The counting of votes cast under the proportional representation (PR) system for the House of Representatives (HoR) elections is underway.
As of 7:46 am today, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which has so far won 125 seats, is also leading in the PR vote counts with a wide margin.
Out of 10,297,497 votes counted so far, the party has secured 4,951,964 votes.
Similarly, the Nepali Congress (NC) has achieved 1,674,940 votes while the CPN-UML garnered 1,390,293 and the Nepali Communist Party got 753,082.
The Shram Sanskriti Party has collected 348,159 and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party achieved 322,604 votes.
As per the EC updates, the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal secured 169,447 votes, the Rastriya Pariwartan Party 165,069 and the Janamat Party has achieved 75,486 votes.
Towards the direct electoral counts, the NC has been elected in 18 seats, UML in nine, NCP in eight, Shram Sanskriti in three, RPP and an independent candidate one each.