Election

Kathmandu, Nov 28 : Around 15 per cent votes cast under proportional representation (PR) system during the elections to the House of Representatives held on November 20 are yet to be counted. According to the EC, a total of 9,308,164 votes or of the cast votes, 84.82 per cent votes have been counted so far. As per the preliminary details, …

Kathmandu, Nov 28 : Out of over 9.3 million votes counted so far under the proportional representation, the CPN (UML) is leading with 2,534,323 votes. The Nepali Congress is following with 2,399,831. Similarly, the Rastriya Swatantra Party has got 1,063,718, the CPN (Maoist Center) 1,062,747, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party 545,656 and the Janata Samajwadi Party 326,372. The Janamat Party and …

Trishuli, Nov 28 : With the completion of vote count, the candidates of the election to House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly have begun submitting the spending they made during campaigning. The Election Commission had decided to fine the candidates with equal amount of spending ceiling if they failed to submit the election expense within the stipulated time. The final …

Inaruwa, Nov 27 : Candidate for House of Representatives member from Sunsari constituency no 4, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, has demanded recounting of votes. The vote counting halted since Saturday noon was supposed to resume after all-party meeting on Sunday but to no avail. The all-party meeting failed to reach consensus after which Karki submitted an application letter in the Election …

Inaruwa, Nov 27 : Vote count in Sunsari constituency-4 has been postponed since Saturday evening. The Chief Returning Officer Arjun Adhikari said the vote count could not resume yet as local political parties failed to forge a consensus. Nepali Congress candidate from the constituency, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, blamed that 606 votes were added to the total vote numbers garnered by …

Kathmandu, Nov 27 : CPN (UML) vice-chairman Subas Chandra Nembang has been elected the Member of the House of Representatives from Ilam electoral constituency number 2. According to the District Election Office, leader Nembang won the HoR election by securing 30,020 votes and his closest contender Nepali Congress’ Dambar Bahadur Khadka obtained 29,905 votes. Nembang was the Speaker of the …

Bajura, Nov 27 : Counting of votes of the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly held on November 20 has become uncertain in Bajura. The vote counting became uncertain after complaint was filed at the Election Commission, saying Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) cadres cast fake votes capturing the polling booths at different voting centres in the …

Phikkal, Nov 26 : Former Prime Minister and candidate of Ilam constituency no 1 for the House of Representatives (HoR) election from CPN (Unified Socialist) Jhalanath Khanal has accused of vote rigging in his constituency. Khanal has called for reelection in Ilam constituency no 1, claiming vote rigging there. Talking to the media on Saturday, Khanal said, “Electoral fraud has …

Pathari, Nov 26 : Nepali Congress’s Dr Sunil Sharma was elected the House of Representatives member from Morang constituency 3. He defeated his nearest rival CPN-UML’s Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal by a wide margin of 22,716 votes. He got 48,613 votes while Dhakal 25,897. Meanwhile, Sharma expressed his commitment to work for the people with discipline. He made this statement while …

Rupandehi, Nov 26 : Deepak Bohara of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has been elected to the member of the House of Representatives from Rupandehi-3. Bohara received 36,717 votes while his closest rival Bal Krishna Khand of the Nepali Congress got 34,036 votes, according to Assistant Election Officer, Sobhakhar Kharel. Khand is the Minister for Home Affairs in the federal government. …