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CPN-UML candidates Roshani Meche and Somnath Portel emerged victorious in the National Assembly elections from the Koshi Province on Sunday. 

Meche, a candidate forwarded jointly by the Nepali Congress (NC) and UML, obtained a vote weightage of 7,173 against 2,268 secured by her nearest competitor Namita Neupane of Nepali Communist Party.  She won the election from the women's category.  

Portel, the candidate for the Dalit category, defeated his nearest competitor Khem Sundas of the Nepali Communist Party. Portel secured a vote weightage of 7,423 against 2,027 by Sundas. 

Towards the Khas Arya category, Sunil Bahadur Thapa of the Nepali Congress has been already elected unopposed. 

The Koshi Province has voters from 137 local levels: 113 from the NC, 108 from the UML, 36 from the NCP, four each from the Janata Samajbadi Party Nepal and Rastriya Prajatantra Party and two independents. 

From the province level, 29 voters belong to the NC, 40 from UML, 17 from NCP, five from RPP and one from JSP.

Names of three PA members from NCP, two from UML and one from Shram Sanskriti Party who have filed candidacy for the upcoming House of Representatives (HoR) election were removed from the voter list. 

Likewise, the suspended chair of Jhapa rural municipality over the corruption charge was barred from the voting.

Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN-UML candidates emerged victorious in the National Assembly elections held on Sunday in Karnali Province.

NC’s Lalitjung Shahi from Jumla won the election after securing votes from 26 province-level voters and 100 local-level voters. 

Similarly, Meena Rakhal from Dailekh won under the women’s category, receiving ballots from 26 members of the Province Assembly and 93 voters from the local level, according to Election Office Surkhet information officer Nandaram Chaulagain.

Shahi's nearest rival was Buddhi Prasad Sharma of the Nepali Communist Party (NCP), who secured votes from 13 province-level voters and 50 local-level voters. Likewise, Rakhal defeated Anju Mahatara of the NCP, who obtained 13 votes from the province- level and 55 from the local level.

Six ballots were declared invalid. Out of 40 voters from the Province Assembly, 39 participated in the voting. Similarly, among 158 voters from 79 local levels, 152 cast their votes.

Nepali Congress and the CPN-UML candidates emerged victorious in Lumbini Province in the National Assembly (NA) elections held on Sunday.

Ram Kumari Jhankri of the UML won the election from the women’s category, while Chandra Bahadur KC of the Nepali Congress won from the others’ category. Similarly, Basudev Ghimire of the Nepali Congress secured victory under the disabled/minorities category.

Jhankri secured a vote weightage of 6,303 against 1,362 obtained by her nearest competitor, Durga Kumari Bhandari of the Nepali Communist Party. 

Another contender, Padma Pundit of the Rastriya Janamorcha, obtained a vote weightage of 152.

Similarly, KC secured a vote weightage of 5,977 against 1,832 obtained by his nearest rival, Brihaspati Adhikari of the Nepali Communist Party. 

Bam Bahadur Khatri of the Rastriya Janamorcha received 133 vote weightage in the same election.

Ghimire, while winning the election in the disabled/minorities category, secured a vote weightage of 6,322, while his nearest contender, Sarjan BK of the Nepali Communist Party, obtained 1,601.

A total of 78 votes: 30 from female and 48 male were cast from the province level, while 208 votes were cast from the local levels. 

From the province level, five voters were absent, and from the local levels, nine voters were absent.

The Supreme Court (SC) has refused to issue an interim order in a writ petition filed by the patron of Nagarik Unmukti Party Nepal, Reshamlal Chaudhary, demanding to contest the upcoming House of Representatives (HoR) polls. 

A single bench of Justice Balkrishna Dhakal issued an order for show cause, while declining to give the interim order. 

The next hearing date of the case is scheduled for January 29. 

Chaudhary had lodged a petition at the SC on Friday challenging the Election Commission's decision to scrap his candidacy. 

The Election Commission had scrapped the nomination filed by Chaudhary as the candidate of the HoR polls from Kailali-1 after conducting an investigation into the complaint lodged against him.