The counting of Constituent Assembly (CA) votes under the Proportional Representation (PR) system has been completed in Nepal on Wednesday, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported Thursday.
Updated data from the website of Election Commission (EC) of Nepal on Thursday morning showed that the Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist) (CPN-M) lead the tally with 3,144,204 votes out of the total 10,739,078 votes cast. This is equal to 29.3 percent of vote share.
Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) (CPN-UML) are in second and third positions, respectively, bagging 2,269,883 (21.1 percent) and 2,183,370 votes (20.3 percent).
The Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF) and Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party (TMLP) are in the fourth and the fifth positions, respectively, pocketing 678,327 (6.3 percent) and 338,930 votes (3.2 percent).
Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) is in the sixth position with 263,431 votes (2.5 percent).
The Election Commission (EC) of Nepal Tuesday completed vote counting under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), in which the CPN-M have won 120 out of the total 240 seats under FPTP.
The EC has said that it would apply Modified Saint Logue system to calculate exact number of seats won by these parties based on votes they have garnered.
According to the agreement reached among Nepali political parties, 240 CA members will be elected through FPTP and 335 CA members from the PR electoral system while another 26 CA members would be nominated in the 601-member Constituent Assembly.
The Constituent Assembly to be formed after the elections started on April 10, is to decide the future political setup and the fate of the monarchy of Nepal.
Source:Xinhua
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