ongoing.
Uttam Prasad Poudel of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) has been elected in Kaski-2 by securing four times more votes than his nearest competitor. He received 31,911 votes, while the second-placed UML candidate Rashmi Acharya received 7,493 votes.
The counting of votes for the proportional representation election for the House of Representatives held on Thursday is underway. According to the Election Commission, a total of 35,066 votes have been counted so far.
According to the results counted till 1:15 pm, the National Independent Party has received 19,582 votes. Similarly, the Nepali Congress has received 6,937 votes, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has received 2,858 votes, and the CPN (UML) has received 2,672 votes. According to the commission, the Shram Sanskriti Party has received 867 votes, the Nepali Communist Party has received 845 votes, and the Rastriya Parivartan Party has received 453 votes.
Sasmit Pokharel of the National Independent Party has been elected in Kathmandu-5. According to the final results released at 1:30 am on Saturday, Pokharel won with a huge margin. He received 30,737 votes. His nearest competitor, Pradeep Poudel of the Nepali Congress, received 9,159 votes, and Ishwor Pokharel of the UML received 4,701 votes, according to the Returning Officer's Office.
Ramchandra Neupane
Dolpa. The counting of votes in two municipalities of Upper Dolpa, located in the northern part of the Himalayan district of Dolpa, has been completed. As of 1 pm, the counting of votes in 12 polling stations of Dolpobuddha and Charkatangsong rural municipalities of the district has been completed.
According to the results, Nepali Communist Party candidate Dhan Bahadur Budha has maintained the initial lead by securing 926 votes.
Similarly, his brother Nepali Congress candidate Karna Bahadur Budha has secured 211 votes. Similarly, CPN-UML candidate Lanka Bahadur Rokaya has secured 88 votes, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Dev Singh Aidi has secured 66 votes, and Ujjaya Nepal Party candidate Dil Bahadur Bista has secured 7 votes.
Similarly, RPP candidate Hari Prasad Dangi has secured 2 votes, independent candidate Omendra Bahadur KC has secured 1 vote, and Progressive Democratic Party candidate Bikash Budha has secured 2 votes.
The counting of votes in the polling stations within Shey-Phoksundo Rural Municipality in Upper Dolpa is currently underway, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has informed.
Santosh Rajbanshi of the Nepali Congress Party (NCP) has been elected in Morang-4. According to the public vote results on Friday midnight, Rajbanshi won with 40,833 votes. His nearest rival, Gururaj Ghimire of the Nepali Congress, received 12,818 votes. Amanlal Modi of the Nepali Congress Party (NCP) received 10,762 votes, according to the Returning Officer's Office.
Dadeldhura. In the ongoing vote counting under the House of Representatives election in Dadeldhura, Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSWP) candidate Tara Prasad Joshi has widened his lead.
Out of 17,365 votes counted so far, RSWP's Joshi has received 6,598 votes. His nearest competitor, Nepali Congress candidate Nainsingh Mahar, has received 3,963 votes. There is currently a gap of 2,635 votes between Joshi and Mahar.
Similarly, Nepal Communist Party candidate Mansingh Mal has received 3,674 votes, while CPN (UML) candidate Chakra Prasad Snehi has received 1,589 votes.
Ramchandra Neupane
Dolpa. The counting of votes is underway in the Himalayan district of Dolpa under the election for members of the House of Representatives. The results of all 6 polling stations in Dolpobuddha Rural Municipality have been made public.
According to the details received, out of the 761 votes cast in all the polling stations in the municipality so far, 738 votes were valid and 23 votes were invalid.
Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Dhan Bahadur Budha (Tara) has secured an initial lead by securing 517 votes. Similarly, CPN-UML candidate Lanka Bahadur Rokaya (Surya) has secured 48 votes, Nepali Congress candidate Karna Bahadur Budha (Rukh) has secured 109 votes, and National Independent Party candidate Dev Singh Aidee (Ghanti) has secured 59 votes, and Progressive Democratic Party candidate Bikash Budha has secured 2 votes.
Similarly, Ujjaya Nepal Party candidate Dil Bahadur Bista received 2 votes and independent candidate Omendra Bahadur KC received 1 vote.
People's representatives have boycotted the counting of votes at the counting site of Bardiya Constituency No. 2, saying that 100 invalid votes were hidden in envelopes. Rather than the employees intentionally hiding them, the counting of votes was postponed later if the employee who was counting did whatever he wanted, said NCP candidate Suresh Pantha. In this regard, Election Officer Govinda Ghimire said that the envelopes were mistakenly used by the employee assigned to count the votes, Basanta Malla. People's representatives said that an investigation should be conducted based on the CCTV footage and the truth should be made public. -Kamal Panthi/Bardiya
Ash Gurung
Lamjung. The Nepali Congress has emerged as the first party in Manang under the proportional voting results of the 2082 House of Representatives election.
Out of a total of 3,163 votes cast, the Congress has garnered 1,377 votes. The National Independent Party has garnered 752 votes. The CPN (UML) has garnered 571 votes. The Nepali Communist Party has garnered 226 votes.
Similarly, the Mongol National Organization has garnered 11 votes, the RPP has garnered 10 votes, the Janamat has garnered 5 votes, the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal, the Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party, and the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party have garnered 1 vote each. The Loktantrik Samajwadi Party Nepal, the Rastriya Janamorcha, and the Nepal Loktantrik Party have not garnered a single vote.
Ash Gurung
Lamjung. In Lamjung, RSVP candidate Dharmaraj KC has been widening the gap with the Congress-UML candidate.
KC, who was ahead in the vote count of Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality, Kwholasothar Rural Municipality and Madhya Nepal Municipality, has increased the gap in his hometown.
Hometown Sundarbazar Municipality Ward No. 1 to 4. Out of 25,058 votes counted, KC has received 9,669 votes. Congress candidate Gam Prasad Gurung has received 6,702 votes and UML candidate Prithvi Subba Gurung has received 6,226 votes. NCP candidate Harijang Tamang has received 1,12 votes.
Rakesh Nepali
In Udayapur-2, CPN-UML candidate Ambar Bahadur Rayamajhi has taken the lead, surpassing Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Balraj Rai. While Rai with the Mato election symbol got 1,254 votes, Rayamajhi with the Surya election symbol got 1,362 votes. In third place, Surya Tamang of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) got 1,168 votes, while Nepali Communist Party candidate Suresh Kumar Rai got 754 votes.
Nepali Congress candidate Ram Kumar Rai is in fifth place with 702 votes. The counting of votes for Udayapur-2 is being done at Triveni Maabi in Katari. Election Officer Lok Bahadur Katuwal said that there are 3 rural municipalities and one municipality here, and the counting of votes for Rautamai rural municipality is currently underway.
In Bajura, the counting of votes began at 7 pm on Friday and Janakraj Giri, the Congress candidate, has maintained the lead with 492 votes. He is followed by Lal Bahadur Thapa of UML with 470 votes.
Out of 1,195 votes counted, Prakash Shah of Nepali Communist Party got 127 votes and Hemraj Thapa of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh got 83 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting in Dadeldhura, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Tara Prasad Joshi has maintained the lead with 5,268 votes. Nepali Congress candidate Nainsingh Mahar has received 3,195 votes. Nepal Communist Party's Mansingh Mal has received 3,059 votes and UML's Chakra Prasad Snehi has received 1,337 votes.
Shankar Acharya
Parsa – In the ongoing vote counting for Parsa Constituency No. 2, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Sushil Kumar Kanu has maintained a wide lead. According to the latest results, Kanu has secured 12,205 votes. His nearest competitor, Nepali Congress' Ajay Kumar Chaurasia, has secured 4,855 votes. CPN-UML's Rima Kumari Yadav has secured 4,269 votes. In the vote counting so far, Kanu has maintained a clear lead over his competitor.
Amrita Anmol
Butwal. CPN-UML Vice-President Bishnu Prasad Poudel is trailing behind the RSP candidate by 25,339 votes.
The lead of National Independent Party candidate Sulabh Kharel is widening in Rupandehi constituency no. 2. According to the results so far, RSP's Kharel has secured 32,188 votes. UML's Poudel has secured a total of 6,849 votes. Poudel, who is contesting the election for the fifth time, is so far behind after counting about 50 percent of the votes.
Nepali Congress's Chunna Prasad Poudel has 4,694 votes. CPN's Subhash Pandey Bishwadeep has secured 779 votes.
86,510 votes were cast in Rupandehi 2. So far, 47,870 votes have been counted.
DB Budha
Jumla. The counting of votes in Kanakasundari, Sinja and Hima rural municipalities in Jumla's Sija area has been completed. Gyan Bahadur Shahi took the lead in all three municipalities. Out of the 13,339 votes he cast in Sinja area, Shahi received 6,738 votes.
His nearest rival, Naresh Bhandari of the NCP, received 2,956 votes. Bhandari is 3,782 votes behind Shahi. Deep Bahadur Shahi of the Congress has received 1,884 votes. Hima rural municipality is the home municipality of Shahi of the Congress. But Gyan Bahadur Shahi took the lead in this municipality too.
UML's Shantilal Mahat received 937 votes, NEMKIPA's Birkha Bahadur Rawat received 171 votes, RSP's Binita Kathayat received 91 votes, Pralopa's Manarishi Dhital received 71 votes, CPN-Maoist's Birkha Bahadur Shahi received 44 votes, Nepal Janata Party's Ranil Bikram Shahi received 17 votes and independent candidate Bhakta Bahadur Rawal received 1 vote.
In the ongoing vote counting in Parsa-4, National Independent Party candidate Tek Bahadur Shakya has maintained a wide lead. According to the latest results, Shakya has received 4,717 votes. His nearest competitor, Ramesh Rijal of the Nepali Congress, has received 1,472 votes. Jayaprakash Tharu of the Nepali Communist Party has received 848 votes.
In the vote counting so far, Shakya has maintained a clear lead over his competitor. The District Election Office, Parsa, has stated that the vote counting is ongoing.
There is a tight competition between the CPN-UML and the Nepali Congress in Jajarkot. According to the preliminary results of the ongoing vote counting, UML candidate Dambar Bahadur Singh has secured the lead with 6,253 votes in the three municipalities. Khadga Bahadur Budha of the Nepali Congress, who took the initial lead, is in second place with 6,164 votes. Similarly, Shakti Bahadur Basnet of the CPN is in third place with 4,646 votes. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has secured 504 votes. -Jyoti Katuwal
Representatives of the Congress and UML have left the counting site in Gorkha-2. The representatives left saying they would discuss with the candidate after a ballot paper was found without the officer's signature. Election Officer Mohan Velwase informed that efforts are being made to reach an understanding to continue the counting. -Hariram Upreti, Gorkha
Laxmi Gautam
Panchthar. In Panchthar, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Hastraj Sherma (Brabim) has increased his lead by increasing his margin.
He has received 2,600 votes from 6,422 votes from Wards 1 to 6 of Miklajung Rural Municipality.
Similarly, Harka Bahadur Nembang Mixo of the Nepali Communist Party is in second place with 1,385 votes.
Similarly, Aindra Sundar Nembang of the CPN-UML is in third place with 1,055 votes, while Narendra Kumar Kerung of the Nepali Congress is in fourth place with 960 votes.
After counting of votes in three local levels in Doti, UML candidate Deepak Bahadur Dhami has maintained his lead. According to the latest count, Dhami has received 4,876 votes. Bharat Bahadur Khadka of the Nepali Congress has received 3,928 votes. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Narendra Khadka has received 2,840 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting for Parsa Constituency No. 1, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Buddhi Prasad Pant has maintained a wide lead. In the latest vote counting, Pant has received 8,043 votes. His nearest competitor, Pradeep Yadav of CPN-UML, has received 4,247 votes. Anil Kumar Ruganta of Nepali Congress has received 3,565 votes.
The counting of votes in Gorkha-2 has been stopped. There was a dispute in the counting after it was found that one of the ballot papers did not have the signature of the polling officer. Discussions are currently underway to continue the counting. -Hariram Upreti, Gorkha
Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Hastraj Sherma has been increasing his lead in the district. He has received 2,431 votes out of 6,422 votes from wards 1 to 5 of Miklajung Rural Municipality. Similarly, Harka Bahadur Nembang of the Nepali Communist Party is in second place with 1,193 votes. Earlier, he was in fourth place.
