Cong gets past UML in PR race
KATHMANDU, NOV 26 -
The Nepal Congress (NC), which emerged the largest party in the first-past-the-post (FPTP) poll system with 105 seats, has also taken the lead in the proportional representation (PR) system of voting. The party has left behind the CPN-UML as counting of the votes continued on Monday. The UML had been leading the count prior to this.
As the Post went to press on Monday, the NC had 999,615 votes in its kitty, according to the official website of the Election Commission (EC). The party, which secured 43.75 percent of the FPTP seats, had got 26.23 percent of the votes under the PR system as officials had completed counting over a third of the total vote count of 3.81 million. The UML had been trailing at 25.91 percent with 987,588 votes.
The UCPN (Maoist), which managed a mere 10.83 percent seats under the direct system, had so far bagged 16.08 percent (612,936) of the PR votes.
Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPPN) remained in the fourth position, while the Rastriya Prajatantra Party was in the fifth. The EC said the RPPN had so far managed to get 7.41 percent of the PR votes.
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