Bhutanese PM Tobgay congratulates Shah and Lamichhane over victory
Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay congratulated Rastriya Swantantra Party President Rabi Lamichhane and senior leader Balen Shah through social media for the victory in the election.
Prime Minister Tobgay also mentioned that he is looking forward to working deeply, further deepening the warm friendship between the two countries with the government. ‘We look forward to further deepening the warm friendship between the two countries,’ he wrote in the congratulatory message.
RSP leads PR vote count with huge margin
The counting of votes cast under the proportional representation (PR) system for the House of Representatives (HoR) elections is underway.
As of 7:46 am today, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which has so far won 125 seats, is also leading in the PR vote counts with a wide margin.
Out of 10,297,497 votes counted so far, the party has secured 4,951,964 votes.
Similarly, the Nepali Congress (NC) has achieved 1,674,940 votes while the CPN-UML garnered 1,390,293 and the Nepali Communist Party got 753,082.
The Shram Sanskriti Party has collected 348,159 and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party achieved 322,604 votes.
As per the EC updates, the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal secured 169,447 votes, the Rastriya Pariwartan Party 165,069 and the Janamat Party has achieved 75,486 votes.
Towards the direct electoral counts, the NC has been elected in 18 seats, UML in nine, NCP in eight, Shram Sanskriti in three, RPP and an independent candidate one each.
UML’s Karki elected HoR member from Sankhuwasabha
Dr Arjun Kumar Karki of CPN-UML was declared the winner in the House of Representatives (HoR) election from Sankhuwasabha district.
As per the results announced last night, Karki won the HoR seat by getting 15,663 votes against his nearest rival Mingma Sherpa.
Sherpa of Rastriya Swatantra Party bagged 15,000 votes in the election, according to the Office of the Returning Officer.
Of the total 119,630 voters in the district, 63,634 voters cast their votes in the March 5 HoR election.
NCP’s Yadav wins HoR seat from Dhanusha-1
Nepali Communist Party (NCP) Matrika Prasad Yadav has won the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) from Dhanusha 1.
According to the Election Commission (EC), Yadav won the seat by securing 10,428 votes, while his nearest rival Rampaltan Sah of Nepali Congress obtained 9,485 votes.
Ram Chandra Mandal of CPN-UML secured 9,220 votes in the HoR election held on March 5.
The result of Dhanusha-1 was announced on Monday after a meeting of the EC directed the Office of the Returning Officer for the same.
Earlier, the EC had scrapped the candidacy of Kishori Sah, the candidate of Rastriya Swatantra Party, for being on a blacklist.
The case is in the Supreme Court (SC) now.
The SC on Monday directed the EC to appear on March 10 with the file regarding the cancellation of Sah's candidacy.



