Direct Election Vote Counting Concludes for House of Representatives Polls; Rastriya Swatantra Party Dominates

Kathmandu. The vote counting for the direct (first-past-the-post) system under the House of Representatives election has concluded. The counting under this system finished on Monday after the final vote results from Sankhuwasabha were made public.According to the final results, out of 165 constituencies, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) secured victory in 125 seats. Similarly, the Nepali Congress won 18 seats, CPN-UML won 9, CPN (Maoist Centre) won 8, Shram Sanskriti Party won 3, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) won 1, and one independent candidate was elected.Older forces, including the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, have significantly shrunk in this election, while the...