RPP's Thapa elected Damak Mayor defeating UML

Jhapa, May 20 (RSS): The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has won the mayor post in Damak Municipality, Jhapa district, in the vote count of the local poll held on May 13.

RPP candidate Ram Kumar Thapa has been elected the mayor with 17,525 votes while his nearest contender Gita Kumari Poudel Adhikari of the CPN (UML) got 17,072 votes. Adhikari was elected the deputy mayor in the local election in 2017.

Regina Bhattarai of the Nepali Congress has been elected the deputy mayor securing 16,966 votes as against her closest competitor Ambika Prasad Khanal of the CPN (UML) who got 16,574 votes.

The total number of voters is 58,176 and the voter turnout in the May 13 elections was 39,895.

The UML has won the ward chair post in Wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 9, the Nepali Congress in Wards 4 and 10 and the RPP in ward number 7. 

RPP's Thapa was the common candidate from the six-party alliance in Damak municipality.