National Independent Party candidate Ganesh Parajuli has won in Kathmandu constituency number 7.
According to the Election Commission, he received 27,805 votes. This is Parajuli's second victory in the constituency. He was previously elected in the 2079 election.
His rival Pramodahari Guragain of the Nepali Congress got 3,982 votes. Basanta Prasad Manandhar of the Nepal Communist Party received 3,667 votes. Prakash Shrestha of the UML came fourth with 3,544 votes.
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) candidate Dipendra Rokaya has taken an initial lead in Humla. Rokaya has received 404 votes in the initial counting.
With 814 votes counted, UML's Phadera is in second place. Phadera got 233 votes while Congress' Jayapati Rokaya got 166 votes. Similarly, National Independent Party (NIS) candidate Tashi Lhajom received only 4 votes.
- Trupti Shahi
Birendranagar. The National Independent Party (NISP) has taken the lead in Surkhet constituency number-2. UML took the lead in the initial phase, but now NISP is leading here.
NISP's Ramesh Kumar Sapkota has taken the lead by getting 4,984 votes. He is currently being followed by Congress' Narayan Kumar Koirala. He has received 3,924 votes. UML's Kulmani Devkota has received 3,657 votes.
Similarly, Nepali Communist Party's Jhak Bahadur Malla has received 1,738 votes.
Counting has been halted in Mahottari-4. The counting was halted after parties left the counting center raising various issues. Election Officer Narayan Prasad Chapagain said that they are currently in discussions after some party representatives left. Party representatives have responded by boycotting the counting because the size of the ballot papers was found to be different, signatures were found in some places, and other problems were found in others.
The counting of votes has begun in the Himalayan district of Dolpa. As per the decision of the all-party meeting held in the district, the counting of votes has begun at 9:45 am, the Chief Electoral Officer's office has informed. In the polling held on Thursday, 16,041 votes were cast in the district. There were 24,115 voters in the district. The counting of votes has begun from wards 1, 2 and 3 of Dolpo Buddha Rural Municipality.
According to the counting of votes in three constituencies of Banke, the candidates of the Rastriya Swatantra Party have taken the lead in two constituencies. In Banke-1, Suresh Kumar Chaudhary of the Rastriya Swatantra Party has taken the lead. He is leading by three times the votes, securing 15,049 votes. Similarly, Surya Dhakal of the UML has secured 3,758 votes. Narayan Prasad Gaudel of the Nepali Congress has secured 5,434 votes.
Similarly, in Banke-2, UML candidate Mohammad Istiyak Rai has taken the lead by securing 8,627 votes. Sudansu Koirala of the Nepali Congress has secured 6,881 votes. Bivek Shrestha of the Rastriya Swatantra Party has secured 5,476 votes. Similarly, in Banke-3, Khagendra Sunar of the Rastriya Swatantra Party has increased his lead by securing 11,811 votes. Similarly, Amar Singh Pun of the Nepali Congress has secured 4,078 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting in Doti, UML candidate Deepak Bahadur Dhami has maintained his lead. According to the latest count, Dhami has received 4,211 votes. He is followed by Congress candidate Bharat Bahadur Khadka who has received 3,239 votes. Similarly, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Narendra Khadka, who is in third place, has received 2,569 votes.
In Bajura, the counting of votes began on Friday evening, with Congress candidate Janakraj Giri taking the initial lead. Giri received 492 votes, while Lal Bahadur Thapa of the CPN-UML received 470 votes, Prakash Bahadur Shah of the CPN-UML received 127 votes, and Hemraj Thapa of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) received 83 votes.
The counting of votes is underway in Kanchanpur-3 under the House of Representatives member election. So far, 11,306 votes have been counted, of which 10,346 are valid votes and 960 are invalid votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. According to the details of the valid votes, Gyanendra Singh Mahata of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has received 4,731 votes, while Hari Prasad Bohara of the Nepali Congress has received 2,036 votes. Deepak Prakash Bhatta of the UML has received 2,09 votes, while Man Bahadur Sunar of the NCP has received 957 votes.
Purna Bahadur Chand of the RPP has received 391 votes, while Bhim Bahadur Kumal of the Ujjaya Nepal Party has received 67 votes, Ganga Dutta Joshi of the Shram Sanskriti Party has received 63 votes, and Bishnu Prakash Upadhyay of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has received 28 votes. Minu Giri of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party has received 20 votes.
Similarly, Lal Bahadur Kunwar of the National Janamorcha received 11 votes, Laxmi Kumari Bista Bhatta of the Aam Janata Party (single election symbol) received 9 votes, Karna Bahadur Chand of the Nepal Communist Party (United) received 8 votes, independent candidate Harka Bahadur Air received 5 votes, Lokraj Bhatta of the National Liberation Party Nepal (single election symbol) received 4 votes, independent candidate Thaneshwor Lekhak received 4 votes, independent candidate Bir Singh Chhetri received 3 votes and Kiran Thapa of the Miteri Party Nepal received 0 votes.
The lead of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) continues in Kailali constituency number 1. With 19,029 votes counted, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Komal Gyawali has received 5,177 votes. Janakraj Chaudhary of the Nepali Congress has received 4,046 votes.
Nepali Communist Party's Ramlal Dangaura Tharu has received 2,628 votes and UML candidate Dwarika Prasad Neupane has received 1,757 votes.
Jhapa-5's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Balendra Shah is maintaining a steady lead. Out of 22,691 votes counted so far, he is leading with 15,169 votes. Former Prime Minister and UML candidate KP Sharma Oli has secured 3,344 votes, while Shram Sanskriti Party has secured 1,607 votes.
The National Independent Party (NIP) is leading in all three constituencies of Dang in the House of Representatives elections. NIP candidates in all constituencies are ahead of their main rivals by more than double the votes.
In Parsa-2, Sushil Kumar Kanu of the Nepali Congress has taken a wide lead. According to the latest results, Kanu has received 8,019 votes. His nearest competitor, Ajay Kumar Chaurasia of the Nepali Congress, has received 3,346 votes. Rima Kumari Yadav of the Nepali Congress has received 3,128 votes.
The counting of votes in Bajura has begun at 7 pm on Friday. The Chief Electoral Officer's Office, Bajura, has stated that 51.66 percent or 45,030 votes were cast out of 87,861 voters. There are eight candidates in Bajura, which has one constituency, including seven political parties and one independent.
The lead of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate in all three constituencies in Kanchanpur is intact. The leading candidates have maintained their lead since the counting of votes began. In Kanchanpur-1, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh candidate Janak Singh Dhami has secured 5,091 votes, while UML's Tarlama Tamang is trailing with 2,061 votes. NCP candidate Bina Magar has secured 2,304 votes, and Congress's Gopi Prasad Upadhyay has secured 1,546 votes.
In Kanchanpur-2, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Deepak Bohara has secured 9,090 votes, widening his lead. He is being followed by Congress' NP Savad with 2,915 votes. NCP's Madhav Pant has secured 1,095 votes, while UML's Bachan Bahadur Singh has secured 1,832 votes.
In Kanchanpur-3, Gyanendra Singh Mahata of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is also leading with 3,425 votes. He is followed by Hari Bohara of the Nepali Congress with 1,495 votes. Deepak Prakash Bhatta of the UML has got 1,433 votes, while Man Bahadur Sunar of the Nepali Congress has got 786 votes.
UML candidate Deepak Bahadur Dhami has maintained his lead in the ongoing vote counting in Doti. According to the latest count, Dhami has received 2,711 votes. He is followed by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Narendra Khadka. Khadka has so far received 1,737 votes. In third place is Congress candidate Bharat Bahadur Khadka with 1,720 votes.
In Kathmandu-7, RSP candidate Ganesh Parajuli is close to victory. Out of 34,962 votes, Parajuli got 23,313 votes while his rival UML candidate got 3,416 votes. Congress candidate Pramodahari Guragai got 3,333 votes and NCP candidate Basanta Prasad Manandhar got 2,908 votes.
In Lamjung, RSP candidate Dharmaraj KC has maintained his lead. By the time the counting of votes in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality, Kwola Sothar Rural Municipality and Madhya Nepal Municipality-1 to 5 was completed, KC had received 5,067 votes. KC, who came first in Dudhpokhari, had dropped to third place when the votes of Kwola Sothar Rural Municipality were counted. He moved up after reaching Madhya Nepal.
UML candidate Prithvi Subba Gurung is in second place. He came first after reaching Kwola Sothar and received 4,244 votes. Congress candidate Gam Prasad Gurung received 4,072 votes. NCP candidate Harijang Tamang received 574 votes. There were a total of 137,124 voters in Lamjung. According to the Central Election Office, 75,225 votes were cast in 193 polling stations, including one temporary one out of 130 polling stations.
In Jumla, RPP's Gyan Bahadur Shahi has maintained his lead. Out of 9,509 votes counted, he has received 5,162 votes. His nearest rival, NCP's Naresh Bhandari, has received 2,197 votes. Gyan Bahadur is ahead of NCP's Naresh by 2,965 votes.
So far, the counting of votes has been done in Kanakasundari and Sinja rural municipalities of the district. Sinja rural municipality is the home municipality of Gyan Bahadur Shahi. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Nepali Congress's Deep Bahadur Shahi has received 1,18 votes. UML's Shantilal Mahat has received 556 votes, RPP's Binita Kathayat has received 70 votes, and Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party's Manarishi Dhital has received 69 votes.
Birkha Bahadur Rawat of NCP got 117 votes, Birkha Bahadur Shahi of NCP-Maoist got 12 votes, Ranil Bikram Shahi of Nepal Janata Party got 8 votes and independent candidate Bhakta Bahadur Rawal got 1 vote. There were 71,839 voters in Jumla, out of which 40,897 votes were cast.
The counting of votes in the Himalayan district of Dolpa will begin at 9 pm on Friday. The counting of votes will begin at 9 pm as per the decision of the recently concluded all-party meeting, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has informed. 16,041 votes were cast in the district in the voting held on Thursday.
According to the results of the counting of votes in the House of Representatives election in Jajarkot district, as of 7:20 am, Congress candidate Khadak Bahadur Budha has taken the lead by getting 3,950 votes.
According to Assistant Election Officer Dharma Bahadur Budha, CPN-UML candidate Dambar Bahadur Singh has received 3,290 votes.
Nepali Communist Party candidate Shakti Bahadur Basnet is in third place with 2,741 votes, while Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh candidate Raghav Karki has received 381 votes. The counting of votes in Shivalaya Rural Municipality and Junichale Rural Municipality has been completed. The counting of votes in three municipalities and two rural municipalities is still pending. In Jajarkot, 60,567 votes were cast out of a total of 16,092 voters.- Jyoti Katuwal
As the preliminary results of the election held on Thursday came in, the National Independent Party candidate has taken the lead in both constituencies of Baglung. The candidates of the Congress and the UML are trailing.
Parsa Constituency No. 3: In the ongoing vote counting, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Ramakant Prasad Chaurasia has maintained his lead. According to the latest results, Chaurasia has secured 3,458 votes. His nearest competitor, Surendra Prasad Chaudhary of Nepali Congress, has secured 1,650 votes. Rupesh Kumar Pandey of CPN-UML has secured 1,477 votes. – Shankar Acharya
Congress leader Shekhar Koirala, who is running in Morang-6, is trailing by a large margin. He is trailed by Rubina Acharya of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP). While Acharya received 18,281 votes, Koirala received only 4,221 votes. Koirala is 14,600 votes behind Acharya.
In third place is UML's Binod Prasad Dhakal. He received 3,163 votes. Koira had won the 2079 election by getting 35,213 votes. He defeated UML's Lalbabu Pandit. Pandit had received 22,929 votes.
