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RSP candidate Rajunath Pandey has won the election from Kathmandu Constituency No. 3.

Pandey secured 18,757 votes to defeat Ujjalo Nepal Chairperson Kulman Ghising, who received 11,171 votes.

Nepali Congress candidate Ramesh Aryal got 6,000 votes, while CPN-UML’s Rameshwor Phuyal received 3,816 votes.

Nepali Congress candidate Tek Bahadur Gurung from Manang district has won in the House of Representatives election held on Thursday. Gurung collected 2,415 votes to emerge victorious.

Chief election officer in the district Ram Prasad Paudel informed that Gurung, who had been leading the vote count from the very beginning, was announced victorious. 

His nearest rival from the Nepali Communist Party (NCP), Yashoda Subedi Gurung, collected 454 votes. Similarly, Ram Bahadur Gurung (Nawin) of the Mangal National Organization got 9 votes.

Manang, having a single constituency, recorded 54.80 percent voter turnout. There were a total 7,000 voters listed for the election. 

District election officer Jivan Kunwar said the number of invalid votes was 45.

Birajbhakta Shrestha of Rastriya Swatantra Party has been declared victorious. He collected 24,592 votes. 

Shrestha's nearest rival Suman Sayami of the Nepali Communist Party received 3,217 votes. Nepali Congress' Sapana Rajbhandari is behind with 2,835 votes.

Shrestha, who had become the Minister for Youth and Sports, is a central secretariat member of RSP. It is the second time he got elected to the House of Representatives from the same constituency. Earlier, he was elected HoR member in 2079BS. 

RSP leader Shrestha is a graduate in commerce. He is known for preservation of culture, language and Guthi tradition. He has forwarded the development agenda like carbon trading and forest conservation.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is leading in 96 constituencies according to the vote count released under the House of Representatives elections held on Thursday. 

According to the Election Commission, vote counting is currently in progress in 135 constituencies by 5 pm today, the RSP is leading in 96 constituencies, while Nepali Congress in 11 constituencies, CPN-UML in 10 constituencies and Nepali Communist Party in nine places. 

Similarly, the Shram Sankriti Party is leading in three places, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Progressive Democratic Party, Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal, and independent candidates are ahead in one place each.

So far, one candidate from RSP and one from the Nepali Congress have been victorious. 

RSP's candidate Ranju Darshana has won from Kathmandu Constituency- 1 with 15,455 votes, and Congress's Yogesh Gauchan Thakali has won from Mustang with 3,307 votes.