CPN (Maoist Centre) candidate Bina Magar has been elected to federal parliament from Kanchanpur-1.  She defeated her nearest rival candidate Dewan Singh Bista of Nepali Congress (NC) by a margin of 19248 votes.

Magar secured 38467 votes against Bista’s 19219 votes.

Bina is daughter-in-law of CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal. She was married to late Prakash. Prakash died of cardiac arrest on November 19.