In Jhapa-5, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Balendra Shah has maintained his lead with almost five times more votes than UML candidate KP Sharma Oli. Out of 20,444 votes counted, Oli has received 3,011 votes while Balendra Shah has received 13,654 votes. Similarly, Congress candidate Mandhara Chimaria has received 403 votes, while NCP candidate Ranjit Tamang has received 370 votes. Here, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Samir Tamang has received 1,517 votes.
Live counting is underway in both areas of Kavre. So far, the counting of votes has been completed in Dhulikhel Municipality Wards No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Constituency No. 2, and Wards No. 1, 2, 3, 11 and 12 of Panauti Municipality.
2 As the counting of votes in the municipality has been completed, RSVP candidate Badan Kumar Bhandari has widened his lead. He is now trailing UML candidate Ashok Kumar Byanju by 5,706 votes. While Bhandari received 9,855 votes, Byanju has received 4,149 votes. Similarly, Madhu Prasad Acharya of the Nepali Congress has received 2,809 votes and Basundhara Humagain of the Nepali Congress has received 1,268 votes. Under Constituency No. 2, the counting of votes is currently underway in Panchkhal Municipality-1 to 4.
An all-party meeting has begun in the Himalayan district of Dolpa. An all-party meeting has been held for the counting of votes after the transportation of ballot boxes from 70 polling stations across the district was completed. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, the counting of votes will begin today after the all-party meeting.
RPP candidate Gyan Bahadur Shahi has received a huge vote in his own village. Out of 1,562 votes counted from Sinja Rural Municipality-3 Pingi Village, Shahi received 991 votes. Out of 7,983 votes counted, his total votes reached 4,367. Shahi is ahead by 2,530 votes.
NCP candidate Naresh Bhandari is in second place with 1,837 votes. Congress candidate Deep Bahadur Shahi has received 929 votes. Among other contestants, Shantilal Mahat has received 420 votes, Binita Kathayat has received 58 votes. In addition, the Election Office has stated that 256 votes have been invalidated. Madal has received 65 votes, Aankh has received 68 votes, Gulaf Phul 12, and Kamal Phul has received 6 votes.
The candidates of the National Independent Party (NIP) have maintained a huge lead in all four constituencies of Bara. They have been leading since the beginning of the counting of votes. According to the information given by the Office of the Returning Officer, in Constituency No. 1, NIP candidate Ganesh Dhimal has received 11,044 votes. His nearest rival Shambhu Bahadur Budhathoki of the Nepali Congress has received 2,732 votes, while Achyut Mainali of the UML has received 3,115 votes. In Constituency No. 2, NIP candidate Chandan Kumar Singh has received 2,364 votes. His rival Balbir Chaudhary of the UML has received 914 votes, while Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal candidate Ramkishore Yadav has received 850 votes.
In Constituency No. 3, NIP candidate Engineer Arvind Sah has taken the lead with a huge margin of 18,139 votes. His nearest competitor, Farmullah Mansur of the Nepali Congress, has received 4,562 votes. Similarly, in Constituency No. 4, RSP candidate Rahbar Ansari is leading by 10,918 votes. His nearest rival, Kisan Shrestha of the UML, has received 2,416 votes.
An all-party meeting has been held in Darchula after the ballot boxes were transported by helicopter. The meeting has decided to count the votes from 7 pm today. According to Chief Election Officer Bhuwan Giri, all preparations for the counting have been completed after the all-party meeting. The meeting, held in the presence of representatives of political parties, candidates and stakeholders, agreed to proceed with the counting process in an orderly manner. In the voting held yesterday, 53.76 percent of the votes were cast in Darchula. 49,968 votes were cast here. The collection of ballot boxes from across the district has been completed and they have been placed at the counting site Chief District Officer Anil Poudel said.
In Rolpa, NCP candidate Barshaman Pun is leading by increasing the margin. Pun, who is also a former finance minister, is ahead of Congress candidate Dr. Sudan Kumar Wali by 1,104 votes. Out of the 4,120 votes counted so far, Pun has secured 1,749 votes. Pun, who was at the counting site, said that the votes were as expected.
Congress's Dr. Wali secured 645 votes, while UML's Gokul Prasad Gharti secured 576 votes. Votes from Ward No. 3 and 7 of Runtigadhi, which was last counted, have been counted. Thabang's vote was counted in the first phase.
The RSVP candidates have maintained their lead in all four constituencies of Siraha. As the counting of votes continues in all four constituencies, the RSVP candidates have been in the lead since the beginning. According to the latest results, in Siraha-1, RSVP candidate Bablu Gupta got 1,599 votes, while Congress' Ram Sundar Chaudhary got 356 and UML's Ramashankar Yadav got 158 votes.
In Siraha-2, RSVP candidate Shiva Yadav got 3,951 votes, while Congress' Ram Chandra Yadav is trailing him with 1,112 votes. Here, Janata Samajwadi Party, Nepal's Sanjeev Kumar Yadav got 697 votes, while CPN's Muktinarayan Singh got 162 votes. In Siraha-3, RSVP candidate Shambhu Kumar Yadav has so far got 1,177 votes. Similarly, Bishwanath Sah of the NCP has received 833 votes, Lilanath Shrestha of the UML has received 778 votes, Aseshwor Yadav of the JSP has received 686 votes and Subhash Chandra Yadav of the Congress has received 436 votes.
In Siraha-4, Tapeshwor Yadav of the RSP has maintained his lead by getting 4,355 votes. Here, Ajay Shankar Nayak of the NCP has received 1,140 votes, while Birendra Prasad Mahato of the Janmat Party is in third place by getting 889 votes. Similarly, Chandrakalakumari Yadav of the Congress has received 710 votes, Dharmanath Sah of the UML has received 508 votes and Rajkishore Yadav of the JSP has received 541 votes.
In Jhapa-5, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Balendra Shah has maintained his lead with 5 times more votes than UML candidate KP Sharma Oli. When 15,740 votes were counted, Oli received 2,205 votes while Balendra received 10,466 votes. Thus, Congress candidate Mandhara Chimaria received 297 votes, while NCP candidate Ranjit Tamang received 222 votes. Here, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Samir Tamang received 1,357 votes.
According to the preliminary results released in Okhaldhunga under the House of Representatives member election, UML has taken the lead. UML's Asmita Thapa has received 760 votes, while RSP's Bishwonath Pokharel has received 588 votes. Congress's Kumar Luintel has received 492 votes, and NCP's Ambir Babu Gurung has received 133 votes. - Bhanubhakta Niraula
An army helicopter that landed in Pokhara due to bad weather has flown to Gorkha. On Friday afternoon, a helicopter carrying ballot boxes from two polling stations in Chumnubri-1 in northern Gorkha landed in Pokhara. The helicopter that took off from Pokhara landed in Gorkha shortly after, said DSP Rajkuar Shrestha of the District Police Office, Gorkha. Out of 23 in Gorkha, only 9 ballot boxes from the northern region have been transported. Ballot boxes from 14 more centers are yet to be brought. – Hariram Upreti/Gorkha
NCP candidate Barshaman Pun has maintained his lead in Rolpa. In Rolpa, which has only one constituency, Pun is ahead of CPN-Maoist candidate Chudamani Wali by a margin of 912 votes. Pun has received 1,476 votes out of 3,242 votes counted so far. CPN-Maoist candidate Chudamani Wali, who is following him, has received 564 votes. Similarly, UML candidate Gokul Prasad Gharti has received 430 votes, Congress candidate Dr. Sudan Kumar Wali has received 408 votes, and RSP candidate Balram Thapa has received 154 votes.
Mongol National Organization candidate Kumar Gharti Magar has received 42 votes, Rastriya Janamorcha candidate Mekh Bahadur Bista has received 25 votes, National Republic Nepal candidate Man Bahadur Gharti Magar has received 18 votes, RPP candidate Amar Bahadur Thapa has received 12 votes, and Aam Janata Party candidate Dil Bahadur Kami has received 9 votes. So far, 104 votes have been invalidated, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.
In Baitadi, Harimohan Bhandari of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has taken the lead with 1,025 votes counted. He has received 368 votes. Chatur Bahadur Chand of the Congress has received 258 votes, Damodar Bhandari of the UML has received 187 votes, Parmananda Bhatta of the CPN (Maoist) has received 114 votes, and Bhupen Chand of the RPP has received 10 votes. Nawaraj Koirala of the Nepal Workers and Farmers Party has received 2 votes, Gajendra Raj Pandey of the Shram Sanskrit Party has received 1 vote, Ram Bahadur Kunwar of the CPN (Maoist) has received 9 votes, and Jayaprakash Pant of the Swatantra has received 1 vote. So far, 75 votes have been invalidated. - Mohan Chand
The counting of votes in Rautahat Constituency No. 2, which was suspended due to controversy, began on Friday afternoon.
The counting of votes was stopped after Nepali Communist Party candidate Kiran Sah raised a dispute, alleging that the voting held on Thursday was rigged. On Friday, the local administration tried to reach a consensus, but it was not successful. Chief District Officer Dinesh Sagar Bhusal said that the counting of votes began with an all-party consensus after all the candidates except candidate Sah sat down. -Shiv Puri/Rautahat
In Bhojpur, Shram Sanskriti's Dhruvraj Rai has taken the initial lead. He has received 467 votes. He is followed by UML's Sherdhan Rai. Sherdhan has received 460 votes. Nepali Congress's Balkrishna Thapa is in third place with 370 votes and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sansthan's Ramesh Thapa is in fourth place with 271 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting of some wards of Mahabharat Rural Municipality under Kavre-1, NCP candidate Dinanath Gautam has taken an initial lead. When the results of Mahabharat Rural Municipality-1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 were announced, Gautam maintained a significant lead over the competing candidates. He has received 2158 votes. The Congress is in second place here with 1230 votes. UML has received 605 votes, and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has received 169 votes. The counting of votes in other wards of Mahabharat Rural Municipality is ongoing, according to the Returning Officer's Office.
In Manang, Congress candidate Tek Bahadur Gurung is close to victory. With 2,019 votes counted, Gurung has received 1,711 votes, while NCP candidate Yashoda Gurung Subedi has received 269 votes and Mongol National Organization's Ram Bahadur Ghale has received 6 votes. In Manang, 31 votes have been invalidated with 2,019 votes counted so far.
The counting of votes in Bajura is scheduled to begin at 7 pm on Friday. The counting could not begin due to delays in transporting ballot boxes from the polling station to the district headquarters. The delays occurred while transporting ballot boxes from Himali Rural Municipality and other remote centers by helicopter on Thursday and Friday morning.
In the initial vote count of Pyuthan, Dr. Govinda Raj Pokharel of the Nepali Congress has taken the lead. Pokharel has secured 2,933 votes out of 7,719 votes counted. He is trailing behind RSP candidate Sushant Baidik with 2,247 votes. NCP's Krishnadhwaj Khadka has secured 561 votes, Rastriya Janamorcha's Tilak Bahadur GC has secured 698 votes, and UML's Surya Bahadur Thapa has secured 814 votes.
A Nepali Army helicopter carrying ballot boxes from North Gorkha has landed in Pokhara due to bad weather. The helicopter carrying ballot boxes from Samdo and Gaurishankar Basic Schools in Chumanubri-1 has landed in Pokhara. Out of 23 polling stations in North Gorkha, ballot boxes from 7 have been brought to Gorkha. Ballot boxes from 14 polling stations in the northern region are yet to be brought. Due to bad weather, the transportation of ballot boxes from those polling stations has been affected. -Hariram Upreti/Gorkha
In Makawanpur-2, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Prashant Upreti has taken the lead. When 3,510 votes were counted in wards 8 and 9 of Manahari Rural Municipality, Upreti trailed Nepali Congress's Buddha Lama by about 1,000 votes. Upreti received 1,630 votes, while Lama received 614 votes. UML's Mahesh Bartaula received 509 votes. Nepali Communist Party's Lavsher Bista received 272 votes.
In Gorkha-2, out of 1,340 votes counted, the RSVP received 791 votes, the NCP 229, the Congress 137, and the UML 79. The candidates here are Kavindra Burlakoti of the RSVP, Lekhnath Neupane of the NCP, Prakash Chandra Dawadi of the Congress, and Milan Gurung of the UML.
