KATHMANDU, March 7: Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) candidate Gyan Bahadur (Gyanendra) Shahi has won in Jumla.
Shahi defeated Naresh Bhandari of the Nepali Communist Party by a margin of 3,081 votes. While Shahi got 14,816 votes, Bhandari stopped at 11,635 votes.
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Nepali Congress candidate Deep Bahadur Shahi got 7,143 votes and UML candidate Shantilal Mahat stood fourth with 4,518 votes.
RSP candidate Binita Kathayat got only 421 votes. Kathayat was earlier a proportional member of parliament of the RSP.
