Kathmandu, Nov 24 :
The counting goes on for the votes cast during the simultaneous voting for the elections to the Member of the House of Representatives and Province Assembly under the Proportional Representation (PR) system. The voting was held last Sunday.
According to the count updates made available by the Election Commission till this afternoon, the CPN (UML) leads the counts tally as it has so far obtained 555,832.
The Nepali Congress is in the second position with 529,009 followed by 286,000 by the Rastriya Swatantra Party. Similarly, the CPN (Maoist Centre) secures 257,000 followed by 154,231 of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, 66,688 of the Janata Samajbadi Party, 51,236 of Nepal Workers and Peasants’ Party, 45,641 by the Janamat Party, 38,724 by the Nagarik Unmukti Party, 36,407 by the CPN ( Unified Socialist), 31,886 by the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party, and 21,730 by the Hamro Nepali Party.
(RSS)