Old guard leaders fail to make thru the elections
The results of the House of Representatives (HoR) elections under the first-past-the-post electoral system are in the final stage, which show a landslide victory for the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP).
In the HoR elections held on March 5, the top leaders of the established political parties lost the election, while voters poured in their massive support to the RSP.
The RSP faced the election by forwarding its senior leader and former mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City Balendra Shah as the prime ministerial candidate.
As per the results, the RSP is heading to gain two-thirds majority seats in the next parliament.
As of now, the RSP has gained 119 seats out of 165 seats under the direct election system. Similarly, the party has gained massive votes under the proportional electoral system.
Likewise, the Nepali Congress has won 17 seats, while UML and the Nepali Communist Party have won seven seats each under the direct electoral system.
The NC, the largest political party in the erstwhile parliament, has suffered massively and its top leaders have lost the election.
NC President Gagan Kumar Thapa, general secretaries Pradip Paudel and Gururaj Ghimire, joint general secretaries Pharmullah Mansoor, Udaya Shumsher Rana and Prakash Rasaili Snehi lost the March 5 HoR election.
Likewise, senior leaders Shekhar Koirala, Bimalendra Nidhi, Bijay Kumar Gachchhadar, NP Saud, Mahalaxmi Upadhyay 'Dina' and other leaders too could not win the election.
CPN-UML KP Sharma Oli, vice chairs Gokarna Bista, Prithvi Subba Gurung and Bishnu Prasad Paudel, general secretary Shankar Pokhrel, assistant general secretaries Raghubir Mahaseth and Lekhraj Bhatta, secretaries Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, Serdhan Rai, Mahesh Basnet and Dr Rajan Bhattarai also lost the election in their constituencies.
UML's senior leaders Ishwar Pokhrel, Devraj Ghimire and Pradip Kumar Gyawali too also come in the same page of those being defeated.
In the Nepali Communist Party (NCP), its Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal won the election from Rukum East but other top leaders including Madhav Kumar Nepal, Narayan Kaji Shrestha, Bhim Rawal, Mahindra Raya Yadav, Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Shakti Basnet and Devendra Paudel were defeated from the contenders, mostly from the RSP candidates.
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Chairman Rajendra Lingden, senior vice chairman Rabindra Mishra and senior leader Kamal Thapa also witnessed a defeat in the election.
Surprisingly, Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party, which had continuously won the election from Bhaktapur lost the polls in Bhaktapur for the first time since 2048 BS.
Likewise, all the top leaders and the entire competitors of the Madhes-based political parties including Upendra Yadav, Rajendra Mahato, CK Raut, Prabhu Shah and others lost the election.
RSP candidate Thapa victorious in Sunsari-2
Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) Lal Bikram Thapa won the election to the House of Representatives from Sunsari 2.
Thapa secured victory with 57,348 votes, according to Rajendra Kumar Lamsal, an election officer.
His closest contender was Nepali Congress' Rajiv Koirala who obtained 16,071 votes.
Similarly, Sujan Lama of the Nepali Communist Party stood third with 8,303 votes while Chetan Rai of the Shram Sanskriti Party got 7,484 votes.
Altogether 28 candidates including those of 19 political parties and nine independent ones were in electoral fray in this constituency.
The constituency comprising 30 wards had listed 158,910 voters for the election. Among them, 101,004 cast their votes in the March 5 election.
HoR poll results: Results of 155 constituencies published so far, RSP wins 119 seats till 5 pm
The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won the election to the House of Representatives in 119 constituencies so far.
As per the result updated at 5 pm, RSP candidates are maintaining their lead in six constituencies, according to the Election Commission.
Out of the results of 155 constituencies published so far, the Nepali Congress (NC) candidates were elected in 17 constituencies.
Similarly, the CPN-UML has won seven seats and is leading in three constituencies.
The EC reported that seven candidates of the Nepali Communist Party have won the election so far.
Likewise, the Shram Sanskriti Party has emerged victorious in three constituencies while the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and an independent candidate secured victory in one constituency each.
Under the proportional representation (PR) system, vote counting has crossed over 4.53 million till 5 pm, according to the Commission.
Out of 4,530,913 votes counted so far, the RSP is leading with 2,239,870 votes. The Nepali Congress followed with 760,485 votes.
The CPN-UML has received 646,770 votes while the Nepali Communist Party got 304,063 votes, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party 163,151 votes and Shram Sanskriti Party 107,032 votes.
RSP's Gauri Kumari elected in Mahottari-4
Gauri Kumari of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has been elected from Mahottari 4 under the House of Representatives election.
According to Chief Election Officer Madhav Prasad Adhikari, as per the vote count concluded today in constituency 4, Gauri Kumari secured victory by receiving 30,132 votes.
The office of the Chief Election Officer stated that her competitor, Surendra Kumar Yadav, candidate of the Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP), received 8,745 votes, Nilam Adhikari of the CPN-UML secured 6,944 votes, and Mahendra Kumar Rai of the Nepali Congress got 6,192 votes.
