Kathmandu. According to the latest vote count received from the Election Commission, Pradip Bista of Rastriya Swatantra Party from Kathmandu constituency-10 is leading over his nearest rival.

Out of 26,743 votes so far, Bista has got 16,430 votes while Himal Karki of Nepali Congress has got 4,213 votes and Binod Shrestha of CPN-UML has got 2,067 votes.

According to election officer Amrita Kumari Sharma, vote counting is underway in Kirtipur municipality-7 under the vote counting taking place at Tribhuvan University Memorial Building. So far, 1,127 votes have been invalidated in Kathmandu-10. A total of 60,151 lands fell in Kathmandu-10.