INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, MAY 14In most of the voting centres across the country, voting was conducted peacefully on Friday and
counting of votes began on Saturday at most of the local levels.
All eyes on Bharatpur as vote count begins
Counting of votes of Kathmandu metropolis begins
Counting of votes has started from Ward No 1 in Lalitpur Metropolitan City after the
decision of an all-party meeting held at 7:00am.
Chiribabu Maharjan from the Nepali Congress, Hari Krishna Byanjankar from
the CPN-UML and Asta Bahadur Maharjan from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party have contested for the mayoral post of Lalitpur Metropolitan City
while Manjali Shakya (Astha) from CPN-UML, Baburaj Bajracharya from the CPN-Maoist Centre and Swornima Shakya from the Rastriya Prajatantra
Party are vying for the post of deputy mayor.Likewise, counting of votes has started in 11 of the 17 municipalities in Morang district too
from today.Counting has started in Belbari, Urlabari, Rangeli, Sunvarshi and Letang municipalities of Morang, said Leban Kashyap Adhikari,
chief of the provincial election office in Biratnagar.Similarly, other rural municipalities where counting of votes has started are in
Jahda, Dhanpalathan, Gramthan, Katahari, Kanepokhari and Miklajung.Meanwhile, preparations are under way to start the counting of votes in
the Biratnagar Metropolitan City, according to information officer at the Chief Election Office, Biratnagar, Hom Bahadur Budathoki
In Biratnagar Metropolitan City, out of 133,142 voters, 89,678 (67.35 per cent) had cast their votes.Counting of votes has started in four
out of six municipalities of the district.An all-party meeting is being held to begin counting in the two remaining municipalities as well,
said District Election Officer Goma Dhamala Ghimire
The counting of votes in Godavari Municipality and in Bagmati, Konjesom and Mahankal rural municipalities started last night.The counting
will start from 11:00am today in Mahalakshmi Municipality Counting of votes of local level election in Gokarneshwor Municipality has
started.The counting of votes has started from Ward No 1 of the municipality, where 800 votes have been counted, said Election Officer Ranju
Gautam.According to the preliminary results, the Nepali Congress candidate for the post of mayor and deputy mayor have taken the lead while
CPN-UML candidate is leading in the post of ward chair.Of the total 33,989 voters in the municipality, 24,242 votes cast their votes, This
is 71.32 per cent voter turnout.Similarly, Vote count in Pokhara Metropolitan City has also begun at 4:15pm today evening
It started two hours late due to various technical causes.The count began from Pokhara-12, said Nil Prasad Paneru, information officer for
the office of chief election officer
Out of the total 207,712 eligible voters in the metropolis, the voters turnout was 143,228, he said.CPN (Unified Socialist)'s Dhanraj
Acharya and the CPN-UML's Krishna Thapa are contesting for a mayoral seat in the metropolis.A version of this article appears in the print
on May 15, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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