With 5,000 votes left to be counted, Acharya won the mayorship of Pokhara

POKHARA: MAY. 24 – Dhanraj Acharya, a CPN-Unified Socialist candidate, was elected mayor of Pokhara Metropolitan City. There are still 5,000 votes to be counted. However, Acharya won the election by a wide margin.

Out of the 143,226 votes cast, 138,211 votes have been counted till this morning. With 5,286 votes, Acharya leads the mayoral race. Acharya secured 56,471 votes, while CPN-Krishna UML’s Thapa polled 51,185 votes.