By-election vote count updates

Kathmandu, Dec 2: Vote count results of the local level by-election held on Sunday are being updated.  

  
CPN (UML)'s Janga Bahadur Shahi has been elected the chairperson of Mahabu Rural Municipality in Dailekh district by securing 3,127 votes.    

His closest rival, Jhalak Bahadur Bhandari of Nepali Congress, obtained 2,675 votes, Chief Returning Officer Kul Prasad Pandey informed. 

   
Nepali Congress candidate Tetar Sah has been elected the ward chair of Gadhi Rural Municipality-6 in Sunsari district by securing 816 votes. His nearest rival, CPN (UML)'s Santu Oraon, got 770 votes while CPN (Maoist Centre)'s Kusheshwar Kherwar got 695 votes, according to Chief Returning Officer Mukesh Upadhyaya.    

Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal has won the post of ward chair of Dakneshwori Municipality-1 and 4 in Saptari. Dhirendra Kumar Sah has been elected the ward chair of Dakneshwori-1 and Devendra Prasad Yadav of Dakneshwori-1, according to Ramesh Kumar Joshi, chief of the District Election Office, Saptari. 

   
Nepali Congress candidate Dhirendra Pujara has been elected the ward chair of Surma Rural Municipality-4 in Bajhang by securing 657 votes. His nearest rival CPN (UML)'s Lakhi Chandra Bohara secured 487 votes, the Election Office informed.  (RSS)