UPDATE: Sher Bahadur Deuba constantly lead the vote count but was shy of mandatory 50 per cent plus one votes of total cast votes. Sher Bahadur Deuba: 1564 Ram Chandra Paudel: 1160 Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 324 Total votes cast: 3148 Total valid votes: 3048 Votes required to win elections: 1575 Thus , the run-off elections will be held. READ MORE:  Run-off poll to elect Nepali Congress president as Deuba falls short of 11 votes to make it 50 pc+1     Sher Bahadur Deuba: 1485 (51.03% of total votes counted) Ram Chandra Paudel: 1109 (38.1% of total votes counted) Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 316 Total votes counted: 2910 (92.44 % of total votes cast) Total votes cast: 3148 Votes required to win elections: 1575 Sher Bahadur Deuba: 1447 (51.09% of total votes counted) Ram Chandra Paudel: 1080 (38.13% of total votes counted) Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 305 Total votes counted: 2832 (89.96% of total votes countes) Total votes cast: 3148 Sher Bahadur Deuba: 1347 (51.11% of total votes counted) Ram Chandra Paudel: 1010 (38.33% of total votes counted) Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 278 Total votes counted: 2635 (83% of of total votes cast) Total votes cast: 3148   UPDATE: Sher Bahadur Deuba: 1230 (50.27% of total votes counted) Ram Chandra Paudel: 957 (39.109% of total votes counted) Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 260 ((10.62 of total votes counted) Total votes counted: 2447 (77.73% of total votes cast) Total votes cast: 3148   Senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has maintained constant and good lead against Acting President Ram Chandra Paudel and General Secretary in the race for party's president as 2242 votes, which is more than 71 per cent of total votes cast, have been counted. Sher Bahadur Deuba: 1160 Ram Chandra Paudel: 850 Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 232 Total votes counted: 2242 Total votes cast: 3148 The number of votes that Deuba has garnered is about 51.74 per cent of the total votes counted so far. Senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has maintained constant and good lead against Acting President Ram Chandra Paudel and General Secretary in the race for party's president as 2242 votes, which is more than 71 per cent of total votes cast, have been counted. Sher Bahadur Deuba: 1160 Ram Chandra Paudel: 850 Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 232 Total votes counted: 2242 Total votes cast: 3148 The number of votes that Deuba has garnered is about 51.74 per cent of the total votes counted so far. Senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has maintained constant and good lead against Acting President Ram Chandra Paudel and General Secretary in the race for party's president as 1763 votes, which is 56 per cent of total votes cast. Sher Bahadur Deuba: 930 Ram Chandra Paudel: 661 Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 172 Total votes counted: 1763 Total votes cast: 3148 The number of votes that Deuba has garnered is more than 52 per cent of the total votes counted so far. Deuba maintains lead in Nepali Congress president vote count against Paudel and Sitaula Sher Bahadur Deuba 790 Ram Chandra Paudel 550 Krishna Prasad Sitaula 147 Sher Bahadur Deuba: 733 Ram Chandra Paudel: 515 Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 135 UPDATE 3:15 am Senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has maintained lead against Acting President Ram Chandra Paudel and General Secretary in the race for party's president as 1189 votes were counted. Sher Bahadur Deuba: 619 Ram Chandra Paudel: 450 Krishna Prasad Sitaula: 120 UPDATE AT 3:15 am Deuba takes early lead in Nepali Congress president vote count Sher Bahadur Deuba:  448 Ram Chandra Paudel : 337 Krishna Prasad Sitaula:  92 UPDATE at 3:10am: Sher Bahadur Deuba has taken an early lead in the vote count. According to Nepali Congress central office secretary Pradip Parajuli, Deuba has garnered 296 votes, Ram Chandra Paudel 230 and Krishna Prasad Sitaula 59. Vote count begins for Nepali Congress president after midnight KATHMANDU: The Nepali Congress Election Committee began vote count for the party's new president after midnight. Now, the results are expected by Monday morning. READ ALSO

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As many as 3,148 party representatives had cast their votes for the new leadership of Nepali Congress in the party’s ongoing 13th national general convention, in Kathmandu, on Sunday. The Committee would begin vote count for other positions only after deciding who won the presidential race. Ram Chandra Paudel, Sher Bahadur Deuba and Krishna Prasad Sitaula have thrown their hats in the ring for the party's top position. To win the elections, 50 per cent plus one vote of the total cast votes, i.e. 1775 are required. If none of the candidates bag mandatory 1775 votes, run-off elections will be held between top two contenders.