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Senior leaders of the five-party alliance are holding a meeting today to review performance in the November 20 parliamentary and provincial elections. CPN (Unified Socialist) General Secretary Beduram Bhusal said that the meeting to be held in Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba’s official residence in Baluwatar at 3 pm today will evaluate the polls. It has been learnt that the meeting will also dwell on the government formation. Also Read: Nepal: Parties begin deliberations on power-sharing The five-party coalition currently consists of Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Center), CPN (Unified Socialist), Democratic Socialist Party-Nepal and Rastriya Janamorcha. The Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Center) won 57 and 18 first-past-the-post seats of the lower house respectively. Similarly, CPN (Unified Socialist) won 10 seats and Loktantrik Samajbadi Party and Rastriya Janamorcha Party won four and one seats respectively.  

CPN (Maoist Center) candidate Ganga Karki has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Dolakha. He defeated CPN-UML candidate Bal Krishna Shivakoti by a margin of 317 votes to emerge victorious. Karki secured 36, 799 votes while Shivakoti garnered 36, 482 votes. Similarly, Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Jagadish Kharel got 3, 793 votes and Rastriya Prajatantra Party’s Bijaya Khadka received 1, 561 votes.  

Bharat Bahadur KC of the CPN-UML has been elected as a member of the Province Assembly from Dolakha-2. He was elected as the Province Assembly member by defeating Barma Lama of Nepali Congress by a margin of 1, 809 votes. KC secured 19, 424 votes while his nearest rival Lama got 17, 595 votes.  

Nepali Congress candidate Badri Prasad Pandey has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Bajura. Pandey, a common candidate of the ruling alliance, defeated CPN-UML candidate Karna Bahadur Thapa by a margin of 5, 437 votes. Pandey secured 31, 786 votes while his closest contender Thapa garnered 26, 349 votes. This is the first time that the Nepali Congress won the election since 2007.