Coalition candidates emerged victorious in Thursday’s upper house polls in Bagmati, Lumbini and Karnali provinces.
Nepali Congress candidates Bishnu Devi Pudasaini and Jit Jung Basnet, CPN (Moist Centre)’s Shree Krishna Prasad Adhikari, and Ghanashyam Rijal of the Samajbadi Party were elected National Assembly members.
Pudasaini, fielded under the woman cluster, garnered 6,622 votes and Basnet managed 6,531 votes.
Adhikari secured 6,383 votes while 6,512 votes were cast in Rijal’s favour. They contested under the disabled and minority clusters respectively.
Fifteen candidates from six different parties were vying for the seats.
Likewise, Maoist Centre’s Jhakku Prasad Subedi and Bishnu Kumai Sapkota of Congress were elected from Lumbini Province.
Subedi finished 2,396 votes ahead of Jhapendra Bahadur Gharti Chhetri of UML who secured 3,039 votes.
Six candidates vied for the two available seats in Lumbini Province.
In Karnali, Sabitri Malla, Bishnu BK, and Krishna Bahadur Rokaya secured National Assembly seats.
Malla, a Unified Socialist candidate, garnered 144 votes.
BK and Rokaya secured 149 and 150 votes respectively. BK contested under the Dalit cluster.
Similarly, Renu Chand of Maoist Centre emerged victorious in Sudurpaschim, garnering 4,453 votes.
NC’s Narayan Dutt Bhatta and Baldev Bohara also secured upper house seats, managing 4,419 and 4,347 votes respectively.
The term of 20 lawmakers in the 59-strong upper house is expiring on March 3. While 19 seats are filled through elections, one member will be nominated by the President on the Cabinet’s recommendation.
As many as 549 provincial assembly members and 1,498 chiefs and their deputies of the local units are eligible to vote in the upper house election. Their votes have a combined weightage of 57,559. A vote of the provincial assembly member carries a weightage of 53, whereas it is 19 each for the chief and deputy chiefs of the local units.
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