Gagan Kumar Thapa secured the highest number of votes at the Nepali Congress’s 15th general convention, winning the party presidency with 6,584 votes and defeating his rival Shyam Krishna Khadgi, who received 375.

Thapa secured 93.9 percent of the votes cast for the presidency, compared with 5.4 percent for Khadgi.

The top 10 vote-getters among those elected at the convention include the party president, central committee members, a woman vice-president and joint general secretaries representing different categories.

Lalitpur Metropolitan City Mayor Chiribabu Maharjan, elected as a central committee member under the open category, ranked second with 5,330 votes, or 77.5 percent.

Basana Thapa came third with 5,193 votes, or 74 percent, followed by Hariprabha Khadgi, elected as a woman central committee member from Bagmati Province, with 5,126 votes, or 73.8 percent.

Pratima Gautam, elected as the woman joint general secretary, ranked fifth with 5,116 votes, or 72.9 percent. Nishcal Rai, elected as an open-category central committee member, came sixth with 4,956 votes, or 72 percent.

Prakash Rasaili ‘Snehi’, elected as the Dalit joint general secretary, ranked eighth with 4,803 votes. Tirtha Lama, elected as a Janajati central committee member, received 4,853 votes, according to the results.

Indra Bahadur Baniya, elected as an open-category central committee member, ranked ninth with 4,732 votes, or 68.8 percent.

Engineer Subas Poudel, elected as a youth central committee member representing under-35s from Gandaki Province, completed the top 10 with 4,549 votes, or 65.8 percent.