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Balendra Shah-led RSP maintains wide margin as it heads for landslide vict
Updated : 1 week ago IST
Balen Shah's RSP is heading for a landslide victory in Nepal's parliamentary polls, leading in 98 seats and winning 19. Shah holds a massive lead over veteran KP Sharma Oli, as the RSP nears a simple majority, with party leaders eyeing a two-third majority of 186 seats.
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Ex-PM KP Oli votes in Nepal's high-stakes 2026 General Elections
Updated : 1 week, 2 days ago IST
Former PM KP Sharma Oli cast his vote in Bhaktapur as Nepal holds its 2026 General Elections. With 18.9 million voters and a 52% youth majority, the high-stakes polls will elect 275 lawmakers. Results for the 165 first-past-the-post seats are expected within 24 hours of counting.
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Nepal set to form new govt as Election Commission has submitted report to
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Nepal is all set to form a new government as the Election Commission submitted the final report to President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Thursday.
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CPN-Maoist Centre open to all options to form government in Nepal: Krishna
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Out of 165 constituencies under the First-Past-The-Post (FPTP), results of 163 constituencies have been announced and the Nepali Congress has secured the highest number of seats.
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Nepali Congress gets highest number of seats in general elections
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Nepali Congress has got the single highest number of seats-53 under First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) even though it had contested the election forming an alliance of five different parties, according to the latest figures of the country's Election Commission.
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Political opportunism rules as Nepal approach November 20 elections
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Political activity is gaining momentum in Nepal as November 20 elections to Federal Parliament and all the seven provincial legislatures draw closer, reported policy research group, Poreg.
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Substantive democracy as Ambedkar visualized is elusive: Hamid Ansari
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 24 (ANI): Former vice president Hamid Ansari on Saturday said electoral democracy on the FPTP (first-past-the-post) pattern is a reality but substantive democracy, as Dr BR Ambedkar visualized it, is elusive.
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Nepal: Parliamentary and Provincial polls begin today
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Baglung [Nepal], November 26 (ANI): Nepal is today holding the first phase of Parliamentary and Provincial election under new federal structure, which it adopted in 2015 with the promulgation of the new constitution.
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Nepali politicos file nominations for second phase election
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Kathmandu[Nepal], November 2 (ANI): The political parties in Nepal on Thursday filed nomination for the second phase of provincial and parliamentary election under the First-past-the-post (FPTP) election.
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