Identifier
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08KATHMANDU422
2008-04-15 07:40:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Kathmandu
Cable title:
NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: MAOISTS WINNING ROUGHLY HALF
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UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000422
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER KDEM NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: MAOISTS WINNING ROUGHLY HALF
OF INDIVIDUAL RACES
C O R R E C T I O N
FOR SENSITIVE CAPTION
REF: A. KATHMANDU 417
B. KATHMANDU 408
Constituent Assembly Election Results: Update
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UNCLAS KATHMANDU 000422
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PGOV PTER KDEM NP
SUBJECT: NEPAL'S CA ELECTION: MAOISTS WINNING ROUGHLY HALF
OF INDIVIDUAL RACES
C O R R E C T I O N
FOR SENSITIVE CAPTION
REF: A. KATHMANDU 417
¶B. KATHMANDU 408
Constituent Assembly Election Results: Update
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¶1. (U) As of noon local time on April 15, Nepal's Election
Commission has declared the results in 208 out of 240
first-past-the-post races (87 percent) from the April 10
Constituent Assembly (CA) election:
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) - 113 seats, 54 percent of
declared total
Nepali Congress (NC) - 32 seats, 15 percent
Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) - 29
seats, 14 percent
Madhesi People's Rights Forum - 21 seats, 10 percent
Other Madhesi parties - 9 seats, 4 percent
Minor left parties - 3 seats, 2 percent
Independent - 1 seat, 0.5 percent
Significant Winners
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¶2. (SBU) Two prominent NC leaders have won their
constituencies:
- Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat
- Former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba (Comment: As the
second-ranking NC leader, and with the third-ranking NC
leader, Sushil Koirala, having been defeated, Deuba is the
leading candidate to succeed Prime Minister G.P. Koirala as
NC President.)
...And Loser
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¶3. (SBU) Madhav Kumar Nepal, former General Secretary of the
UML, will not sit in the 601-member Assembly. He lost both
of his constituencies to Maoist candidates.
POWELL