Maoists hold on to their lead as PR counting nears end
The Maoists have bagged 30,47,308 votes under the
Proportional Representation (PR) category, which is
29.92 percent of the total 1,01,86,262 votes cast.
Nepali Congress (NC) is in second position with
21,68,943 votes (21.29 percent) followed by Unified
Marxist Leninist (UML) with 20,88,555 votes (20.5
percent).
The Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) is in fourth
position with 597,954 votes followed by Terai Madhes
Loktantrik Party (TMLP) with 309,768 votes.
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) is in fifth position
with 253,600 votes while Rastriya Prajatantra Party
(RPP-Nepal) is in eleventh position with 106,266
votes. Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) trails
RPP-Nepal with 98,806 votes.
According to the Election Commission (EC), the PR vote
counting could be completed by Thursday.
The EC has said that after calculating the number of
seats for each party, the information will be
submitted to the parties, who can then select their
candidates from among the previously-submitted closed
lists within two weeks.
There are 335 seats on offer under the PR category. nepalnews.com sd Apr 23 08
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