RSP's Chaudhary elected from Saptari-3
Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate Amar Kanta Chaudhary has been elected to the House of Representatives (HoR) from Saptari 3.
According to Election Officer Sitaram Acharya, he has received 32,875 votes.
Upendra Yadav of the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP) Nepal has received 15,239 votes while Dinesh Kumar Yadav of the Nepali Congress has received 8,428 votes.
RSP candidates elected in both constituencies of Kavre
Under the House of Representatives elections held on Thursday, candidates of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) have been elected in both constituencies of Kavrepalanchok district.
From Kavrepalanchok-1, Madhu Kumar Chaulagai has won with 29,618 votes. His closest competitor, Gunaraj Moktan of Nepali Congress, received 19,166 votes.
Similarly, Dinanath Gautam of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) received 14,184 votes while Amit Lama of the CPN-UML got 13,814 votes.
Likewise, from Kavrepalanchok-2, RSP candidate Badan Kumar Bhandari was elected with a margin of 35,476 votes.
Bhandari garnered 53,344 votes while his competitor, Madhu Prasad Acharya of Nepali Congress, received 17,868 votes.
Similarly, in this area, Ashok Byanju of UML received 13,940 votes and Basundhara Humagain of NCP got 8,107 votes.
NC's Giri elected HoR member from Bajura
Nepali Congress candidate Janak Raj Giri has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Bajura, securing 17,173 votes.
Chief Election Officer Sanjeev Pokharel said that Giri's closest competitor, Lal Bahadur Thapa, the candidate of the CPN-UML, received 16,633 votes.
According to Chief Election Officer Pokharel, Hemraj Thapa of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) received 6,035 votes, Prakash Bahadur Shah of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) received 3,428 votes, Keshar Bahadur Shahi of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) received 352 votes, and Bhupendra BK of the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) received 333 votes.
Out of 87,861 registered voters in the district which is a single electoral constituency, 45,390 votes were cast. According to the Office of the Chief Election Officer of Bajura, 43,896 votes were valid when counted.
Gautam of RSP wins in Makwanpur-1
Prakash Gautam of the RSP has won by more than double the votes in the House of Representatives constituency number-1 of Makawanpur by securing 36,033 votes.
He defeated Mahalaxmi Upadhyaya Dina of the Nepali Congress. Dina secured 14,038 votes. Rameshwor Rana of the CPN-UML, who came third in the race, secured 12,783 votes.
Deepak Bahadur Singh of the RPP, who was also the winner of the previous election, slipped to sixth place and settled for 4,574 votes. Similarly, Vijay Gautam of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) got 10,788 votes, Surendra Lama of the Ujjayaalo Nepal Party got 10,205 votes, and Bidya Shrestha of the Shram Sanskriti Party got 1,024 votes.
Dina has lost a direct election for the fifth time. She had entered parliament through proportional representation in the second Constituent Assembly election in 2014. NCP's Gautam contested the election for the first time.
