Rastriya Swatantra Party Takes Lead in Proportional Representation Vote Count, UML Trails in Fourth

Kathmandu. Along with the counting of votes for the House of Representatives direct elections, the counting for the proportional representation (PR) category has also begun. According to the preliminary results, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has maintained the lead in the PR count, while the major political party CPN-UML has been pushed to fourth place.

According to the data of 11,154 total votes updated by the Election Commission, the RSP has secured the first position by obtaining 6,605 votes.

The Nepali Congress, in second place, received 2,130 votes. Similarly, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) is in third place with 1,013 votes, while the CPN-UML is limited to fourth place, having received only 607 votes. The RSP, which is leading in a significant number of seats in the direct election results, has also surpassed the traditional major powers in the PR count.

Other smaller parties have also gathered a few hundred votes after the top four parties. The Shram Sanskriti Party secured 222 votes to take fifth place, while the Nepali Communist Party received 179 and the Rastriya Parivartan Party received 133 votes. Likewise, the Nepal Janata Sanrakshan Party secured 58 votes, the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party 33, and the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party 32 votes.

The Janmat Party received 11 votes, while the Janata Samajbadi Party, Nepal, and CPN (Maoist Centre) both received only 5 votes each. Furthermore, the Rastriya Janamorcha received 8 votes, and CPN (ML) also received 8 votes. The votes for the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party Nepal, Mongol National Organization, and dozens of other parties are limited to single digits.

In the counting so far, about a dozen parties including Nepal Loktantrik Party, Nepal Sadbhavana Party, Nepal Janamukti Party, and Nagarik Shakti Nepal have failed to open their account. Their vote count is zero. It has been stated that the votes counted initially were from Kathmandu-1. The Election Commission has stated that votes from other constituencies will be counted sequentially thereafter.