CPN (UML) candidate, Kancha Ghale, has won chair in Manang Ngisyang Rural Municipality of Manang district.
The counting of votes in Kathmandu Metropolitan City has started.
The counting of votes has started in 11 of the 17 municipalities in Morang district where local elections were held on Friday.
A Nepal Army helicopter has left for Chhangaru Tinkar, the most remote place in the district, to bring the ballot boxes of the polling that took place on Friday.
Harkanarayan Joshi of Nepali Congress has been elected the chair of ward no. 6 of Laljhadi rural municipality.
The counting of votes of local level election in Gokarneshwor Municipality has started. The counting of votes has started from Ward No. 1 of the municipality, where 800 votes have been counted, said Election Officer Ranju Gautam.
The counting of votes has started in four out of six municipalities of the district.
Preparations for the counting of votes in Kathmandu Metropolitan City have reached the final stage. An all-party meeting held on Friday night had decided to count the votes from 8 am today.
Shyam Bahadur Rana, information officer at the district election office, said that voting in Malika secondary school polling center of Kharpunath Rural Municipality-1 and the Kot secondary school polling center in Sarkegard Rural Municipality-7 continued till 10 pm.
Ghale got 320 votes, 41 more votes than his rival, NC's Chhiring Dhwarje Lama, who got 279 votes in the local level election held on Friday.
By Belina Thapa, Lamjung, May 14: Nepali Congress candidate Konjo Tenjing Lama has been elected to the post of Narpabhumi Rural Municipality in Manang district.He secured 158 votes, 47 more than his rival, independent candidate Krishna Bahadur Lama who got 111 votes.According to the office of the chief election officer, as there was a single candidate for vice-chair of this local level, UML's Mengmar Funcho Lama has been elected unopposed to the post of vice-chair. Of 448 total voters, 304 had cast their votes in Narpabhumi RM, which calculated to 67.85 voter turnout.
By TRN Online, Kathmandu, May 13: Voting in the local level election has been stalled at 41 polling centers of 26 polling stations across the country.According to Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliaya, voting could not successful in 41 polling centers of 26 polling stations and it had to be suspended.Chief election officer can opt for re-election in the polling stations where voting has been suspended today, by informing the Commission and on the basis of the election/returning officer. EC Spokesperson Shaligram Sharma Paudel said that the voting went peacefully in overall although dispute erupted in some places due to the political parties and the candidates.
PM Deuba extended special thanks to the Election Commission for conducting the poll in a peaceful, free, fair, impartial and enabling manner.
The dispute occurred at the Kalika Secondary School polling center. Locals said that Katuwal died on the spot due to bullets.
Election Officer Ishwari Prasad Paudyal viewed the poll as normal, but it could not be termed very exciting.