Maoists pocket one-third votes in PR

The Maoists have maintained their lead in the vote counting under the proportional representation category.

According to the Election Commission (EC), of the total 68,00,017 votes counted till Thursday, the Maoists have garnered 21,92,681 votes, which accounts for 32.25 percent.

Nepali Congress (NC) is in second place with 14,95,535 votes (21.99 percent) followed by the Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) with 14,32,603 votes (21.07 percent).

The Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) is in fourth place with 2,53,239 votes (3.27 percent) and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) is in fifth place with 1,68,963 votes (2.48 percent).

Of the total voters of 17.6 million, sixty percent or around 10 million people had cast their votes in the April 10 Constituent Assembly (CA) election.

Based on the final PR vote count, the parties will share 335 seats proportionally. nepalnews.com sd Apr 18 08

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