The National Independent Party has also taken an early lead in Makawanpur Constituency No. 1 under the House of Representatives election. Out of 3,448 votes counted in Ward No. 2 of Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City, Prakash Gautam of the National Independent Party has received 1,847 votes.
Similarly, Mahalaxmi Upadhyay Dina of the Nepali Congress has received 654 votes and Rameshwor Rana of the UML has received 285 votes. Similarly, Nepali Communist Party candidate Vijay Gautam has received 95 votes. This is the ward of Congress candidate Dina.- Subash Bidari/Makawanpur
In Makawanpur-1 too, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has taken an early lead. Out of 3,448 votes counted in Ward No. 2 of Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City, Prakash Gautam of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has received 1,847 votes. Similarly, Mahalaxmi Upadhyay Dina of the Congress has received 654 votes and Rameshwar Rana of the CPN-UML has received 285 votes. Similarly, Nepali Communist Party candidate Vijay Gautam has received 95 votes. This is the ward of Congress candidate Dina.
The Shram Sanskriti Party has maintained its lead in two House of Representatives constituencies in Koshi Province. According to preliminary results, Brabim Sherma is leading in Panchthar and San Bahadur Rai in Dhankuta. While Sherma got 303 votes, Rai got 1,590 votes in Dhankuta. Sherma is being followed by Narendra Kumar Kerung of the Nepali Congress and Rajendra Rai of UML is following Rai in Dhankuta. Meanwhile, Goma Tamang of the National Independent Party is leading in Sunsari 1, which is considered the area of influence of party chairman Hark Sampang. He is second.
In Udayapur-1, the RSVP is leading, while in Udayapur-2, the initial results show that the Shram Sanskriti Party is leading. UML, Congress and NCP are trailing them. In Udayapur-1, the RSVP is leading with 2,304 votes out of 7,167 votes. The RSVP has maintained its lead here from the beginning. The Shram Sanskriti Party is in second place. Shram Sanskriti, which is in second place with 1,173 votes, has overtaken UML, Congress and NCP as the vote count increases.
In Udayapur-2, the Shram Sanskriti Party is leading with 296 votes. The NCP is in second place with 193 votes.
The counting of votes in Syangja Constituency No. 2 is about to begin. A controversy arose after 171 ballot papers were found without the signature of the polling officer at the Baljyoti Basic School polling station in Waling Municipality-10.
The Election Commission had sent a letter to the District Election Office, Syangja, directing it to hold an all-party meeting to decide on the counting of votes.
The RSVP candidate is leading in the ongoing vote counting in both constituencies of Bardiya. In the latest vote counting, RSVP's Thakur Singh Tharu has received 1,124 votes in Bardiya-1. The NCP's Bishnu Chaudhary has received 382 votes, UML's Shalikram Adhikari has received 207 votes, and Congress's Sanjay Gautam has received 176 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. The vote counting began at 1 pm.
In Bardiya-2, RSVP's Shreedhar Pokharel is also leading. He has received 3,094 votes. Congress's Kishore Singh Rathore has received 2,731 votes, NCP's Suresh Pantha has received 1,789 votes, and UML's Bimala BK has received 980 votes. The vote counting began at 5 am here.
According to the latest results of Dhankuta, the Labor Culture Party has taken the lead. Labor Culture candidate San Bahadur Rai has taken the lead with 1,590 votes. He is being followed by UML candidate Rajendra Kumar Rai with 1,040 votes. Similarly, Congress candidate Dinesh Rai has received 734 votes. RSVP's Dinesh Rai has received 144 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.
In Tanahun-1, RSVP candidate Swarnim Wagle has maintained his lead. Wagle is leading in Devghat and Aanbukhaireni rural municipalities under Tanahun-1. Out of 14,150 votes counted in the two municipalities, RSVP candidate Wagle has received 7,615 votes. Similarly, Congress candidate Govindra Bhattarai has received 2,596 votes and CPN (UML) candidate Bhagwati Neupane has received 1,502 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting for Rupandehi Constituency No. 2, RSVP candidate Sulabh Kharel has been continuously increasing his lead. Out of the 27,623 votes counted so far in Rupandehi-2, Kharel has received 18,539 votes. Kharel is leading UML's Bishnu Poudel with a margin of 14,543 votes. UML's Poudel has received 3,996 votes. Congress's Chunna Prasad Sharma Poudel has received 2,450 votes, while Nepal Communist Party's Bishwadeep Pandey has received 498 votes.
The National Independent Party candidates have taken the lead in both constituencies of West Nawalparasi. In Nawalparasi Constituency No. 1, Bikram Khanal of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party has received 1,500 votes and Binod Chaudhary of the Nepali Congress has received 401 votes.
Similarly, in Constituency No. 2, Narendra Gupta of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party has received 2,790 votes and Bhim Bahadur Thapa of the Nepali Congress has received 1,016 votes.
In Panchthar, Brabim Sherma of the Shram Sanskriti Party has taken the initial lead. Sherma has taken the initial lead by getting 303 votes out of 980 votes cast in the Khandrong center of Miklajung Rural Municipality-1. Narendra Kumar Kerung of the Congress is in second place with 185 votes. Similarly, Aindra Sundar Nembang of the UML has secured the third place with 175 votes, while Harka Bahadur Nembang of the NCP is in fourth place with 141 votes. 71,170 votes were cast in the district.
In Manang, Congress candidate Tek Bahadur Gurung is leading with 1,427 votes. His rival, NCP candidate Yashoda Gurung, has received 254 votes, while Ram Bahadur Ghale of the Mongol National Organization has received 6 votes. So far, 1,713 votes have been counted in Manang. Of these, 24 votes have been invalidated.
In Manang, Congress candidate Tek Bahadur Gurung is leading with 1,256 votes. His rival, NCP candidate Yashoda Gurung, received 237 votes, while Ram Bahadur Ghale of the Mongol National Organization received 6 votes. 1,525 votes have been counted in Manang so far. Out of these, 22 votes have been invalidated.
Prashant Upreti of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has taken the lead in Makawanpur 2 under the House of Representatives elections. When 3510 votes were counted in wards 8 and 9 of Manahari Rural Municipality, Upreti trailed his nearest rival Buddha Lama of the Nepali Congress by about a thousand votes.
While Upreti received 1630 votes, Lama received 614 votes. Similarly, CPN-UML candidate and former MP Mahesh Bartaula received 509 votes. Nepali Communist Party candidate Lavsher Bista received 272 votes. Manahari is Upreti's home municipality. Both wards 8 and 9 of Manahari were won by the Congress in the local level elections. –Subash Bidari/Makawanpur
The counting of votes in Ramechhap under the House of Representatives member election has started late. The counting of votes began at 2:50 pm after political parties and candidates demanded an expansion of the counting venue, saying that the space was narrow.
Earlier, the counting venue was prepared at the Land Revenue Office in Manthali. Although the all-party meeting held at 9 am on Friday had agreed to start the counting of votes from 11:30 am, the counting of votes began after a delay of about 3 and a half hours due to venue management. Political parties and candidates had demanded an expansion of the space, saying that the space was narrow at the time of the counting. After that, the counting process was moved forward after the management was arranged, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. Currently, the counting of 1,451 votes cast in Sunapati Rural Municipality-4 Bethan has begun. A total of 48.26 percent of the votes were cast in Ramechhap district in this election. Out of 187,952 voters in the district, 90,710 people voted.
According to the preliminary results of Pyuthan, Nepali Congress's Dr. Govinda Raj Pokharel has taken the lead. Pokharel has taken the lead with 1984 votes. He is being followed by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Sushant Vaidik with 1405 votes. NCP's Krishnadhwaj Khadka has received 363 votes, Rastriya Janamorcha's Tilak Bahadur GC has received 439 votes, and CPN-UML's Surya Bahadur Thapa has received 363 votes.
In the ongoing vote counting in Rolpa, NCP candidate Barshaman Pun has taken an initial lead. According to the initial vote counting, Pun has received 265 votes. He is being followed by CPN (Maoist) candidate Chudamani Wali. Wali has received 259 votes.
Similarly, CPN-UML candidate Gokul Prasad Gharti has received 20 votes, while Kumar Gharti Magar of Mongol National Organization has received 15 votes.
Similarly, Balram Thapa of the National Independent Party and Sudan Kumar Wali of the Nepali Congress have received 7/7 votes.
In Parbat, RSVP candidate Sagar Bhusal has maintained his lead in the counting of votes for the House of Representatives member election.
Bhusal is leading in all three wards under Phalebas Municipality. After counting the votes in 4-Mudikuwa, 7-Limithana, 2-Thapathana, 1-Karkineta and 9-Bhangara, Bhusal has secured 2283 votes.
Similarly, his rival Congress candidate Arjun Prasad Joshi has secured 1303 votes, UML's Padam Giri has secured 1280 votes and NCP's Manahari Timilsina has secured 268 votes. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Parbat, the counting of votes in other wards is ongoing.- Sumanjung Thapa/Parbat
In Manang, Congress candidate Tek Bahadur Gurung is leading with a large number of votes. Out of 1,147 votes counted, he has received 914 votes.
UML supported Congress in Manang. NCP's Yashoda Gurung (Subedi) received 210 votes. Mongol National Organization's Ram Bahadur Ghale received 5 votes. 18 votes were invalid.
Out of a total of 7,000 voters, Manang had 2,892 votes, or 41.31 percent. Out of 1,517, men and 1,375 women cast their votes. -Ash Gurung/Lamjung
The preliminary results of the ongoing vote counting in Doti have been made public. The counting of votes is underway at the Chief Electoral Officer's Office, Siliguri, and 345 votes have been counted so far. According to the preliminary results, UML candidate Deepak Dhami is leading with 93 votes. Bharat Khadka of the Nepali Congress has received 68 votes, while the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate has received 48 votes. Similarly, Trilochan Bhatta of the Nepali Congress has received 43 votes. The National Janamorcha has received 2 votes, while the candidate of the Nepali Congress (Maoist) has received 1 vote. - Mohan Paneru
According to the initial results of the election in Parsa-3, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Ramakant Prasad Chaurasia is leading. According to the results so far, Chaurasia has received 1,058 votes. His nearest rival, Congress candidate Surendra Prasad Chaudhary, has received 778 votes. UML candidate Rupesh Kumar Pandey has received 240 votes. - Shankar Acharya/Parsa
According to the preliminary results of the ongoing vote counting in Parsa-4, RSP candidate Tek Bahadur Shakya is seen leading. According to the results so far, Shakya has received 575 votes. His nearest competitor, UML candidate Zalim Mia Mansuri, has received 233 votes. Congress candidate Ramesh Rijal has received 174 votes. -Shankar Acharya/Parsa
In Tehrathum, CPN-UML candidate Bhanubhakta Dhakal has increased the margin of votes. He has received 4,107 votes.
Nepali Congress candidate Santosh Subba is trailing UML candidate Dhakal by 3,780 votes. UML candidate Dhakal is ahead of Subba by a margin of 327 votes.
National Independent Party candidate Surendra Karki has received 3,407 votes. Similarly, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Subindra Kumar Limbu has received 1,797 votes and Nepali Communist Party candidate Randhwaj Limbu has received 277 votes.
Chief Election Officer Dil Kumar Bardewa informed that the counting of 14,173 votes out of the 39,297 votes cast has been completed so far. Chandra Karki/Tehrathum
In Kailali constituency number 1, there is a contest between the Nepali Congress and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Out of 6,257 votes counted so far, RSSP candidate Komal Gyawali is leading with 1,571 votes.
Following her is Janakraj Chaudhary of the Nepali Congress in second place with 1,434 votes. In third place is Phaguram Chaudhary, who filed an independent candidacy with an election symbol. He has received 1,181 votes. .
UML candidate Dwarika Prasad Neupane has received 495 votes. Nepali Communist Party's Ramlal Dangaura Tharu has received 444 votes, Rastriya Prajatantra Party's Lokendra Kunwar has received 159 votes, and Ujjwal Nepal Party's Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary has received 247 votes. - Ranjana BC, Kailali
The preliminary results of the counting of votes for Parsa Constituency No. 1 under the House of Representatives elections have been made public. According to the first results, RSP candidate Buddhi Prasad Pant is leading.
