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Balendra Shah elected Mayor, Sunita Deputy Mayor of  Kathmandu

 An independent candidate Balendra shah  for the post of Mayor of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has been elected with 61,767 votes.

According to the office of the chief returning officer of Kathmandu, Balen  Sah's closest rival, Srijana Singh of Nepali Congress, got 38,341 votes while Keshav Sthapit of CPN (UML) secured 38,117 votes.

The deputy mayor ofCPN (UML) has been elected with 68,612 votes.

Her nearest rival, CPN (Unified Socialist) candidate Rameshwar Shrestha got only 23,805 votes. As Srijana Singh for mayor, Shrestha was also the common candidate of the five party ruling alliance for the post of deputy mayor.

The Election Commission will, however, hold a special function to officially announce the victory of the candidates and congratulate them tomorrow morning although it unveiled the results of the vote count of the candidates and the winner today.