INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, MAY 17Ruling coalition candidates are leading in four of the six metropolises - Lalitpur, Biratnagar,
In Kathmandu, independent candidate Balen Shah is way ahead of his nearest rival and in Bharatpur, CPN-Maoist Centre's Renu Dahal leads the
Chitwan Update: CPN-UML secures win in three local levels, coaliation leading in four
Dahal, Subedi in heated race for Bharatpur mayorship
As per the initial vote count, in Kathmandu, independent candidate for mayor, Balen Shah, continues to
lead the race with a huge margin
Until 08:30pm, Shah had got 12,877 votes, leaving his nearest rival -- UML's Keshav Sthaplit -- way behind with 6,878 votes
NC candidate Srijana Singh has got 6,101 votes.
In Lalitpur, NC candidate for mayor Chiribabu Maharjan, who is the common
candidate of the ruling coalition, leads the race with a huge margin
Maharjan, who is vying for the post a second time, has so far got 8,534 votes
UML's Hari Krishna Byanjankar trails Maharjan with 3,785 votes
Rastriya Prajatantra Party's Asta Bahadur Maharjan has got 795 votes.In Biratnagar, NC candidate for mayor Nagesh Koirala, who is the common
candidate of the ruling coalition, continues to lead the race with 10,363 votes.UML's Sagar Thapa trails Koiralawith 7,882 votes
Independent candidate Umesh Kumar Yadav has scored 3,361 votes.In Bharatpur, CPN-MC candidate Renu Dahal leads the race with 7,351 votes
UML's Bijay Subedi is not far behind with 7,028 votes
Independent candidate Jagannath Paudel has got 3,562 votes.In Pokhara, CPN (Unified Socialist) candidate Dhanraj Acharya, who is supported
by the ruling coalition, leads the race with 11,812 votes
UML's Krishna Thapa trails Acharya with 10,062 votes
Rastriya Prajatantra Party candidate Shankar Kharal has got 1,721 votes.In Birgunj, Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal candidate for mayor
Rajeshman Singh, who is supported by the ruling coalition, has polled 9,768 votes.UML's Bijay Kumar Sarabagi has got 4,246 votes.Sarabagi,
who resigned as the mayor of Birgunj to contest the mayoral race for the second time, had defected from the JSP-N and joined the UML
RPP's Girish Giri has got only 341 votes.Till 6:00pm, the NC had won mayoral race in 156 rural municipalities/municipalities followed by
CPN-UML's 104, CPN-MC's 76, CPN (Unified Socialist)'s five, and Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal's four.A version of this article appears in the
print on May 18, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
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