Kathmandu, March 9 -- The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has consolidated its lead in the House of Representatives election, winning 125 FPTP seats, making it the largest party in the House.

Of the declared FPTP results so far, the Nepali Congress has won 18 seats, the CPN-UML has won eight seats and is leading in one constituency, and the Nepali Communist Party has secured seven seats. The Shram Sanskriti Party has won three seats, the Rastriya Prajatantra Party has one seat, and independent candidate Mahabir Pun has won from Myagdi.

Under the proportional representation vote count, a total of 9,612,758 votes have been counted so far. The RSP leads with 4,641,131 votes around 48 percent of the valid votes, followed by the Nepali Congre...