KATHMANDU: The CPN-UML is leading in the vote count under proportional representation garnering 24,41,838 votes so far followed by Nepali Congress with 23,18,741 votes.
Similarly, CPN Maoist has been able to secure the third position with 10,16,010 votes.
The fourth party in rank to get proportional votes is Rastriya Swatantra Party which also collected 10,08,240 votes.
Similarly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party received 527,245 votes, Janata Samajbadi Party 303,152 votes, CPN (Unified Socialist) 238,925 votes, Nagarik Unmukti Party 202,278, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party 122,685 votes, Nepal Workers and Peasant Party just over 72,166 votes.
The Rastriya Janamorcha Party is in the last rank getting 44,385 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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