Kathmandu: The counting of votes cast under the proportional representation (PR) system for the House of Representatives (HoR) elections is underway.
According to National News Agency Nepal, as of 3:00 pm today, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is leading the PR vote count with a substantial margin, having already secured 124 seats. Out of a total of 908,400 votes counted so far, the party has obtained 439,035 votes.
In comparison, the Nepali Congress (NC) has garnered 470,796 votes, while the CPN (UML) has received 231,789 votes. The Nepali Communist Party has accumulated 656,941 votes. Additionally, the Shram Sanskriti Party has collected 313,489 votes, and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has achieved 294,355 votes.
The Election Commission’s updates indicate that the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal secured 140,237 votes, the Rastriya Pariwartan Party obtained 137,245 votes, and the Janamat Party received 62,460 votes. Meanwhile, the Rastriya Mukti Party Nepal, Janata Samajbadi Party, and the Nagarik Unmukti Party each achieved 50,051 votes.
In terms of direct electoral counts, the NC has been elected in 17 seats, the UML in seven, the NCP in seven, Shram Sanskriti in three, with the RPP and an independent candidate securing one seat each. The vote counts show the RSP, NC, and UML are leading in one constituency each: RSP in Gorkha-1, NC in Ilam-1, and the UML in Sankhuwasabha-1.