LALITPUR: Independent candidate Nirmal Tandukar has been elected the chair of Lalitpur Metropolitan City Ward No. 1.
He was elected with 661 votes, defeating his nearest rival, Dhruva Tandukar of the Nepali Congress, who received 425 votes.
Chiribabu Maharjan of the Nepali Congress and Manjali Shakya of the CPN (UML) have maintained their lead in the post of mayor and deputy mayor respectively.
There are 29 wards in the metropolis.
Re-polling in Simta RM tomorrow
Voting will be held again at Bhagwati Secondary School, Khaneta Polling Center in Simta Rural Municipality-1 of Surkhet on Monday.
The polling on May 13 was withheld due to tension over the discovery of ballot papers without the signature of the polling officer.
Accordingly, voting will be held on Monday from 7 am to 5 pm, according to Election Officer Narayan Sapkota.
The Chief Returning Officer and the staff including the polling officer from the Provincial Election Office and the necessary materials including ballot papers would arrive at the polling station today.
There are 839 voters in the polling station located in east Surkhet.
NC victorious in Madhyapurthimi-2, NWPP in Bhaktapur 1 and 3
Shrikrishna Shrestha of Nepali Congress has been elected as the ward chair of ward no. 2 of Madhyapurthimi Municipality. He won with 988 votes while his nearest rival was Prakash Thapa Magar of the CPN (UML) who got polled 894 votes.
In the local level election held on Friday, Surendra Shrestha of the Nepali Congress (NC) has secured the lead for the post of Mayor with 2,799 votes while his rival Madan Sundar Shrestha of the CPN-UML has secured 2,113 votes.
In the post of deputy Mayor UML’s Uttara Nepal has secured the lead with 2,470 votes while CPN-Maoist’s Vijay Krishna Shrestha has secured 1,653 votes. The counting of votes is underway, said Assistant Polling Officer Keshav Silwal.
Similarly, the panel of NWPP including Shyam Krishna Khatri has won in Bhaktapur Municipality Ward No. 1 with 2,122 votes. In Ward No. 3, Rajkrishna Gora of NWPP has won with 2,440 votes.
