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CPN (Maoist Centre) Secretary and Minister for Education Devendra Poudel has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Baglung constituency-2. Poudel was elected HoR member for the second time, defeating Manju Sharma of CPN-UML by 4,599 votes. Poudel received 24,779 votes this time. Earlier, in 2074 BS election, he had secured 28,827 votes.  

Janamat Party Chairman CK Raut has won the election to the member of the House of Representatives from Saptari-2. He defeated Janata Samajbadi Party Chairman Upendra Yadav. Raut secured 35, 042 votes while Yadav garnered 16, 969 votes. The Janamat Party Chairman won the election with a margin of 18, 063 votes.

Rastriya Janamorcha Party Chairman Chitra Bahadur KC has emerged victorious in Baglung-1. He garnered 21, 451 vote to defeat Surya Prasad Pathak of the CPN-UML, who received 18, 825 votes. KC is a common candidate of the five-party alliance. The octogenarian is entering the parliament for the fourth time.  He was the winning candidate in the 1999 general election and 2008 Constituent Assembly election. He was the member in the 2013 (second) Constituent Assembly from the Proportional Representation system and did not compete in the 2017 election.  He had, however, lost the 1994 mid-term election. He was appointed the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation on November 5, 2015 at the age of 75. He is well-known among the people as a leader with high oratory skills. He had spent 19 years in his life underground and nine months in jail.

Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate Shisir Khanal has been elected as a member of the House of the Representative from Kathmandu-6. Khanal emerged victorious by securing 14, 204 votes. His closest contender Sarbendra Khanal of the CPN-UML got 8, 911 votes and Bhimsen Das Pradhan of the Nepali Congress garnered 8, 805 votes. Earlier, party’s Sobhita Gautam was elected in Kathmandu-2, Ganesh Parajuli in Kathmandu-7, Birajbhakta Shrestha in Kathmandu-8. Khanal is the founder of Teach for Nepal, a campaign working to improve the education sector of Nepal. Sarbendra Khanal is the former Inspector General of Police while Pradhan is the former Defence Minister. Twenty-four candidates, including 13 from different parties and 11 independents, were in the race for the HoR seat from Kathmandu-6.  There were 62,102 registered voters in this constituency stretching from Bagbazar via Gongabu to Kavresthali of Kathmandu district. The voter turnout in Sunday's election was 38,910. Out of this, 1,532 votes were invalid.