Left alliance wins 27 seats, Nepali Cong 5 in Nepal polls

Kathmandu, Dec. 9 (PTI): Nepal’s Left alliance has won 27 while the ruling Nepali Congress bagged five parliamentary seats in the country’s historic polls that many hope will bring the much-needed political stability to the Himalayan nation.
According to results released by Nepal’s Election Commission, the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) has won 21 seats while its alliance partner CPN Maoist-Centre has emerged victorious in 6 seats.
The Nepali Congress, which was the largest party in the last election, has won 5 seats and the independent 1 out of the total 33 parliamentary seats whose results have been declared, officials said said.
There are a total of 165 Parliament seats and 330 provincial assembly seats under the direct election system.
In the provincial assembly, CPN-UML has won 27, Maoist Centre 19, Nepali Congress 6, Naya Shakti and independent one each.
A total of 1,663 candidates contested polls for parliamentary seats while 2,819 were in the fray for the provincial assembly seats in the historic elections that many hope will bring the much-needed political stability to the Himalayan nation.
The polls will elect 128 members of parliament and 256 members of provincial assemblies.
The house of representatives consists of 275 members, of which 165 would be elected directly under the first-past-the- post system while the remaining 110 will come through the proportional representation system.
“The Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) succeeded with the logistical preparations as well as the operational aspects of conducting the elections in two phases, despite the date for the election set by the government just 97 days before the first election date,” the European Commission Election Observation Mission has said.
Voting in two-phased parliamentary and provincial assembly elections were held on November 26 and December 7.