Nepal: Rastriya Swatantra Party sweeps polls, Balendra Shah set to become PM
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The Rastriya Swatantra Party has won 119 direct seats and is leading in six more in Nepal’s parliamentary elections, consolidating its lead as the process of counting of votes neared its end, The Himalayan quoted the Election Commission of Nepal as saying.
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The Nepali Congress has won 17 constituencies, while the Nepali Communist Party of India and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) have registered seven victories each.
Polling to elect 275 members of Parliament in the country took place on Thursday.
Of the total, 165 seats are being decided through direct voting. The remaining will be allocated under the proportional representation system, with political parties nominating lawmakers based on the share of votes the parties get.
The leads on Sunday showed that the Rastriya Swatantra Party has received 22,39,870 proportional votes, nearly half of all votes cast nationwide, The Himalayan reported.
Election Commission officials had said that declaring the final result could take a week, as counting of proportional representation votes would take some time.
Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, who has been positioned as the Rastriya Swatantra Party’s prime ministerial candidate, defeated ousted Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli by more than 49,600 votes in the Jhapa-5 constituency.
Shah, 35, is the former mayor of Kathmandu.
This was the first general election in Nepal after the widespread protests in September that toppled the Oli government.
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