KATHMANDU: The Nepali Congress’ (NC) Election Committee has made public the result of the vote count for the 35 open central members under the party’s 14th general convention.
According to the final results made public Sunday evening, Dr. Shashank Koirala has won with the highest number of votes. He has received 3,836 votes.
Leaders NP Saud, Bal Krishna Khand, Uday Shumsher Rana and Ram Hari Khatiwada, among others, followed Dr. Koirala to come within the 35 seats of NC central members (open category).
Krishna Kishor Ghimire is elected at the 35th position.
Among the 35 members elected, 16 are new faces in the party’s central body whereas the rest are old central members.
A total of 99 leaders had filed their nominations to contest the polls for the 35 seats.
The votes received by newly-elected central members is as follows:
- Shashank Koirala: 3,836 votes
- NP Saud: 2,937 votes
- Bal Krishna Khand: 2,879 votes
- Udaya Shumsher Rana: 2,843 votes
- Ramhari Khatiwada: 2,832 votes
- Gyanendra Bahadur Karki: 2,820 votes
- Ramesh Lekhak: 2,780 votes
- Shankar Bhandari: 2,768 votes
- Zipchiring Lama: 2,702 votes
- Arjun Narsingh KC: 2,650 votes
- Jit Jung Basnet: 2,557 votes
- Gopalman Shrestha: 2,538 votes
- Mohan Bahadur Basnet: 2,476 votes
- Sunil Bahadur Thapa: 2,472 votes
- Nan Singh Mahar: 2,467 votes
- Dilendra Prasad Badu: 2,441 votes
- Dr. Ramsharan Mahat: 2,434 votes
- Bal Bahadur KC: 2,388 votes
- Govinda Bhattarai: 2,350 votes
- Kundan Raj Kafle: 2,279 votes
- Deepak Giri: 2,265 votes
- Surendra Raj Pandey: 2,020 votes
- Padmanarayan Chaudhary: 2,038 votes
- Rajiv Dhungana: 1,896 votes
- Guru Baral: 1,870 votes
- Sanjay Kumar Gautam: 1,867 votes
- Govind Raj Pokhrel: 1,843 votes
- Madan Bahadur Amatya: 1,830 votes
- Ajay Babu Shivakoti: 1,811 votes
- Ganesh Lama: 1,782 votes
- Dinesh Koirala : 1,781 votes
- Umesh Jung Rayamajhi: 1,776 votes
- E. Mohan Acharya: 1751 votes
- Gopal Dahit: 1,710 votes
- Krishna Kishor Ghimire: 1,707 votes
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