RSP’s Balendra Shah Elected HoR Member from Jhapa-5, Defeats KP Sharma Oli

Senior leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), Balendra Shah, has been elected as a Member of the House of Representatives (HoR) from Jhapa Constituency No. 5, defeating former prime minister KP Sharma Oli.

Shah secured a landslide victory over Oli, who is also the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) (CPN-UML).

According to the Office of the Returning Officer, Shah received 68,348 votes, while Oli managed 18,734 votes.

In the vote count completed on Sunday evening, Samir Tamang of the Shram Sanskriti Party secured 9,233 votes. Similarly, Mandhara Chimariya of the Nepali Congress obtained 1,821 votes, while Laxmi Prasad Sangraula of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party received 1,536 votes.

Out of a total 163,379 registered voters in the constituency, 106,568 voters cast their ballots in the election held on March 5.