Kathmandu: The Election Commission has said it has counted more than 7.8 million votes under the proportional election. It is the update of votes total 47 political parties received till 9:00 pm Saturday.
There is a constitutional provision that a total of 110 members are elected to the House of Representatives via the proportional electoral system. As per the count, the CPN UML has stood first with 2,165,632 million votes while it is followed by Nepali Congress with 2,082,500 million.
Similarly, CPN Maoist has been able to secure third position with 918,526 votes.
The fourth party in rank to get proportional votes is Rastriya Swatantra Party which also collected 884,750 thousand votes.
Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party received 467,145 votes, Janata Samajbadi Party 254,423 votes, CPN (Unified Socialist) 198,224 votes, Janamat Party 186,596 thousand votes, Nagarik Unmukti Party 178 thousand votes, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party 106 thousand votes, Nepal Workers and Peasant Party 68 thousand votes.
The Nationalist People’s Party is in the last rank getting 1,182 votes under the proportional election. The vote turnout in the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly was 61 percent. There were more than 17.9 million voters registered for the election.
For the first-past-the-post election, there were 2,412 candidates while for the proportional election under FPTP, there are 2,199 candidates in the final closed list.
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