KATHMANDU: With more than 7.6 million votes counted under the proportional election, CPN-UML is leading with over 217,5031 votes so far followed by Nepali Congress with 209,0872 votes.
Similarly, CPN Maoist has been able to secure the third position with 921,048 votes.
The fourth party in rank to get proportional votes is Rastriya Swatantra Party which also collected 886,368 votes.
Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party received 468,403 votes, Janata Samajbadi Party 254,190 votes, CPN (Unified Socialist) 198,893 votes, Nagarik Unmukti Party 175,902 votes, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party 107,250 votes, Nepal Workers and Peasant Party just over 68,000 votes.
The Rastriya Janamorcha Party is in the last rank getting 1,159 votes under the proportional election.
There is a constitutional provision that a total of 110 members are elected to the House of Representatives via the proportional electoral system.
The vote turnout in the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly was 61 percent.
There were more than 17.9 million voters registered for the election.
For the first-past-the-post election, there were 2,412 candidates while for the proportional election under FPTP, there are 2,199 candidates in the final closed list.
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