Chitwan, August 5: CPN (Maoist Centre) candidate Renu Dahal has been elected to the post of Mayor of Bharatpur Metropolitan City-19. She garnered 43, 127 votes to defeat her nearest rival Devi Gyawali from the CPN (UML) who got 42,924 votes. The poll results were announced a while ago.
Dahal defeated Gyawali with a margin of 203 votes. Gyawali, who was leading the vote tally until the counting of votes of Ward No 19, relegated in the vote counting of Ward No 20.
RPP’s mayoral candidate Badri Timilsina got 6,842 votes.
Similarly, Nepali Congress candidate Parbati Shah has been elected the Deputy Mayor with 47,197 votes. Her closest contender Dibya Sharma Acharya of the UML got 39,525 votes. RPP’s deputy mayoral candidate Reena Gurung polled 7,252 votes.