KATHMANDU, April 25: Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) candidate in Tanahun-1 Dr. Swarnim Wagle has won the by-election with a wide margin.

Wagle, who recently quit the Nepali Congress (NC) and became a candidate for the House of Representatives from RSP, defeated NC candidate Govind Bhattarai by 14,388 votes.

While Wagle got 34,480 votes, his nearest rival Bhattarai got 20,092 votes. CPN-UML's Sarbendra Khanal, who trailed behind in third place,  received 8,555 votes.

There are 123,305 voters in Tanahun-1. More than 65,000 votes were cast in the by-election held on Sunday. Wagle secured more than 52 percent of the total valid votes cast in the by-election. 

NC candidate Bhattarai, who is in the second position, got 30 percent votes, while Khanal has 13 percent votes.

Ramchandra Paudel was elected from NC in Tanahun-1 in the parliamentary  election held on November 20. After he became the president, a by-election was held in the constituency. 

In the November election, Paudel won by getting 25,361 votes. At that time, Ek Bahadur Rana Magar of UML had received 19,981 votes, Govinda Raj Joshi, who ran as an independent candidate, got 6,886 votes and Bikas Sigdel of RSP got 6044 votes.

 
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