Pant is leading with 1,077 votes. UML candidate Pradeep Yadav has received 643 votes.
Similarly, Congress' Anil Rungta has received 330 votes. Nepali Communist Party's Ajay Chaurasia has received 19 votes, RPP's Nanda Kishore Prasad Srivastava has received 15 votes, and Janmat Party's Om Prakash Saraf has received 7 votes.
The counting of votes is ongoing at Thakur Ram Campus, Birgunj, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.
The preliminary results of the ongoing vote counting in Kailali Constituency No. 3 have been made public. The Election Office has stated that 1,572 votes have been counted so far. According to the details received, Birman Chaudhary of the Nepali Communist Party has taken the lead by getting the highest number of 604 votes. Similarly, Bhim Badwal of the Congress has got 215 votes. Jagat Joshi of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has got 275 votes in this constituency. Gauri Shankar Chaudhary of the CPN-UML has got 103 votes. Chakia has got 252 votes. Similarly, the Election Officer's Office has stated that 83 votes have been invalidated. The total number of voters in this constituency is 109,122, while the number of votes cast is 60,294. Ranjana BC/Kailali
According to preliminary results, UML has taken the lead in Dhankuta. UML's Rajendra Kumar Rai has 514 votes, while Shram Sanskriti Party's San Bahadur Rai is trailing with 510 votes. Congress' Dinesh Rai has 188 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. - Ramesh Chandra Adhikari
In Syangja-1, Dhananjay Regmi of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading with 7,499 votes. Bharatraj Dhakal of the Nepali Congress is in second place with 5,723 votes and Min Prasad Gurung of the UML is in third place with 4,341 votes, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer. Shailendra Ghimire of the Nepali Congress (NCP) is in fourth place with 861 votes. The counting of votes for wards 3 and 4 of Waling Municipality is currently underway. - Pratiksha Kafle
National Independent Party (RASP) candidate Sagar Bhusal has taken the lead in the counting of votes for the House of Representatives election in Parbat.
According to the results of the counting of votes in Ward No. 4, Mudikuwa, and Ward No. 7, Limithana, of Phalebas Municipality, Bhusal has taken the lead by 716 votes. Bhusal has received 445 votes from Mudikuwa and 271 votes from Limithana.
Similarly, his rival Nepali Congress candidate Arjun Prasad Joshi has received 426 votes, CPN-UML's Padam Giri has received 453 votes, and CPN's Manahari Timilsina has received 120 votes. Sumanjung Thapa/Parbat
In Surkhet constituency number 1, Bishnu Bahadur Khadka of the Nepali Congress continues to lead. Out of 4,807 votes counted, Khadka has received 1,932 votes.
Similarly, Khadka is currently being followed by Dhruv Kumar Shahi of the UML. He has received 1,186 votes. Then, Tek Bahadur Singh of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has received 1,166 votes.
While Jeet Bahadur Rana of the Nepali Communist Party received 204 votes, Ravikiran Hamal of the RPP received 53 votes. - Trupti Shahi/ Birendranagar
In Lamjung, Congress' Gam Prasad Gurung has taken the lead in the ongoing vote counting. He is in first place with 779 votes, while Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's Dharmaraj KC is in second place with 738 votes. Here, UML's Prithvi Subba Gurung has secured 412 votes. NCP's Harijang Tamang has received 74 votes. - Aash Gurung
The National Independent Party has taken the lead in the counting of votes for the ongoing House of Representatives election in Dadeldhura. With 2,600 votes counted so far in the district's only House of Representatives constituency, the National Independent Party candidate Tara Prasad Joshi is in the lead. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, out of the 2,600 votes counted so far, 2,453 votes have been validated while 147 votes have been invalidated. Among the validated votes, Joshi of the National Independent Party has taken the lead by securing 1,052 votes. Nepali Congress's Nainsingh Mahar has received 508 votes, while Nepal Communist Party's Mansingh Mal is in second place with 530 votes. Similarly, CPN (UML)'s Chakra Prasad Snehi has received 317 votes. Rastriya Prajatantra Party's Govinda Khadayat has received 18 votes. Among other candidates, Jai Matrubhumi Party's Laxmi Dutta Bhatta has received 12 votes, Rastriya Janamorcha's Chandradev BK has received 4 votes. Independent candidate Tirtharaj Upreti has received 4 votes, and Shram Sanskriti Party's Mahendra Pun Magar has received 2 votes. Independent candidate Gorakh Bahadur Air has received 1 vote. Dadeldhura district has only one House of Representatives constituency and the counting of votes is underway. Tarkaraj Bhatta/Dadeldhura
The counting of votes has not yet begun in Humla. Although it was said that all the ballot boxes would be delivered to the district headquarters by 1 pm, it has been postponed to 3 pm as the candidates did not arrive at the all-party meeting. In Humla, which has only one election, 22,467 votes were cast, or 65.36 percent of the vote. There are a total of 34,372 voters in Humla.
Counting of votes has begun in Doti. Balloon boxes collected from all 181 polling stations in the district were taken to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer in Siliguri amid tight security arrangements. There are a total of 181,739 voters in Doti. Voting was completed at 181 polling stations across the district. According to the Electoral Officer, the counting of votes has been managed in a systematic, transparent and speedy manner. Counting of votes has begun from the ballot boxes of wards 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Bogtan Phudsil Rural Municipality. - Mohan Paneru
The ballot box of one polling station in Bajura has not yet been brought to the district headquarters. The ballot box of Himali Rural Municipality-1 Kot polling station is yet to be transported, said Bajura Election Officer Bhim Shahi. Although the ballot boxes of other remote centers of Himali Rural Municipality were transported on Thursday and Friday morning, one is still missing, he said. He said that preparations are underway to transport it by 2 pm and hold an all-party meeting around 3 pm. - Arjun Shah
The counting of votes has begun in Sunsari Constituency No. 1. The counting of votes has begun at the assembly hall located in Dharan Sub-metropolitan City Ward No. 8. Here, Hark Sampang from the Shram Sanskriti Party, Mano Bhattarai from the NCP, Goma Tamang from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other candidates are in the fray.
According to the preliminary results of Pyuthan, RSP's Sushant Vaidik has taken the lead. RSP's Vaidik has taken the lead with 505 votes. He has been defeated by Congress candidate Govinda Raj Pokharel with 466 votes. NCP's Krishnadhwaj Khadka has received 108 votes, Rastriya Janamorcha's Tilak Bahadur GC has received 134 votes, UML's Surya Bahadur Thapa has received 69 votes, NCP's Naveen Kakshapati has received 1 vote, National Republic Nepal's Tara Singh Thapa Magar has received 3 votes, and Shram Sanskriti Party's Govinda Giri has received 3 votes. Out of the total 1,338 votes, 49 votes were invalid. -Shamser Bikram GC/Pyuthan
In Sunsari-3, Ashok Chaudhary of the National Independent Party has taken the lead.
Chaudhary has taken the lead with 553 votes after 1,000 votes were counted.
While CPN-UML's Bhagwati Chaudhary got 205 votes, Nepali Congress's Vijay Kumar Gachhadar got 174 votes.
Durgesh Chaudhary of the Nepali Communist Party has 29 votes.
According to the preliminary results of Baglung-2, Som Sharma of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading with 416 votes. Tekraj Poudel of the Congress has 277 votes, Gyannath Gaire of the NCP has 136 votes, and Manju Sharma of the UML has 49 votes.
The candidates of the National Independent Party (NIP), which won in Kathmandu's constituency number 1, are also seen leading in most other constituencies.
As the counting of votes is ongoing, the latest statistics from the commission show that the NIP candidates are in a strong position in 9 constituencies. NIP Ranju Neupane (Darshan) has won in constituency number 1. According to the Election Commission, Sunil KC is leading in constituency number 2, Rajunath Pandey in constituency number 3, Pukar Bam in constituency number 4, and Sasmit Pokharel in constituency number 5.
Similarly, Shishir Khanal in constituency number 6, Ganesh Parajuli in constituency number 7, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha in constituency number 8, Dol Prasad Aryal in constituency number 9, and Pradeep Bista in constituency number 10 are also maintaining their lead.
As the counting of votes in Kathmandu continues, According to the results, the RSVP candidates appear to be close to victory in many areas.
Counting of votes has begun in Saptari-4. District Election Office Chief Ramesh Kumar Joshi informed that counting of votes has begun there from 11:00 am. According to him, preparations have been completed to start counting of votes in 1 and 2 as well.
In Constituency No. 3, counting of votes will begin after 12:15 pm, said Election Office Chief Joshi. -Vidyananda Ram/Rajbiraj
It has been agreed to start the counting of votes in Rolpa from 1 pm today. Chief Election Officer Binod Khatiwada informed that the all-party meeting held from 8 am to discuss the preparations for the counting of votes has just concluded.
On Thursday, Nepali Communist Party cadres had beaten up CPN (UML) cadres while trying to prevent fake votes. The counting of votes could not start after other political parties protested that the police had not prosecuted the CPN cadres involved in the beating.
Rolpa Chief District Officer Ganga Bahadur Chhetri said that the counting of votes is going to start after it was agreed to register a complaint against those involved in the beating and take action and provide treatment to the injured.
Rolpa, which has only one House of Representatives constituency, has a total of 149,597 voters. Of these, 46.39 percent voted, according to the Election Office. -Minraj Roka/Rolpa
The National Independent Party has maintained its lead in Kailali constituency number 4, overtaking the Nepali Congress. So far, out of 2,960 votes counted, RSVP candidate Komal Gyawali has received 862 votes, Janak Raj Chaudhary has received 717 votes, independent candidate Phaguram Tharu has received 646 votes, Nepali Communist Party candidate Ramlal Dagoura Tharu has received 207 votes, CPN (UML) candidate Dwarika Prasad Neupane has received 189 votes, and Ujjaya Nepal Party candidate Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary has received 122 votes. There are 188,491 voters in this constituency, and 59,063 votes have been cast. Ranjana BC, Kailali.
The counting of votes has begun in Lamjung. The counting of votes began at 11:45 am on Friday, according to the Chief Election Officer's office.
The counting of votes has begun from a place inside the District Coordination Committee meeting hall with a wire mesh. For security, 2 CCTV cameras have been installed at the counting site.
Chief Election Officer Shishir Raj Dhakal said that the voting has begun after making systematic security arrangements. In Lamjung, the counting of votes has begun from the Jagriti Ama Samoom Bhawan Center in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality-4, Namarkhu.
There were a total of 137,124 voters in Lamjung. The Chief Election Office has stated that 75,250 votes were cast in 193 polling stations, including one temporary one out of 130 polling stations. 38,856 women and 36,229 men voted. 55.89 percent of women and 53.59 percent of men voted. The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer has stated that 54.76% of the total voters cast their votes. -Ash Gurung/Lamjung
Nepali Congress' Yogesh Gauchan Thakali has emerged victorious in the trans-Himalayan district of Mustang.
Gauchan won with 3,307 votes. His nearest rival, UML's Indradhara Bista, got 1,806 votes.
Gauchan was a member of the dissolved House of Representatives. He is the son of Congress leader and former minister Romi Gauchan.
Nepali Congress has taken the lead in Kailali 2. With 400 votes counted, Congress candidate Bijay Swar is leading with 146 votes. CPN-UML candidate Surya Thapa, who is in second place, has got 63 votes. In third place, KP Khanal of RSVP has got 40 votes, CPN-UML has got 55 votes and Naupa has got 1 vote. There are 1 lakh 7 thousand 757 voters in this constituency, and 56 thousand 770 votes have been cast. Ranjana BC, Kailali
Nepali Congress leader Shekhar Koirala has trailed in the initial vote count. He is trailing behind the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate in the Morang-6 by-election. In the constituency, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Rubina Acharya received 3,423 votes, while Koirala received 728 votes. CPN-UML's Binod Dhakal received 627 votes.
