KATHMANDU: CPN-UML is currently leading the Proportional Representation (PR) vote count for the Federal Parliament followed by Nepali Congress. UML is ahead of NC by 84,414 votes according to the latest update.

So far, of the 6,050,357 votes that have been counted, UML has received 2109088 votes while NC has received 2024674. The Maoist Centre, which had left NC behind in the FPTP seats results, is more than half way behind both the parties at 812,167 votes.

Having secured a neat victory in FPTP results, UML has also been leading the PR race since the vote counting started.

The current position of the parties in order of votes received and the votes received is as follows:

PR vote-count

PARTY

VOTES

CPN-UML 

                   2,109,088

NC

2,024,674

CPN-MC

812,167

FSF-N

269,463

RJP-N

211,913

RPP

140,330

Bibeksheel Sajha         

135,473

Naya Shakti

58,700

RPP-D

46,891

RJM

35,576

Others

206,082

Total

6,050,357