Final parliamentary election results are expected to arrive on Monday
Former rapper Balendra Shah, 35, better known as Balen, overtook former Nepalese Marxist Prime Minister Sharma Oli, 74, in the same constituency in the parliamentary elections. According to AFP calculations, with 85% of the votes counted in the constituency of the eastern district of Jhapa, Shah exceeded the threshold to win the seat with 59,500 votes against 16,350 for Oli, forced to resign as prime minister during the protests last September led by young people from generation Z and in which at least 77 people died.
On Saturday afternoon, almost two days after the polls closed, the seats determined with the majority are 59: Shah’s RSP party obtained 48, the Nepali Congress seven and Oli’s Marxist party two. Former Maoist guerrilla commander Pushpa Kamal Dahal has a seat for his party. Shah’s RSP is currently ahead in 71 of the remaining 106 single-member constituencies where votes are still being counted.
Of the 275 electoral seats up for grabs, 165 are chosen in single-member seats with the majority system, while another 110 are chosen through a proportional system based on party lists. The RSP would have “more than half of the votes counted so far” in the proportional system.
Electoral commission spokesman Narayan Prasad Bhattarai told AFP that the results of the majoritarian elections should be ready by Monday, but that it will take more time to know the full results.
