Nepal’s oldest party leads 1st election results

KATMANDU: Nepal’s oldest political party is leading a first set of election results ahead of two prominent communist parties.

Election results announced Monday show that the Nepali congress party had won 105 of 240 directly elected seats.

Only one directly elected seat remains to be decided.

The Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) trails with 91 seats and the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has 25 seats.

The Election Commission says counting of the second sets of ballots - where voters pick a political party - has started.

Those 335 seats will be divided among the 122 competing political parties according to the proportion of total votes each gets.

The election for Nepal’s Constituent Assembly was held Nov. 19.