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The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has led the vote counts in Surkhet- 2 under the proportional representation (PR) system.

According to the Karnali Province Office of the Election Commission, RSP became the first in the constituency by getting 33,699 votes under the PR system. 

Information Officer of the Office, Nandaram Chaulagain, shared that Nepali Congress secured 14,320 votes, CPN-UML got 12,062 votes and Nepali Communist Party obtained 4,289 votes from Surkhet-2.  

Likewise, Shram Sanskriti Party received 2,271 votes and Rastriya Prajatantra Party garnered 2,125 votes.

Of the total 128,467 voters, 73,113 voters cast their votes in the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) held on March 5.  

Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate for the House of Representatives election Kabindra Burlakoti won the House of Representative election from Gorkha-2. 

He achieved 26,660 votes to secure the victory. 

Burlakoti's nearest rival Prakash Chandra Duwadi of the Nepali Congress collected 11,700 votes, according to election officer Mohan Prasad Belbase. 

Similarly, Nepali Communist Party's Lekhnath Neupane got 11,073 votes. He is followed by CPN-UML's Milan Gurung with 3087 votes.

Out of 108,533 voters listed for election, only 57,156 had cast ballots. 

Among the ballots cast, 3,000 voters were invalid, according to the election officer's office.

Over 6,000 votes were invalid in Tanahun district's two constituencies in the March 5 elections to the House of Representatives. 

A total of 6,252 votes were declared invalid in both constituencies. 

The District Election Office, Tanahun informed that although voter education programs were conducted in all wards across the district by mobilizing volunteers, the number of invalid votes could not be minimized. 

Bikash Lamsal, Election Officer in the district, shared that 2,730 votes were found invalid in Tanahun 1, and 3,522 in constituency 2. 

Constituency 1 had a total of 126,882 voters of which 68,149 votes were cast. Among them, 65,419 votes were valid. 

Likewise, out of 66,100 votes cast in constituency 2, altogether 62,579 votes were valid. 

Election Officer Lamsal said that the votes were invalid due to various reasons such as multiple markings on the ballot paper, stamping in the wrong place and submitting blank ballot papers. 

Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate Shreedhar Pokharel has won election to the House of Representatives from Bardiya-2..

He collected 29,678 votes to secure victory. 

His nearest rival Kishor Singh Rathaur of the Nepali Congress collected 20,400 votes.

Similarly, Suresh Panth of the Nepali Communist Party got 19,180 votes and CPN-UML's Bimala BK got 10,772 votes.

A total of 92,618 votes were cast in this constituency, among which, 4,488 votes were invalid, according to election officer Bishnu Prasad Ghimire.