DARCHULA: Dhan Bahadur Kunwar of Nepali Congress has won the post of ward chair of Duhun Rural Municipality-5 of Darchula in the by-elections held today.
Kunwar of the Congress won with 376 votes. His nearest rival, Mansingh Badal of CPN (UML) got 363 votes, according to Election Officer Pushparaj Pandey. Likewise, Bir Singh Karki of CPN (Maoist Centre) got 98 votes and independent candidate Lal Singh Kunwar got 25 votes. A total of 15 votes were invalid in the election.
In the by-election, out of a total of 1,272 voters, 877 (69.94 percent) votes were cast. The by-election was held after the death of Manorath Bhatta, the ward president elected from the Maoist center in the local level elections held in 2079 BS.
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