Kathmandu, March 10 -- The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has continued to maintain lead in the parliamentary vote count while it secures 125 seats under the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) category. The newly formed party to which former Kathmandu Mayor and Rapper Balendra Shah is affiliated is leading the Proportionate Representation (PR) category as well.

With counting completed in 164 out of the total 165 constituencies, RSP has won 125 seats while the Nepali Congress has secured 18 seats and the CPN-UML has won nine constituencies. The Nepali Communist Party has secured seven seats under the FPTP category.

Under the proportional representation vote count so far, the RSP has secured 4,967, 043 votes. The Nepali Congress has garnered 1, 6...