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The Rastiya Swatantra Party (RSP) has taken the lead in 14 of the 15 constituencies in the Kathmandu Valley in the preliminary vote count of the House of Representatives election.

RSP candidates are leading in 10 constituencies in Kathmandu, including Ranju Darshana, Sunil KC, Rajunath Pandey, Pukar Bam, Sasmit Pokharel, Shishir Khanal, Ganesh Parajuli, Birajbhakta Maharjan, DP Aryal, and Pradeep Bista.

In Lalitpur, Jagadish Kharel and Tosima Karki are ahead, while Udaya Shumsher Rana of the Nepali Congress leads in Lalitpur-1. In Bhaktapur, Rukesh Ranjit is leading in Constituency-1 ahead of Prem Suwal, while Rajiv Khatri is ahead in Constituency-2, with Mahesh Basnet of the CPN trailing.

Prime Minister Sushila Karki has congratulated all Nepali people for the successful conduct of the House of Representatives elections. 

The voting was historically peaceful with enthusiastic participation of people, which she argued, gave a democratic and constitutional solution to the country.  

Taking to social networking site (Facebook) following the conduct of election on Thursday, PM Karki, said, "Thanks to able leadership of Election Commission, high morale of security persons with utmost loyalty to nation, devotion of my Council of Ministers and of civil employees, positive cooperation of political parties and their candidates, support and help of international community and the watchdog role of media."

The PM also expressed high respect to the martyrs of various movements, injured ones, and devotion, restraint and commitment of Gen Z to democracy.

The Head of government also extended special gratitude to the President for his guardianship.

Sudurpaschim Province recorded 51.37 percent voter turnout in the House of Representatives elections held on Thursday.

The Province Election Office informed that the voter turnout in Kailali was 55. 35 percent, while it was 58.96 percent in Kanchanpur, 40.87 percent in Doti, 39.18 percent in Achham, 51.61 percent in Bajura, 49.15 percent in Dadeldhura, 46.44 percent Bajhang, 46.77 percent in Baitadi and 53.75 percent in Darchula.

The Election Commission had listed over 1.7 million (total 1716,660) voters in Sudurpaschim Province, while 881, 000  plus (total 881,953) cast their ballots.

Meanwhile, the province election office informed that after the collection of ballot boxes, an all-party meeting would be held and vote counting begun. The collection of ballot boxes is underway. 

The police informed that it would, however, take time to ferry the ballot boxes from mountainous areas of Darchula, Bajhang and Bajura districts to the respective vote counting stations.  

Spokesperson at Sudurpaschim Province Police Office, Padam Bahadur Bogati, informed that efforts were on to ferry the ballot boxes from 10 voting centers by helicopter.

Chitwan district recorded 64.12 percent voter turnout in the elections to the House of Representatives held on Thursday.

In the voting held across three constituencies of the district from 7 am to 5 pm, a total of 283,428 voters cast their ballots, according to Ganesh Aryal, Chief District Officer (CDO), Chitwan. 

Among them, 67.25 percent of voters were female and 60.89 percent male, informed CDO Aryal. 

Ballot boxes from all constituencies will arrive at the vote counting station by 10 pm tonight, Aryal said.  

The Election Commission has completed preparation for vote counting which, he added, will begin after holding a discussion with the electoral candidates or their representatives. 

Counting of votes for constituency no 1 will take place at Bhuwani Shankar Multiple College at Khairahai while votes cast in constituency no 2 will be counted at Exhibition Centre of the Federation of Industries, Bharatpur.

Likewise, votes from constituency no 3 will be counted at Agriculture and Forest Science University, Rampur.

The three constituencies had listed 442,082 voters. Among them, 217,314 were male, 224,766 female and two belonged to the third gender. 

There were 494 polling centers and 162 polling stations set up across these constituencies. A total of 64 candidates contested in the district in today's election.

As the voting is over, the process to bring ballot boxes from respective polling stations to the designated vote counting centres is underway. 

In the previous parliamentary election in 2022, there were 408,343 voters registered in Chitwan and the voter turnout was reported at 67.14 percent.

China congratulated Nepal on the peaceful, orderly, and smooth House of Representatives election.

It praised the Nepali people for exercising their democratic rights and acknowledged the efforts of the authorities and all sectors involved.

China wished Nepal stability, development, and prosperity, and expressed that it always stands with Nepal.

India has welcomed the successful conduct of elections and the exercise of their democratic mandate by the citizens of Nepal, which have seen enthusiastic participation.

We congratulate Prime Minister Sushila Karki, the Government and the people of Nepal, as well as various stakeholders, for successfully holding these polls, which took place against the backdrop of exceptional circumstances last year, India said in a press statement.

India has consistently supported peace, progress, and stability in Nepal and, in keeping with our commitment, provided logistical supplies as per the request from the Government of Nepal for these elections, the statement says. We look forward to working with the new Government of Nepal to further build on the robust multifaceted ties between our two countries and peoples for mutual benefit. 

President Ram Chandra Paudel has expressed happiness over the peaceful conduct of voting under the House of Representatives elections today.

The HoR elections will give an exit to the adverse situation emerging in the country, he hoped. 

The Head of State thanked the government, Election Commission , security personnel, political parties, voters, civil employees, and entire Nepali sisters and brothers for their active role in making the voting successful, President's Press Advisor Kiran Pokharel said. 

The ballot boxes from the concerned polling stations are being supplied to the Offices of the Returning Officers in Jhapa district. 

Following the conclusion of voting at 5 pm today, the Election Commission has begun transporting ballot boxes to counting centers

District Election Officer of Jhapa Tulsi Nepal said that vote counting will begin as per the decision of the all-party meeting that will take place after the collection of the entire ballot boxes.

Nepal added that vote counting will begin from midnight today.

As per the preliminary report, the district recorded nearly 65 percent voter turnout. 

According to the District Election Office, the voting concluded in all five constituencies in the district in a peaceful manner.