Voting results by November 29 except for three districts; 80 percent of PR votes counted

Kathmandu / Nov 27: The Election Commission is in the final stage of announcing the results of the general elections held on November 20.

According to the latest results of vote count, Nepali Congress (NC) has won the highest number of seats in the House of Representatives (HoR) under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system.

According to the Election Commission (EC), the NC has so far won 53 seats in the lower house of parliament and is ahead in the vote count in three constituencies as of Sunday afternoon.

Likewise, the CPN (UML) has won 41 seats and has maintained its lead in two constituencies. CPN (Maoist Center) has won 17 seats, followed by CPN (Unified Socialist) 10, Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Rastriya Swatantra Party seven each.

Similarly, Loktantrik Samajwadi Party Nepal has won six seats and has maintained a lead in one constituency. Independent candidates have won five seats in parliament, while Janata Samajwadi Party has won four seats and Nagarik Unmukti Party has won three seats.

Due to disputes in some constituencies, the counting of votes has been delayed or postponed in those places. Shaligram Sharma Poudel, the spokesperson of the EC, informed Republica that the results of FTPT and PR votes of all other districts except Bajura, Dolakha and Syangja will be available by this evening or tomorrow (Monday).

Spokesperson Poudel said that the EC will publish the results of all the districts except those three not later than November 29.

The commission assured that it will take necessary measures to resolve the problems seen in Bajura, Dolakha and Syangja and all the voting results will be available as soon as possible.

80 per cent of PR votes counted so far

Almost 80 per cent of votes cast in the November 20 election under the Proportional Representation (PR) electoral system of the House of Representatives (HoR) and Provincial Assembly (PA) has been counted so far.

Shaligram Sharma Paudel, the spokesperson of the Election Commission, informed that process to enter the details about PR votes counted so far in the information system of the EC and that of the office of the chief election officer is underway.

There were 17.98 million eligible voters for the November 20 election of the member of the HoR and the PA, according to the EC. Given the EC’s preliminary estimate that voter turnout was 61 per cent, and now 80 per cent of that counted, it comes out that about 2.4 million votes are remaining to be counted under the PR category.

It is said that the final result of the vote count of those Constituencies where the counting is going on will be announced by Monday.

The vote count of Bajura is yet to be started as the re-voting was conducted in Nandeshwari Mavi, Pipalchaur polling centers on November 26.

As the ruling parties and the opposition have locked horns in dispute, the EC decision is awaited on whether to conduct re-voting or go ahead with counting in Syangja-2 and Dolakha.