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Basanta Kumar Nembang of the CPN-UML has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Panchthar. He surpassed Nepali Congress candidate Bhishma Raj Aangdembe by 47 votes.  Nembang garnered 32,110 votes while Aangdembe got 32,063. Nembang was elected the HoR member from Panchthar in the parliamentary elections in 2048 BS, 2056 BS and 2074 BS also. Born on March 21, 1962 in Phidim of Panchthar, Nembang was appointed the Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport for 18 months in 2076 BS. Meanwhile, Kamal Prasad Jabegu of the CPN (Unified Socialist), the common candidate of the ruling alliance, has won the Province Assembly (PA) member seat from Panchthar-1. He secured 16,837 votes. His nearest competitor Raj Kumar Bhandari of CPN (UML) got 16,204 votes. Similarly, Indra Kumar Angbo of CPN (Maoist Centre), the common candidate of the ruling alliance, has been elected as a Province Assembly member from Panchthar PA-2. Angbo secured 15,672 votes while his closest contender Aindra Sundar Nembang of the UML got 12,605 votes. The Election Commission said that 34, 365 votes were cast in this constituency.

CPN (Maoist Center) candidate Aman Lal Modi has emerged victorious from Morang-4. He defeated his closest contender Binod Dhakal of CPN-UML by a huge margin of 6, 149 votes. Modi secured 30, 612 votes while Dhakal garnered 24, 463 votes. This is the third time that he was elected as a member of the House of Representatives.

Rastriya Prajatantra Party candidate Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan won the election to the House of Representatives from West Nawalparasi-2. Former Inspector General of Nepal Police (IGP) Pradhan defeated Nepali Congress candidate Devendra Raj Kandel by a huge margin of 15, 365 votes. Pradhan secured 34, 759 votes while former Home State Minister Kandel garnered 19, 594 votes. Similarly, CPN-UML’s Dipendra Kumar Adhikari got 14, 498 votes.

Nepali Congress' candidate Binod Kumar Chaudhary has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives (HoR), the lower house of the federal parliament, from Nawalparasi (Bardaghat Susta West)-1. He secured 29,495 votes, defeating his nearest competitor Hridayesh Tripathi, the candidate from Janata Pragatisheel Party, by a margin of 7,178 votes. Tripathi got 22,308 votes, informed Sujata Khatri, the District Election Officer. A noted industrialist and businessman, Chaudhary became a member of Parliament in the first Constituent Assembly Election in 2064 BS and the parliamentary election of 2074 BS from the proportional representation quota. He was picked as MP in 2064 BS by CPN-UML and by the Nepali Congress in 2074 BS elections. Mahendra Sen Thakuri of Rastriya Swatantra Party garnered 12,599 votes and Gulab Prasad Chaudhary of Janamat Party got 5,944.