Hari Prasad Bhusal of the National Independent Party has taken the lead in the initial phase. He has secured 326 votes. Bishnu Prasad Khanal of the Congress has secured 266 votes and Pitamber Bhusal of the UML has secured 154 votes. Birendra KC/Arghakhanchi
According to the latest vote count in Tehrathum, Congress candidate Santosh Subba is leading by a margin of 91 votes. Subba has received 3,084 votes. CPN-UML candidate Bhanubhakta Dhakal has received 2,993 votes.
National Independent Party candidate Surendra Karki has received 2,549 votes. Similarly, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Subindra Kumar Limbu has received 1,441 votes and Nepali Communist Party candidate Randhwaj Limbu has received 247 votes. -Chandra Karki/Tehrathum
The National Independent Party has taken the lead in eight areas of Lumbini Province.
Rupandehi–2 Sulabh Kharel, Banke– 1 Suresh Kumar Chaudhary, Dang– 1 Devraj Pathak, Rupandehi– 3 Lekhjung Thapa, Banke– 3 Khagendra Sunar, Rupandehi– 5 Tofiq Ahmed Khan, Palpa– 1 Bimal Pant and Bardiya– 2 Shreedhar Pokharel have maintained the lead.
According to the latest vote results, the National Independent Party (NISP) is leading in Rautahat 4.
NISP candidate Ganesh Poudel has received 2,725 votes, while Nepali Congress's Dev Prasad Timilsena has received 982 votes, and Nepali Communist Party's Ram Kumar Bhattarai has received 884 votes.
Similarly, Aam Janata Party's Rishi Dhamala has received 10 votes, UML's Ramji Sah has received 128 votes, and JSP's Rajkumar Das has received 11 votes. - Rajeshwor Pandey/Rautahat
RSVP's Swarnim leads in Tanahun-1
Vote counting has also begun in Tanahun-2. The vote counting began at 11 am on Friday at the hall of Shuklagandaki Municipality, Dulegaudha. The vote counting for Tanahun-1 began at 1 pm.
The vote counting for this constituency is being held at the Chief Electoral Officer's Office, Damauli. Out of 6,566 votes counted, 2,928 votes were received by Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Swarnim Wagle. Similarly, 1,657 votes were received by Nepali Congress candidate Govinda Bhattarai and 1,101 votes were received by CPN (UML) candidate Bhagwati Neupane.
51.74 percent of the votes were cast in Tanahun. 71,369 women and 60,200 men A total of 131,620 votes were cast, including 51 votes. Tanahun, which has two constituencies, has a total of 230,906 voters, including 130,906 women and 123,491 men. -Samjhana Rasaili/Tanahun
Ananda Bahadur Chand of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading in Kailali constituency number 5. In the initial phase, when 1,000 votes were counted, Chand has maintained a lead of almost double the votes.
When 1,000 votes were counted, Chand of the RSSP has 490 votes, Yagyaraj Dhungana of the CPN-UML has 229 votes, Naranarayan Shah of the Congress has 127 votes, and Prem Ale of the CPN-UML has 70 votes. Ranjana BC
In Chitwan-2, out of 12,196 votes counted, RSP President Rabi Lamichhane has received 5,475 votes. UML candidate Asmin Ghimire has received 2,251 votes. Congress' Meena Kumari Kharel has received 2,053 votes and NCP's Pratap Gurung has received 1,531 votes. 87,221 votes were cast in Chitwan-2. -Ramesh Kumar Poudel/Chitwan
Counting of votes is underway in Kanchanpur-2 under the House of Representatives member election.
National Independent Party candidate Deepak Raj Bohara is leading with 4,268 votes. Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Narayan Prakash (NP) Saud has received 1,525 votes.
CPN (UML) candidate Bachan Bahadur Singh has received 837 votes, while Nepali Communist Party candidate Madhav Prasad Pant has received 427 votes. -Harishchandra Bagh
Counting of votes has begun in Pyuthan for the election of members of the Representative Council. Chief Election Officer Hiranya Prasad Bhandari informed that the counting of votes has begun at the council hall of the District Coordination Committee office.
The counting of votes has begun from Airavati Rural Municipality. Out of a total of 165,406 voters, 84,636 votes were cast in Pyuthan.
In Pyuthan, where 51.16 percent of the votes were cast, 51,242 women, 33,393 men and 1 other person participated in the voting. 14 candidates from 14 different political parties are in the fray in Pyuthan. Shamsher Bikram GC
According to the latest vote counting results in Tehrathum, UML candidate Bhanubhakta Dhakal has maintained his lead. Dhakal has received 2,567 votes. Congress candidate Santosh Subba has received 2,539 votes, and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Surendra Karki has received 2,154 votes. Similarly, Shram Sanskriti Party candidate Subindra Kumar Limbu has received 1,351 votes, and Nepali Communist Party candidate Randhwaj Limbu has received 232 votes. - Chandra Karki
Counting of votes has begun in Sindhupalchowk-2. Counting of votes is underway in Helambu-7, Melamchi Municipality-13 and Panchpokhari Thangpal-8. The District Election Office has stated that it has been decided to start counting of votes in Sindhupalchowk-1 from Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality. 55.69 percent voting was recorded in Sindhupalchowk. The district administration has stated that the voting that took place throughout the day yesterday was completed peacefully. There are 36 candidates in both the constituencies, including 15 political parties including Congress, UML, NCP, and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the district and 3 independent candidates. In Sindhupalchowk-2, Congress's Vansalal Tamang, NCP's Yubaraj Dulal, UML's Sher Bahadur Tamang and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are in the fray. - Anish Tiwari
According to the preliminary results of the vote counting in Palpa-1 under the House of Representatives election, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Bimal Pant has taken the lead.
According to the vote counting that began at 4 am on Friday, the vote counting for two of the 37 wards under Palpa-1 has been completed. Out of 2,519 votes counted in Tinau Rural Municipality Ward No. 5 and Tansen Municipality 8, Pant has received 1,306.
Narayan Prasad Acharya of CPN-UML received 554 votes, Sandeep Rana of Nepali Congress received 322 votes, Hum Bahadur Sunari Magar of Nepali Communist Party received 170 votes, and Salan Chidi of Mongol National Organization received 57 votes, informed Returning Officer Dashrath Pangeni.
13 candidates, including 9 political parties and 4 independents, are in the fray in this area. - Madhav Aryal
The counting of votes has begun in Surkhet Constituency No. 1. The Chief Electoral Officer's Office has stated that the counting of votes has begun some time ago. While 70,167 votes were cast in Constituency No. 1 of the district, 73,256 votes were cast in Constituency No. 2. There were 122,902 voters in Surkhet-1, while there were 127,668 voters in Constituency No. 2. The counting of votes is also ongoing in Surkhet-2. Tripti Shahi (Birendranagar)
Counting of votes is underway in Kanchanpur Constituency No. 1 under the House of Representatives member election. According to the latest results, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Janak Singh Dhami is leading with 1,077 votes.
Similarly, CPN (UML) candidate Tara Lama Tamang has received 1,029 votes, while Nepali Communist Party candidate Bina Magar has received 583 votes. Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Gopi Prasad Upadhyay has received 425 votes.
The results of the votes of other candidates are as follows:
Michael Tamang (Ujyalo Nepal Party) - 203
Dilli Bahadur Shahi (Rastry Prajatantra Party) - 47
Rupa Devi Bista (Independent) - 36
Sita B.K. (Aam Janata Party)- 9
Krishna Bahadur Chaudhary (Citizens' Liberation Party)- 8
Yadav Singh (Independent)- 8
Puran Rana Tharu (Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist)- 8
Raja Ram Dagoura Chaudhary (National Janamorcha)- 5
Dependra Bahadur Shahi (Progressive Democratic Party)- 5
Daniyal B.K. (United Citizens' Party)- 4
Anil Rana (Independent)- 4
Hum Bahadur Gurung (Mongol National Organization)- 3
Cutak Bahadur Shahi (Nepal Workers' Peasant Party) - 2
Other candidates have not received votes yet. The counting of votes is underway, the Returning Officer's office has said.
61,074 votes have been cast in Constituency No. 1, which has a total of 1,1724 voters. Of which 33,403 are female and 27,671 are male voters. The voter turnout in this constituency has been 60.03 percent. 19 candidates are in the fray. Harishchandra Bagh, Kanchanpur
Counting of votes has begun in Kavre-2. The counting of votes has begun simultaneously in Dhulikhel Municipality Wards No. 1, 2 and 3. Counting of votes is being done simultaneously in three places in the assembly hall of the Educational Training Center in Dhulikhel. Chief Election Officer Prem Prasad Neupane informed that the counting of proportional representation will begin after the counting of votes in person is completed. Preparations have been made to start counting of votes in Kavre Constituency No. 1 from 12 noon. A total of 60.42 percent votes were cast in Kavre. Out of 161,100 voters in Constituency No. 1, 56.57 percent or 91,128 people voted. Similarly, in Constituency No. 2, 64.17 percent or 165,611 voters in Constituency No. 2 voted. - Jyoti Shrestha
In Kailali constituency number 5, Anand Bahadur Chand of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading by almost double the votes. In the initial phase, when 1,000 votes were counted, Chand of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has secured 490 votes, Yagyaraj Dhungana of the CPN-UML has secured 229 votes, Naranarayan Shah of the Nepali Congress has secured 127 votes, and Prem Ale of the CPN-UML has secured 70 votes. Kailali is the most popular constituency in the district. There are 110,539 voters. 59 percent or 66,191 votes have been cast from this constituency. Ranjana BC, Kailali.
The transportation of ballot boxes to 23 polling stations in northern Gorkha has been delayed due to the inability of helicopters to fly due to bad weather. Chief District Officer Tulsi Bahadur Shrestha informed that the ballot boxes will be brought to the district headquarters by helicopter only after the weather becomes favorable.
In Jumla, the initial results show a difference of more than 100 votes between Naresh Bhandari of the NCP and Gyan Bahadur Shahi of the RPP. Shahi has received 541 votes when 1,245 votes are counted in Ward No. 1 and 2 of Kanaka Sundari Rural Municipality. Bhandari, who is following him, has received 435 votes. Similarly, Deep Bahadur Shahi of the Nepali Congress has received 154 votes, while Shantilal Mahat of the UML has received 72 votes. Binita Kathayat of the RPP has received 9 votes and Birkha Bahadur Rawat of the NEP has received 3 votes. According to the Central Election Office, 1,245 votes were counted in the first phase. Jumla's initial results indicate that there will be a close contest between the NCP and the RPP. DB Budha/Jumla
Nepali Congress' Basana Thapa has taken an initial lead in Dailekh constituency number-1. According to the ongoing vote counting of the House of Representatives member election held on Thursday, Thapa has secured a lead of 604 votes out of 1,630 votes counted.
Similarly, CPN-UML's Rabindra Raj Sharma has secured 549 votes, Nanda Kishore Basnet of the National Independent Party has secured 332 votes, and Nepali Communist Party's Amar Bahadur Thapa has secured 33 votes. Jyoti Katuwal/Dailekh
Shram Sanskriti Party Chairman Hark Sangpang has said that one should not rejoice or be disappointed until the final results are out, saying, "All is well."
While Shram Sanskriti Party is leading by one place, he said on his Facebook page, "All is well." "No one should rejoice or be disappointed until the final results are out. All is well," he wrote.
The counting of votes in Syangja-2 has not yet begun. The controversy arose after 171 ballot papers were found without the signature of the polling officer at the Baljyoti Basic School polling station in Waling Municipality-10.
Voting was stopped for some time yesterday due to the controversy. Later, after an all-party agreement was reached at the polling station, the voting was resumed.
But the counting process has now been affected due to this issue. Discussions are underway between the concerned parties at the District Administration Office to resolve the dispute. - Pratiksha Kafle
The counting of votes in Rautahat constituency number 1, which was halted after the delay in the arrival of the representative, has now begun.
According to the District Election Office, the ballot boxes of Ward No. 1 of Garuda Municipality and Ward No. 6 and 7 of Gadhimai Municipality under Rautahat 1 have now been opened.
