PR vote counts: UML, NC, Swatantra in top three

Kathmandu, Nov 24: The counting goes on for the votes cast during the simultaneous voting for the elections to the Member of the House of Representatives and Province Assembly under the Proportional Representation (PR) system. The voting was held last Sunday.     

According to the count updates made available by the Election Commission till this afternoon, the CPN (UML) leads the counts tally as it has so far obtained 555,832.     

The Nepali Congress is in the second position with 529,009 followed by 286,000 by the Rashtriya Swatantra Party. Similarly, the CPN (Maoist Centre) secures 257,000 followed by 154,231 from the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party, 66,688 from the Janata Samajbadi Party, 51,236 from Nepal Workers and Peasants’ Party, 45,641 from the Janamat Party, 38,724 by the Nagarik Unmukti Party, 36,407 by the CPN ( Unified Socialist), 31,886 by the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, and 21,730 by the Hamro Nepali Party.  (RSS)