165 seats of the country’s 275-member House of Representatives are elected by direct voting, while the remaining 110 seats are elected through the proportional election system.
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Nepal Of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba Of Nepali Congress The ruling coalition led by Nepal’s parliamentary elections I maintained my lead. So far, results of 150 seats have been declared under the direct vote election system, out of which the Nepali Congress-led alliance has won 77 seats.
165 seats of the country’s 275-member House of Representatives are elected by direct voting, while the remaining 110 seats are elected through the proportional election system. To get a clear majority in the House, a party or coalition needs 138 seats.
Nepali Congress won 51 seats in direct voting system
The Nepali Congress alone won 51 seats under the direct voting system. Its allies CPN-Maoist Center and CPN-Unified Socialist won 16 and 10 seats. Democratic Socialist and National People’s Front got four and one seat respectively. All of them are part of the ruling coalition. The CPN-UML-led opposition alliance led by former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli got 49 seats.
CPN-UML has won 38 seats. While its allies Rashtriya Prajatantra Party and Janata Samajwadi Party have won six and five seats respectively. The newly formed Rashtriya Swatantra Party has won seven seats. Nagrik Unmukti Party has got 30 seats while Nepal Workers and Peasants Party and Janmat Party have won one-s seat. Five seats have gone to the independents.
On the other hand, in the calculation of proportional system, CPN-UML was still leading with a total of 19,11,527 votes. The Republica newspaper reported that the Nepali Congress came second with 18,39,884 votes, while the CPN (Maoist Centre) came third with 8,11,315 votes. Elections to the House of Representatives and seven provincial assemblies were held on Sunday. The counting of votes started on Monday.
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