Nepali Communist Party leader Madhav Kumar Nepal is in the election contest in this constituency. -Shiv Puri
The counting of votes for the election held in Baglung for the House of Representatives member is set to begin at 11 am on Friday. Chief Electoral Officer Sita Devi Sharma Adhikari informed that it was decided to proceed with the counting of votes at an all-party meeting held at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer this morning. The District Election Office has informed that there has been an agreement between the parties to start the counting of votes for Constituencies No. 1 and 2. The Adhikari said that the ballot papers of different wards will be collected at one place and the votes will be counted.
The counting of votes in Kapilvastu-2 has begun. The counting of votes began at 9:30 am on Friday.
The counting of votes in three polling stations of Kapilvastu Municipality Ward No. 1 has begun. The counting of votes in Ratna Rajya Secondary School, Buddha Padma Secondary School and Bal Mandir polling stations has begun.- Manoj Poudel
The counting of votes in Salyan is set to begin at 11 am. The all-party meeting held in the morning decided to count the votes from 11 am. In the House of Representatives election held on Thursday, Salyan, which had only one election, had a voter turnout of 51 percent. There are 162,449 voters in Salyan, which has 208 polling stations.
Ash Gurung
Lamjung. Ballot boxes have been transported from Narpabhumi Rural Municipality in the Himalayan district of Manang. Ballot boxes from 3 polling stations were transported from Nar village in Narpabhumi Rural Municipality and ballot boxes from 2 polling stations from Phu village were transported on Friday morning.
According to Chief District Officer Nawaraj Paudyal, the Nar and Phu ballot boxes have been brought to the district headquarters, Chame, in a single helicopter. The ballot boxes have now been taken to the counting site, the Agriculture and Livestock Development Office, Animal Services Branch (formerly the Veterinary Hospital), Paudyal said. All other ballot boxes have been brought to the counting site by 8:30 pm on Thursday.
He said that the ballot boxes were brought by helicopter as the polling stations in Narpabhumi Rural Municipality are located on a two-day walking route.
Chief Election Officer Ram Prasad Poudel informed that all the ballot boxes have been received and an all-party meeting is currently being held. He said that the counting of votes will begin after the meeting.
2,892 votes have been cast in Manang, which has a total of 7,000 voters. Out of these, 1,375 were women and 1,517 were men. This is 41.31 percent of the total votes.
There were 29 polling stations in 29 polling stations, including one temporary one, in Manang. Voting stations were designated for each ward in all 28 wards in Manang, which has four rural municipalities.
The counting of votes has begun in Surkhet-2 under the House of Representatives member election. The counting of votes began after an all-party meeting held on Thursday morning. 73,000 votes have been cast in Surkhet-2, which has 127,000 voters. Similarly, preparations are underway to start the counting of votes in Surkhet-1 as well. Jyoti Katuwal/Surkhet
The counting of votes has not yet been completed in the three constituencies of Rautahat. The Election Office has stated that the counting of votes could not be completed due to the delay in the arrival of representatives in Constituency No. 1.
The counting of votes was delayed after Nepali Communist Party candidate Kiran Sah raised a controversy in Constituency No. 2 alleging that there was rigging. The all-party meeting in Constituency No. 3 has ended. The Election Office has stated that the counting of votes will begin after some time.
In Jumla, Gyan Bahadur Shahi of the RPP has an initial lead. With 400 votes counted, Gyan Bahadur Shahi is leading with 182 votes. His nearest rival, Naresh Bhandari of the NCP, has received 129 votes. Deep Bahadur Shahi of the Nepali Congress has received 40 votes and Shantilal Mahat of the UML has received 30 votes. Binita Kathayat of the National Independent Party has received 4 votes and Birkha Bahadur Rawat of the NEMKIPA has received 2 votes. So far, 15 votes have been invalidated, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Jumla. DB Budha/Jumla
With 8,000 votes yet to be counted in Kathmandu Constituency No. 1, which is seen as a hot spot, Ranju Darshana of the National Independent Party is close to victory. Now, only 13 polling stations remain to be counted, said Chief Election Officer Churaman Khadka.
Hariram Upreti
Preparations are underway to start the counting of votes for Constituency No. 2 of the House of Representatives at 10 am in Gorkha. Preparations are underway to bring the ballot boxes of 23 polling stations in Chumanubri under Gorkha-1 by helicopter.
The counting of votes for Dang constituencies No. 2 and 3 of the House of Representatives member election has also begun. Chief Election Officer Prakash Prasad Pandit said that the counting of votes has just begun after the all-party meeting.
It had begun in the morning for constituency No. 1. According to the preliminary election results, the National Independent Party has taken the lead in Dang-1. 58.33 percent of the votes have been cast in Dang.
Out of 431,686 voters, 251,819 votes have been cast, informed Gehendra Kanwar, Information Officer of the Provincial Election Office, Dang.
Nepali Congress Vice President Bishwaprakash Sharma has said that the decision of the voters is acceptable. As the counting of votes began in various districts, Sharma wrote on social media on Friday, reiterating his restraint in welcoming the Maoists who emerged from the Bullet and welcoming the National Independent Party who emerged from the ballot.
Bhanubhakta Niraula
Solukhumbu. The work of transporting ballot boxes from the Khumbu polling stations in the mountainous region of Solukhumbu has begun. Chief District Officer Lila KC Panda informed that the Nepal Army helicopter has started bringing the district headquarters to Salleri from the Khumbu region.
Preparations are being made to bring all the ballot boxes to the district headquarters in 3-4 flights. Chief Election Officer Chandra Kumar Pokharel informed that all the ballot boxes will reach Salleri by 12 noon. At present, the ballot boxes of 5 municipalities in the district have reached the district headquarters, while the arrival of Khumbu, Sotang and Mahakulung rural municipalities is ongoing. A total of 41,481 voters cast their votes in 139 polling stations. In the district with 85,515 voters, 48 percent of the votes were cast in the House of Representatives elections.
Bhanubhakta Niraula
Solukhumbu. Ballot boxes from all polling stations in Okhaldhunga district have been brought to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer at the district headquarters. District Police Chief DSP Madan KC informed that ballot boxes have been brought from all polling stations by morning, with 59,079 votes cast. In the district with a total of 122,715 voters, 48 percent of the votes have been cast.
An all-party meeting has been called for 10 am for the counting of votes. The time for the counting will be decided after the all-party meeting.
In Bhaktapur 1, Rukesh Ranjit of the National Independent Party has defeated Prem Suwa of the Nepal Workers and Farmers Party. Ranjit is trailing with 6,884 votes and Suwa with 2,133 votes. The Nepal Workers and Farmers Party has been winning in this area since 2048. Similarly, in Bhaktapur 2, Rajiv Khatri of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party has defeated UML Secretary Mahesh Basnet by double the votes. Khatri got 3,060 votes and Basnet got 1,573 votes. Kabir Rana of the Nepali Congress has got 168 votes. The counting of votes is ongoing, according to the Election Office.
Bhavani Bhatta
Kanchanpur. In the House of Representatives elections, the National Independent Party candidates have taken the lead in all three constituencies of Kanchanpur. In Constituency No. 1, Janak Singh Dhami of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party is leading with 793 votes. In that constituency, Tara Lama Tamang of the UML got 398 votes, Gopi Prasad Upadhyay of the Congress got 371 votes, and Bina Magar of the NCP got 366 votes.
In Constituency No. 2, Deepak Bohara of the RSP got 2,427 votes, while NP Saud of the Nepali Congress got 936 votes, Bachan Bahadur Singh of the UML got 625 votes, and Madhav Prasad Pant of the NCP got 228 votes.
Similarly, in Constituency No. 3, Gyanendra Singh Mahata of the RSP got 567 votes, while Hari Bohara of the Nepali Congress got 223 votes, and Dr. Deepak Prakash Bhatta got 132 votes and Man Bahadur Sunar of the NCP got 79 votes.
An all-party meeting for counting votes in Salyan has begun at 9 am on Friday. The main election office in Salyan has stated that the counting of votes will begin after the all-party meeting is completed.
Chief Election Officer Pralad Kumar Yogi informed that various issues including counting of votes were discussed in the meeting. According to him, it was decided to count the votes from Friday, saying that there would be problems at night due to the delay in bringing ballot boxes from remote polling stations in the district after the voting was completed on Thursday.
51 percent of the votes were cast in the voting held in Salyan on Thursday. There are a total of 162,449 voters in Salyan.
The counting of votes has begun in Dailekh Constituency No. 1. The counting of votes began after an all-party meeting held in the morning. The counting of votes began this morning after an all-party meeting held after the collection of ballot boxes after the election held on Thursday. It has been reported that the election was conducted peacefully and the counting process was also carried out in an orderly manner. Jyoti Katuwal/Dailekh
Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Indira Rana Magar has taken the lead in Jhapa 2. She has defeated former Speaker Devraj Ghimire.
Rana has received 2,965 votes and Ghimire has received 1,147 votes. Sarita Prasai of the Nepali Congress is in third place with 1,125 votes. Counting of votes is underway.
The counting of votes for the House of Representatives elections in Parbat is set to begin at 11 am on Friday. An all-party and all-sectoral meeting is currently being held at the Chief Electoral Officer's office before the counting. The meeting has reached an agreement on the process of counting votes. Although there was a proposal to combine ballot papers from different wards and count them, the meeting has decided to count votes from each ward separately.
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Gulmi. The counting of votes in Gulmi is scheduled to begin at 10 am. An all-party meeting was held at the District Administration Office. District Election Officer Rishiram Ghimire said that the counting of votes will begin at 10 am.
A total of 64,787 votes were cast in Gulmi's constituency number 1. The votes were cast directly for the House of Representatives member. Chief District Officer Badrinath Ghair informed that a total of 53.023 percent votes were cast in this area. Of which 36,028 were female voters and 28,759 were male voters. There were a total of 122,186 voters in this area. Out of which 62,272 were female voters and 59,914 were male voters.
Voting was held in 155 polling stations out of 83 polling stations in this area. 57.85 percent of women and 48 percent of men voted in this area.
A total of 53,114 votes have been cast in Gulmi's constituency number 2. The votes were cast for members of the House of Representatives.
An all-party meeting has begun in Dhankuta to prepare for the start of vote counting under the House of Representatives member election. According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, the all-party meeting has been started in the presence of representatives of political parties, candidates and stakeholders at the Community Building in Dhankuta Municipality-5. The meeting is discussing the vote counting process, management of the counting site, security situation and other technical issues related to the counting. It is said that the counting of votes will begin after the meeting is concluded. Ballot boxes collected from 168 polling stations, including 2 temporary ones in Dhankuta, have been brought to the counting site. Binod Ghimire/Dhankuta
The National Independent Party has maintained its lead in Dang constituency number 1. With 3910 votes counted, RSP candidate Devraj Pathak has received 2381 votes, while Nepali Congress' Yogendra Chaudhary has received 571 votes.
Similarly, UML candidate Rewatiraman Sharma has received 340 votes, while NCP's Metmani Chaudhary has received 239 votes. An all-party meeting is currently being held in the other 2 and 3 constituencies of Dang, and the counting of votes will begin at 10 am, informed Chief Election Officer Prakash Prasad Pandit.
Counting of votes has begun in Jumla. Counting of votes has begun at 8:30 am. Although it was decided by all parties to start counting of votes from 7 am, it has been delayed by one and a half hours. 40,897 votes have been cast in Jumla. Voting was held at 110 polling stations. Counting of votes has begun from Kanakasundari Rural Municipality. DB Budha/Jumla
Preparations are underway for the counting of votes in both the constituencies of Dailekh. An all-party meeting has been held to count the votes in both the constituencies. The counting of votes will begin at 9 am, according to the Chief Electoral Officer's office. Jyoti Katuwal/Dailekh
Kanchanpur, 22 Falgun. The preliminary results of the vote counting in Kanchanpur constituency number 3 under the House of Representatives member election have been made public. According to Election Officer Tara Prasad Joshi, with about 900 votes counted so far, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Gyanendra Mahata is leading with 387 votes.
Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Hari Prasad Bohara has received 156 votes. Similarly, Nepal Communist Party (UML) candidate Dr. Deepak Prakash Bhatta has received 85 votes. The counting of votes is ongoing, according to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer.
