KATHMANDU, May 24: Balen Shah, independent mayoral candidate has garnered as many as 49,358 votes as of 8 AM this morning.
Shah has been continuously leading the vote count in Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) from the day one of the vote count.
Shah’s nearest contender Srijana Singh of Nepali Congress (NC) has collected 30,069 votes while Keshav Sthapit of CPN-UML has got 29,284 votes.
Sunita Dangol, deputy mayoral candidate of CPN-UML, has collected 52,809 votes while her nearest contender Rameshwar Shrestha of CPN (Unified Socialist) has got 17,884 votes.