Deuba maintains constant lead but falls short to bag mandatory votes to win
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.
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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.
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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.
