85% of Candidates in Kavrepalanchok Face Forfeiture of Election Deposits in Federal Parliament Polls

Kavrepalanchok. In the elections for the House of Representatives held on Thursday, 85 percent of the candidates who contested in Kavre are set to lose their election deposits. Out of 42 candidates in the two constituencies of the district, 35 are facing forfeiture of their deposits.

Many among the total candidates in the district could not even cross 10 votes. Kavre has 326,611 voters. However, candidates from the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) won in both constituencies of the district. In Kavre-1, out of 18 candidates, 14 candidates forfeited their deposits. In this constituency, candidates from all parties except Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Nepali Congress, CPN (UML), and CPN (Maoist Centre) had their deposits forfeited.

In this constituency, which has a total of 161,100 voters, 91,101 votes were cast. Out of this, 87,124 votes were valid and 4,977 votes were invalid. Seven candidates in this constituency could not even cross 100 votes. Man Bahadur Tamang of the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal received 71 votes, Raju Tamang of the Nepal Workers' and Peasants' Party received 52, and Gyanendra Kumar Shrestha of the Pragatisheel Loktantrik Party received 56 votes.

Binod Lama of the Samabeshi Samajbadi received 50 votes, Bharat Tamang of the National Republican Nepal received 35 votes, independent candidate Jeevan Lama received 94 votes, and independent candidate Yuvaraj Chaulagain received seven votes.

Binod Lama of Samabeshi Samajbadi in this constituency is an LGBTIQ+ candidate. Furthermore, Navraj Satyal of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party received 699 votes, Dhiraj Lama of the Shram Sanskriti Party received 287 votes, Kamal Bahadur Lama of the Mangal National Organisation received 156 votes, Kancha Tamang of the CPN (Maoist Centre) received 149 votes, Ratna Lama of the Sanyukta Nagarik Party received 114 votes, and independent candidate Rajeshkumar Shrestha received 169 votes.

In this constituency, Madhu Kumar Chaulagain of the RSP won by securing 29,698 votes. Gunjraj Mottan of the Congress received 19,166 votes, Dinanath Gautam of the CPN (Maoist Centre) received 14,184, and Ami Tamang of the UML received 13,814 votes. Yogendra Lama of the Ujyalo Nepal Party in this constituency received 7,403 votes but could not save his deposit.

Similarly, in Constituency No. 2, which has a total of 165,511 voters, 104,642 votes were cast. Out of this, 99,580 votes were valid and 5,062 votes were invalid. According to the provision that candidates receiving less than 10 percent of the total valid votes in the constituency will have their deposit forfeited, 21 out of 24 candidates in this constituency are set to lose their deposits.

In this constituency, deposits were forfeited for all candidates except the winning candidate Badhan Bhandari of the RSP, Madhu Prasad Acharya of the Nepali Congress, and Ashok Byanjanku of the UML. The CPN (Maoist Centre) candidate Basundhara Humagai received 8,107 votes but could not save her deposit. Similarly, Jyotsana Sainju, the candidate from Ujyalo Nepal Party, received 3,749 votes, and Ranjiv Shrestha from the RPP received 1,125 votes, but their deposits were not saved.

Meanwhile, according to the vote count results from the Chief Electoral Office in the district, most candidates could not even cross 50 votes. According to the results, the independent candidates who received the fewest votes were Keshavraj Timilsina with 4, Lenin Bista with 8, Ganesh Prasad Adhikari with 11, Bishnu Kumar Shrestha with 13, Dilli Neupane with 31, Asha Tamang with 59, and the candidate from Miteri Party Nepal Hari Bahadur Thapa received 10 votes, Sukman Tamang from National Republican Nepal Party received 15, Sitaram Mainali received 21, Umesh Thapa received 26, Umesh Lama from Mangol National Organisation received 28, Rajan Thapa from CPN (United) received 32, Rakum Lama from Janata Samajbadi Party received 32, and Suvarnabikram Thapa from Rastriya Janamorcha received 39 votes.

In this constituency's election, Bhandari of the RSP won by a large margin with 53,344 votes, while Acharya of the Congress received 17,868 and Ashok Byanjanku of the UML received 13,940 votes.