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The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won 125 of the 165 seats nether nonstop voting successful Nepal's Parliamentary polls arsenic ballot counting nether the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) strategy concluded connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026), putting RSP successful a presumption to signifier a bulk government.
“However, the counting of votes nether the Proportional Representation (PR) strategy is inactive nether mode and is expected to reason by Tuesday nighttime (March 10, 2026),” the Election Commission said.
“Vote counting for each 165 seats nether the nonstop voting strategy has been completed, with the RSP emerging arsenic the largest enactment with 125 seats,” it said.
The Nepali Congress (NC) secured 18 seats, followed by the CPN-UML with nine, the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) with eight, the Shram Sanskriti Party (SSP) with 3 and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) with 1 seat. One autarkic campaigner was besides elected.
“Under the PR system, the RSP has truthful acold secured 49,74,957 votes, followed by NC with 16,85,722 votes, CPN-UML with 14,02,157, NCP with 7,63,633 votes, SSP with 3,50,809 and RPP with 3,23,744 votes,” the Election Commission said.
Based connected the existent trend, the RSP is apt to unafraid astatine slightest 50 seats nether the proportional practice system, which would instrumentality its full tally successful the 275-member House of Representatives to astir 175 seats.
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This would let the enactment to signifier a bulk authorities nether Article 76(1) of the Constitution of Nepal.
However, the Election Commission said a fewer much days would beryllium required to state the last results nether the proportional practice strategy and formally allocate seats to candidates of antithetic parties.