Nepali Congress has taken the lead in five seats.
According to the Election Commission, Congress candidates are Santosh Subba in Tehthum-1, Uday Shamsher Rana in Lalitpur-1, Yogesh Thakali in Mustang-1, Abhishek Pratav Shah in Kapilvastu-3 and Janakraj Chaudhary in Kailali-1.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal of the Nepali Communist Party has taken the lead in the Rukum East by-election.
In the initial count, he has secured 1,415 votes. CPN-UML's Lilamani Gautam is trailing him with 431 votes.
Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Kusumdevi Thapa has secured 417 votes.
In the same constituency, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Lakhan Kumar Thapa is in fourth place with 176 votes.
The Nepali Communist Party has taken the lead in two areas. NCP coordinator Pushpa Kamal Dahal has taken the lead in Rukum East. So far, he has received 1,415 votes.
Dahal was the candidate in Rukum East this time. Earlier, he had won from Gorkha 2.
UML's Leelamani Gautam is following him. She has received 431 votes. Similarly, Congress's Kusam Devi Thapa has received 417 votes.
Similarly, Mahendra Bahadur Shahi has taken the lead in Kalikot. He has received 2,865 votes. Congress's Harsh Bahadur Bam has received 2,089 votes.
Counting of votes is ongoing in Rukum East and Kalikot.
The preliminary results of the vote counting in Kanchanpur Constituency No. 1 under the House of Representatives election have been made public. With 2,109 votes counted so far, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Janak Singh Dhami is leading with 793 votes. Similarly, CPN (UML) candidate Tara Lama Tamang has received 398 votes, while Nepali Congress candidate Gopi Prasad Upadhyay has received 371 votes. Similarly, Nepali Communist Party candidate Bina Magar has received 366 votes.
The vote results of other candidates are as follows:
–Michael Tamang (Ujyalo Nepal Party) - 106
–Dilli Bahadur Shahi (Rastry Prajatantra Party) - 42
The vote results of other candidates are yet to be updated. The office of the Returning Officer has stated that the vote counting is ongoing. 61,074 votes have been cast in Constituency No. 1, which has a total of 1,101,724 voters. Of which 33,403 are female voters and 27,671 are male voters. The voter turnout in this constituency is 60.03 percent. 19 candidates are in the fray.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading in both constituencies of Bhaktapur. In Bhaktapur 1, Rukesh Ranjit of the RSSS has secured the lead by getting 3,452 votes. He was followed by Prem Suwal of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWP) with 1,982 votes.
Kiran Neupane of the Nepali Congress has secured 529 votes. In Bhaktapur 2, Rajiv Khatri of the RSSS has taken the lead. According to the Election Commission, Mahesh Basnet of the CPN-UML is trailing him.
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Sankhuwasabha. Ballot boxes from five polling stations in Sankhuwasabha, which are considered very remote geographically, will be brought by helicopter on Friday. Ballot boxes from three polling stations in Bhotkhola and two polling stations in Silichong rural municipality will be brought by army helicopter.
The ballot boxes from Thudamma, Ridak and Kimathanka under Bhotkhola rural municipality, Khempalung Basic School in Silichong rural municipality-5 and Shivashakti Secondary School in Kampek in ward number 3 will be brought by helicopter, DSP Kumar Prasad Mainali said.
Similarly, a counting site has been prepared in the meeting hall of the District Coordination Committee for Counting. Chief District Officer Sirjana Thapaliya said that there is security arrangement with CCTV cameras and barbed wire at the counting site.
There are 165 polling stations in the district, including one temporary one. There are 119,630 voters in this district, which is the only constituency for the House of Representatives election. There are 109 polling stations and 164 polling stations in the district. There are 15 political parties and one independent in the election district.
In Jhapa 5, former Prime Minister and UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli is lagging behind in the counting of the areas where he expected to get good votes. UML leaders had been saying that they had a strong hold outside the Damak area. And, they had made every effort to save votes in those areas.
However, now that 2,403 votes have been counted for Bansbari Secondary School (A) and (B) of Kamal Rural Municipality and Moti Secondary School (A) and (B) of Gauradaha, Oli is lagging behind by 1,093 votes. While senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Balendra Shah got 1,478 votes, Oli got 385 votes.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is leading in 32 seats where vote counting has begun. Updates on the vote counting for the House of Representatives election are continuing.
Chairman Rabi Lamichhane is leading in Chitwan 2, while senior leader Balendra Shah is leading in Jhapa 5.
An all-party meeting has been called this morning to move forward with the counting process after the voting in Ramechhap under the House of Representatives member election. The Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Ramechhap, has said that an all-party meeting has been called at 9 am to prepare for the counting.
According to Election Officer of the Election Office, Narayan Lamichhane, ballot boxes have been collected from all polling stations in the district and brought to the Land Revenue Office building in Manthali, the district headquarters. An all-party meeting has been called to discuss the issue of moving forward with the counting of votes after the ballot boxes have been safely collected. – Nawaraj Shrestha
Ballot boxes from 41 of the 70 polling stations in Dolpa have reached the office of the Chief Electoral Officer. According to Topendra Budhamagar, Information Officer of the District Police Office, Dolpa, ballot boxes from 29 places have not yet reached the office of the Chief Electoral Officer.- Ramchandra Neupane/Dolpa
Pukar Bam, the candidate of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSWP), has taken the lead in Kathmandu constituency number 4. According to the latest vote update, Bam has received 3,922 votes.
Similarly, Nepali Congress's Sachit Timalsena received 1,095 votes, while CPN-UML's Rajan Bhattarai received 956 votes.
Deukhuri (Dang). The National Independent Party has also taken the lead in Dang Constituency No. 1. The party's candidate Devraj Pathak has received 1,515 votes.
According to Gehendra Kunwar, Information Officer of the Provincial Election Office, Yogendra Chaudhary of the Nepali Congress has received 292 votes and Rewatiraman Ghimire of the CPN-UML has received 220 votes. RSS
In Kathmandu constituency number 10, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Pradeep Bista has secured a wide margin of votes.
When 8,525 votes were counted, Ghanti candidate Bista got 5,226 votes. Nepali Congress candidate Himal Karki got 815 votes.
CPN-UML's Binod Shrestha got 594 votes. CPN's Rupa Maharjan got 156 votes.
The counting of votes has begun in Rukum East.
It is said that after the collection of ballot boxes from all polling stations was completed last night, the counting began after an all-party meeting was held in the morning and a decision was made.
Out of a total of 34,772 voters, 18,604, or about 51 percent, were cast in Rukum East.
In the initial vote count of Jhapa Constituency No. 5, senior leader of the National Independent Party, Balendra Shah, has taken a wide lead over UML's KP Sharma Oli.
With 2,303 votes counted, Balendra has received 1,476 votes, while his rival, UML Chairman Oli, has received 384 votes.
According to the Election Commission, UML has taken the lead in three areas in the ongoing vote counting.
UML candidate Asmin Ghimire of Chitwan-2 has taken the lead with 755 votes, candidate Pramod Kumar Yadav of Rupandehi-4 has taken the lead with 1208 votes, and candidate Mohammad Istiyak Rai of Banke-2 has taken the lead with 882 votes.
Mahendra Bahadur Shahi of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) has taken an initial lead in the vote counting that has begun in Kalikot.
When the votes of Palata Wards No. 1, 2, 3 and 7 were counted, Shahi, the former Chief Minister of Karnali Province, took an initial lead by getting 833 votes.
According to the Election Commission, vote counting is underway in 27 constituencies across the country.
Looking at the initial trend of the vote results, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) appears to be ahead of other parties.
The National Independent Party has taken the lead in the initial vote count of Kathmandu-5. Sasmit Pokharel of the Rashtriya Swatantra Party has received 3,700 votes.
He is followed by Pradeep Poudel of the Nepali Congress. He received 1,078 votes. Similarly, Ishwor Pokharel of the CPN-UML is in third place. He received 699 votes.
The National Independent Party has taken the lead in nine places in Bagmati Province.
According to the results so far, the Rashtriya Swatantra Party has taken the lead in nine places, while the UML has taken the lead in three places.
The UML has taken the lead in 6 of the 10 areas in Kathmandu, 2 in Bhaktapur and 1 in Lalitpur.
The counting of votes has started in Kalikot from 5:45 pm on Friday. After the ballot boxes reached from the 9 local levels here, an all-party meeting was held at 1 pm and it was decided to count the votes. Chief Election Officer Kul Prasad Dahal said that the counting of votes began from 5:45 am. According to him, the counting began from the Kalika Secondary School polling station in Palata-1 Pulaha. -Tularam Pandey
Counting of votes has begun in Chanapur-1. According to the Office of the Returning Officer, the counting of votes has begun at 4:15 am after an all-party consensus. It is said that the counting of votes began after the ballot boxes collected after voting were safely brought to the counting center and the necessary procedures were completed.
Out of a total of 1 lakh 1 thousand 724 voters in Constituency No. 1, 61 thousand 74 votes have been cast. As soon as the counting of votes began, the counting process has been carried out in the presence of representatives of various political parties, representatives of candidates and security personnel.
The counting of votes has begun in Rautahat constituency number 4. The counting of votes has begun at the Janajyoti Multiple Campus in Chandrapur. The Election Office has stated that the counting of votes has now begun in ward number 9 of Gadhimai Municipality. 75 thousand 391 votes were cast in this constituency. - Shiva Puri
The counting of votes has begun in Chitwan-3. The counting of votes has begun in Madi Municipality-5, 6 and 9 wards. 64.46 percent of the votes have been cast in this area.
Sobita Gautam from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Renu Dahal from the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Shankar Raj Thapaliya from the UML, Tek Prasad Gurung from the Nepali Congress and Deepak Thapa from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party are the candidates in this area.
The counting of votes has begun in all three constituencies of Kaski. The counting of votes in Constituency No. 2 began at 12:30 am on Friday, while counting of votes in Kaski-1 began at 2:00 am and in Kaski-3 at 2:30 am. The counting of votes in Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality-33 of Kaski-2 is underway, while it has begun in Rupa Rural Municipality of Kaski-1. Similarly, the counting of votes has begun in Annapurna and Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality-1 of Kaski-3.
In Kathmandu-1, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) candidate Ranju Darshana has taken an initial lead. She has secured 704 votes, while Congress candidate Prabal Thapa has secured 402 votes and UML candidate Mohan Raj Regmi has secured 92 votes. Similarly, RPP candidate Rabindra Mishra has secured 241 votes. Nepali Communist Party (NCP) candidate Menuka Bhandari has secured 23 votes.
In Kathmandu-8, RSVP candidate Biraj Bhakta Shrestha has taken an initial lead. He has received 1,724 votes, while Congress candidate Sapana Rajbhandari has received 207 votes and NCP candidate Suman Sayami has received 154 votes. Similarly, UML candidate Rajesh Shakya has received 115 votes.
The counting of votes in Rupandehi Constituency No. 2 is about to begin. Assistant Election Officer Hum Bahadur Pandey said that the counting of votes has begun from Tilottama Ward No. 1 after an informal all-party meeting held at the Election Officer's office.
Out of 135,050 voters in Rupandehi Constituency No. 2, 86,715 people have voted. In this constituency, 39 candidates are in the fray, including Bishnu Poudel from UML, Chunna Prasad Poudel from Nepali Congress, Sulabh Kharel from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Bishwadeep Pandey from NCP. However, the main competition is seen between UML, Congress and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
The counting of votes for Kathmandu-3 and 10 has begun. According to Kathmandu-3 Election Officer Chamila Bhattarai, the counting of votes began at 10:30 pm on Thursday. The counting of votes is continuing at Chamunda Secondary School, Narayantar. Similarly, Election Officer Amrita Kumari Sharma informed Ekantipur that the counting of votes for Kathmandu-10 has begun at the Tribhuvan University Memorial Building in Kirtipur. According to her, the counting of votes has begun from Dakshinkali Municipality. Similarly, the counting of votes has begun at 11:30 pm in Banke Constituency No. 1 and 2.
