Thakur Prasad Gaire of the CPN-UML has defeated Som Prasad Pandey of the CPN (Unified Socialist) to secure a House of Representatives seat from Palpa-2.
Gaire defeated Pandey by a margin of 3,966 votes. Gaire got 27,817 votes while Pandey managed to garner 23,851 votes as per the final results made public on Friday afternoon.
He is currently a politburo member and the District In-charge of the party.
In Palpa-1, Narayan Prasad Acharya of the UML secured his victory receiving 31,103 votes.
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