According to the Election Commission’s updates till 12:15 pm today, vote counting is taking place for 135 constituencies out of 165. In the ongoing vote counts, the NC is taking its lead in 42 constituencies, CPN (UML) in 38, CPN (Maoist Centre) in 14, Rashtriya Swatantra Party in 11, Rashtriya Prajatantra Party in five and other parties and candidates in 22.
Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Poudel has maintained the lead in the vote count tally in Tanahu constituency no. 1. He tops the tally since the preliminary stage of the vote counting.
Janamat Party’s candidate Mahesh Prasad Yadav has been elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly (PA) under Constituency-2, ‘B’ Saptari district.
KP Sharma Oli, Chairman of the CPN (UML) and candidate for the member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from Jhapa-5, has taken a lead in the vote count.
Dr CK Raut, the National Chairperson of Janamat Party, is leading in the vote tally with more than double the votes secured by Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP) Chair Upendra Yadav, under the election to the Member of House of Representatives in Saptari constituency-2. Raut is leading the vote tally by 6,808 votes against Yadav.
Nepali Party’s candidate Shailendra Man Bajracharya has been elected as a member of the Provincial Assembly (PA) under Constituency-8’A’, Kathmandu.
Chhiring Dorje Lama of the Nepali Congress has won the election under the Province Assembly from Kathmandu constituency-3 (A). He obtained 4,558 votes to win the election, according to election officer Mandira Shahi. Lama’s nearest competitor was Chandra Man Lama from the CPN (UML) who finished the race with 3,415.
Maoist Centre candidate Janardan Sharma has maintained a lead for a House of Representative (HoR) member in Rukum West.
Nepali Congress General Secretary Bishwa Prakash Sharma has maintained a lead in the House of Representatives (HoR) member election by a huge margin in Jhapa-1.
Vote counting under the election to the Member of the House of Representatives and Province Assembly held on Sunday is to start from 1 pm today. An all-party meeting was decided to this effect.
UML Vice-Chairman Subash Chandra Nemwang has maintained a lead of 98 votes against his competitor in Ilam.
General Secretary of The Nepali Congress, Gagan Kumar Thapa has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from Kathmandu - 4.
Sudan Kiranti, Maoist Centre's candidate for the HoR member has taken lead in Bhojpur.
UML General Secretary, Shankar Pokharel, candidate for HoR member from Dang - 2, has left behind Maoist Centre candidate Rekha Sharma by 1,352 votes.
Re-voting in Simta rural municipality of Surkhet, which was postponed on November 20, is taking place today.