The counting of votes for a member of the House of Representatives is underway in Ilam constituency 2.
According to the latest vote count updates, CPN (UML)’s Suhang Nembang continued leading the vote count tally with 11,078 votes as the vote count was completed in Ward 6 of Mai Municipality. Independent candidate Dambar Khadka of Nepali Congress got 7,452 votes while Dakendra Singh Thegim is trailing by 7,324 votes.
There are 115,889 voters in the Ilam-2. The voting was held in 149 polling centers, and 79 polling stations.
The turnout in by-poll held in Ilam constituency-2 for House of Representative (HoR) remained at 59.79 percent, according to the Office of the Chief Election Officer.
The Office said that a total of 69,287 voters including 35,135 men, 34,150 women and two others cast their votes in the HoR by-election.
In the HoR elections held in November 2022, the voters' turnout was 57.44 percent in Ilam constituency 2.
*We apologize for an earlier error in our report headlined ‘Ilam-2: Independent candidate takes lead against NC’s Khadka’. Any confusion caused by this error is highly regretted." - Editor
