KATHMANDU, May 24: Balen Shah, independent mayoral candidate has garnered as many as 50,339 votes as of 3 PM this afternoon.
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 30,954 votes while Keshav Sthapit of CPN-UML has got 30,336 votes.
Sunita Dangol, deputy mayoral candidate of CPN-UML, has collected 54,091 votes while her nearest contender Rameshwar Shrestha of CPN (Unified Socialist) has got 18,655 votes.