Vote count begins in Hetauda sub-metropolis

KATHMANDU, May 13: Vote count of Hetauda sub-metropolis is currently underway. An all-party meeting held on Friday had taken a decision to initiate the vote count on Saturday morning. The vote count is currently being held at Siddhartha Secondary School of Hetauda-2. According to the Hetauda Election Office, the vote count is being conducted in four places in the metropolis. In the local polls held on Friday, 65 percent of total votes of the sub-metropolis were casted.  

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RPP overtakes coalition candidate, maintains lead in Hetauda sub-metropolis

KATHMANDU: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has taken the lead in Hetauda Sub-metropolitan City. The RPP has overtaken Meenakumari Lama, a candidate from the ruling coalition who took the lead for about 24 hours. RPP candidate Deepak Singh has managed to maintain the lead in the vote count of wards 2, 18 and 19 in […]

UML leads vote count in Hetauda, CPN (MC) in Jeetpur Simara

KATHMANDU, May 13: CPN-UML is currently leading the vote count in Hetauda Sub-Metropolitan City. Of the 145 votes counted so far, Ananta Poudel, UMl’s candidate for the post of mayor, is ahead with 53 votes. His nearest contender was Mina Kumari Lama, candidate of CPN (Unified Socialist) with 51 votes. Likewise, Rajesh Baniya, candidate of the ruling alliance for the post of deputy mayor has collected 66 votes while his nearest contender Sumitra Kafle, CPN-UML’s candidate, got 62 votes. Similarly, in Jeetpur Simara sub-metropolis, the candidate of the ruling alliance has taken the lead in the vote count.  Rajan Poudel, CPN (Maoist Center)’s candidate for the post of mayor and Mega Shahi, Nepali Congress’s candidate for the post of deputy mayor have garnered 543 votes each.

Vote count kicks off in Hetauda sub-metropolis

HETAUDA: Counting of votes in Hetauda Sub-metropolis has started. The counting of votes in the sub-municipality has started from 7 am. Four rooms have been prepared for the counting of votes in 19 wards of the sub-metropolis. Chief Election Officer Shrestha said preparations are underway to start wards 1, 2, 18 and 19 together. Similarly, […]

Voting to begin to elect vacant NA member, result to come today

KATHMANDU, May 20: Voting is taking place to elect a vacant National Assembly (NA) member in Bagmati in the by-election scheduled for today. The Election Commission is committed and active to conduct the election to take place from 9.00 am to 3.00 pm in a free, fair and trust-worthy manner.  All preparation related to the election in terms of law and order, health safety protocol and other logistic arrangement has been completed, said EC spokesperson Raj Kuamr Shrestha.  A total of 348 voters including 110 province assembly members of Bagmati and 238 chairs and vice-chairs of rural municipalities and mayors and deputy mayors of municipalities under the Bagmati province are eligible to cast their votes in today’s by-election.  The weightage of a vote of province assembly member is 48 while it is 18 in case of the chairs/mayors and vice-chairs/deputy mayors in the bi-election.  The EC has urged all the voters to participate in the election of first-past-the-post system to pick a NA member. Voting will take place at polling centre kept in Bhutandevi higher secondary school in Hetauda sub-metropolis-4.  Arrangement has been made for separate voting for province assembly members, people’s representatives of local level and coronavirus infected voters. One can cast their vote by showing the voter ID card issued earlier in different elections, citizenship certificate or national ID card.  In the election, CPN-UML has fielded Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa while other political parties have jointly supported the candidacy of Dr Khimlal Devkota. Likewise, Krishna Bahadur Tamang has filed his candidature on behalf of Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party.  According to the EC, the vote count result will also come today. Arrangement has been placed in a way to announce the by-election result through virtual mode, informed Chief Election Officer Justice Dilliratna  Shrestha.  Vote count will begin from 5.00 pm this evening. All health safety protocol will be strictly followed during voting, EC sources said.