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The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is leading in 70 constituencies according to the vote count released under the House of Representatives election held Thursday.

According to the Election Commission, vote counting is currently in progress in 94 constituencies and by 2 pm today, the RSP is leading in 70 constituencies, while Nepali Congress, CPN (UML) and Nepali Communist Party each are leading in six places. 

Similarly, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, the Pragatisheel Lokatantrik Party and the Shram Sanskriti Party, as well as independent candidates, are ahead in one constituency each.

So far, one candidate from RSP and one from the Nepali Congress have been victorious.

RSP's candidate Ranju Darshana has won from Kathmandu Constituency No. 1 with 15,455 votes, and Congress's Yogesh Gauchan Thakali has won from Mustang with 3,307 votes.

A candidate representative of the Rastriya Swatantra Party has died in Morang. The deceased has been identified as Durga Regmi, 50, of Rangeli-9, said SP Kabit Katuwal of the District Police Office, Morang.

According to him, he suddenly fainted at 11:45 am while having lunch near the counting site. 

He was taken to Rangeli Hospital for treatment and doctors at the hospital declared him dead.

He was the representative of the RSP candidate from Morang constituency number 2, Krishna Karki.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidates are maintaining a lead in all nine constituencies of Kathmandu as the vote counting under the House of Representatives elections continues.

According to the results received by 1 pm today, Sunil KC of RSP has secured a lead in Kathmandu-2 with 5,897 votes. His closest contender, Kabir Sharma of the Nepali Congress, received 2,206 votes, and Kuntidevi Pokharel of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party received 1,469 votes.

In Kathmandu Constituency- 3, RSP candidate Rajunath Pandey is leading with 6,584 votes. His nearest competitor, Kulman Ghising of the Ujyalo Nepal Party, has received 4,220 votes, while Ramesh Aryal of the Nepali Congress has received 2,190 votes.

Similarly, in Kathmandu-4 – RSP candidate Pukar Bom is leading with 6,284 votes. His competitor, Congress's Sachin Timilsina, has received 1,907 votes, and CPN-UML's Rajan Bhattarai has received 1,479 votes.

In Kathmandu-5, RSP's Sasmit Pokharel is ahead in the vote tally, securing 11,433 votes. His closest competitor, Pradeep Paudel of the Congress, has received 3,556 votes, and Ishwar Pokharel of the UML has received 1,908 votes.

In Kathmandu-6, Shishir Khanal of RSP has received 10,615 votes and is leading. His competitor, Congress's Sabuj Krishna Baniya Chhetri, has received 2,775 votes, and UML's Aman Kumar Maskey has received 1,612 votes.

In Kathmandu-7 constituency, RSP's candidate Ganesh Parajuli has maintained the lead by receiving 10,273 votes, followed by Prakash Shrestha of UML with 1,672 votes and Basanta Prasad Manandhar of the Nepali Communist Party with 1,389 votes.

Likewise, in Kathmandu-8, Biraj Bhakta Shrestha of RSP has received 14,751 votes. Suman Sayami of the Nepali Communist Party has received 1,995 votes and Sapana Rajbhandari of Congress has received 1,645 votes.

In Kathmandu constituency 9, Dol Prasad Aryal of RSP has maintained a lead by securing 5,559 votes while Nepali Congress's Nanumaiya Bastola received 1,116 votes and UML's Ajaykranti Shakya received 970 votes.

In Kathmandu-10, RSP candidate Pradeep Bista has maintained his lead by securing 8,508 votes. His competitor from the Nepali Congress, Himal Karki, received 2,056 votes, and Binod Shrestha of the UML received 1,221 votes.

In Kathmandu Constituency No. 1, Ranju Darshana from RSP has already won with 15,455 votes.

Vote counting under the House of Representatives (HoR) Member elections held on Thursday has begun in the Himalayan district of Manang. 

Vote counting started after ballot boxes from five polling centres in Narpabhumi Rural Municipality, the remotest area in the district, were brought to the district headquarters by army helicopter. 

Chief Election Officer Ram Prasad Poudel said that the counting of votes started after the all-party meeting.

In Manang, 54.80 percent of votes were cast. Out of a total of 7, 000 voters here, 3, 164 votes have been cast. The district election officer Jivan Kunwar said that 1, 406 women and 1, 758 men have voted.

Yogesh Gauchan of the Nepali Congress (NC) has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Mustang district securing 3,307 votes. 

According to the Office of the Election Officer in Mustang, Gauchan defeated his closest rival Indradhar Dhandu Bista of the CPN-UML by a margin of 1,504 votes.  Bista received 1,803 votes. 

Similarly, Aditya Chandra Thakali of the Rastriya Swatantra Party obtained 759 votes. 

Other candidates in fray were Kamala Lalchan of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party who gained 161 votes while Ngutuk Gurung (Tiger) of the Nepali Communist Party got 151 votes. 

Dr Surendra Sherchan of Ujyalo Nepal Party garnered 85 votes while Ajay BK of Aam Janata Party earned 9 votes. Yam Bahadur Gurung of Mangol National Organization secured 3 votes.

Voting was conducted at 39 polling centers across five local levels in Mustang district having only one constituency. The Election Commission had listed a total of 11,328 voters in Mustang. 

According to the Office of the Election Officer, out of 6,398 votes cast, 107 votes were invalid.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidates are leading in 42 constituencies as per the latest vote counting. 

According to the Election Commission, as of 12 noon, in the 54 constituencies where vote counting is currently underway, the RSP is leading in 42 constituencies, while candidates from the CPN-UML and Nepali Congress are leading in four constituencies each.

Similarly, the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) two and the Labour Culture Party are ahead in one place.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party is leading in 14 of 15 constituencies in the Kathmandu Valley. 

Ranju Darshana has won in Kathmandu-1. But the Election Commission is yet to formally announce it. 

Sunil KC in Kathmandu-2, Rajunath Pandey in Kathmandu-3, Pukar Bam in Kathmandu-4, Sasmit Pokharel in Kathmandu-5, Ganesh Parajuli in Kathmandu-7, Birajbhakta Maharjan in Kathmandu-8, and Pradeep Bista in Kathmandu-10 are leading the vote count. 

The RSP is leading in both constituencies of Bhaktapur.

Rukesh Ranjit and Rajiv Khatri are leading in Bhaktapur-1 and Bhaktapur-2, respectively. Tosima Karki and Jagdish Kharel are leading in Lalitpur-3 and Lalitpur-2, respectively. Meanwhile, Uday Shamsher Rana of the Nepali Congress is leading in Lalitpur-1.

Counting of votes in Gorkha-2 will start at 1pm at the Land and Watershed Management Office in Gorkha Municipality-8.

Ballot boxes from 23 polling stations in Gorkha-1 are still pending due to bad weather, delaying counting there. Army helicopters are on standby to transport them.

A total of 121,263 votes were cast in the district, with 64,005 in Gorkha-1 and 57,258 in Gorkha-2.