Mahabir Pun Elected from Myagdi with 22,850 Votes in Nepal Parliamentary Election

Former Education Minister Mahabir Pun has won the House of Representatives seat from Myagdi with 22,850 votes, defeating CPN-UML candidate Harikrishna Shrestha in Nepal’s parliamentary election.

Roshani Shrestha Pathak
Roshani Shrestha Pathak
Mahabir Pun after being elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Myagdi with 22,850 votes in Nepal’s parliamentary election.
Mahabir Pun has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Myagdi after securing 22,850 votes in Nepal’s parliamentary election.

Former Minister for Education, Science and Technology Mahabir Pun has been elected as a member of the House of Representatives from Myagdi in Nepal’s parliamentary election, securing 22,850 votes, according to the final vote count.

According to the Office of the Chief Election Officer, Pun’s closest rival Harikrishna Shrestha of the CPN-UML received 7,919 votes. Karna Bahadur Bhandari of the Nepali Congress secured 6,884 votes, while Arjun Thapa of the Nepal Communist Party received 3,529 votes.

Chief Election Officer Surya Bahadur Thapa confirmed the results after the completion of the vote counting process. A total of 86,397 voters were registered in Myagdi. Of them, 46,215 votes were cast in the election held on Thursday.

Roshani Shrestha Pathak

Written by Roshani Shrestha Pathak

Roshani Shrestha Pathak is the English Bureau Chief at Khoj Samachar, overseeing English-language editorial operations and newsroom coordination.