General Secretary of the Nepali Congress and alliance candidate Bishwa Prakash Sharma has won the election to be a member of the House of Representatives from constituency no 1 of Jhapa district.

He won with a wide margin of 14,275 votes. Sharma collected 39,624 votes while his nearest contender Agni Kharel of CPN UML got 25, 3 49 votes, according to election officer Tanka Bahadur Mahat.

Kharel is a UML standing committee member.