Kathmandu: In a stunning electoral result, Dr. Lekh Jung Thapa of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won the parliamentary seat from Rupandehi District constituency 3 by an overwhelming margin of more than 50,000 votes—possibly the largest victory margin in Nepal’s parliamentary election history.
According to the final vote tally, Thapa secured 58,894 votes in the House of Representatives of Nepal election. He defeated Nepali Congress candidate Sushil Gurung by a massive margin of 50,459 votes. Gurung received just 8,435 votes. Meanwhile, Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist) candidate Basudev Ghimire finished third with 8,275 votes, while Gaurav Bohara of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party secured 7,788 votes.
The victory surpasses several high-profile margins recorded in previous elections. In the 2022 parliamentary election, K. P. Sharma Oli, chairman of CPN-UML, won from Jhapa District constituency 5 with 52,319 votes and a margin of 28,576—then considered one of the largest victories. Before Thapa’s result, one of the biggest landslide wins in recent years belonged to Rabi Lamichhane, who won the 2023 by-election in Chitwan District constituency 2 by 42,962 votes, securing 54,176 votes against Nepali Congress candidate Jit Narayan Shrestha, who received 11,214 votes. Lamichhane had also earlier won the same seat in the 2022 election by a margin of 34,170 votes.
Large electoral margins have appeared in Nepal’s past as well. In the 2017 election, Oli recorded a margin of 28,842 votes in Jhapa-5. Leaders such as Barshaman Pun and Sher Bahadur Deuba also secured significant victories in the 2017 and 2022 elections. Even earlier, Baburam Bhattarai achieved a historic landslide in the 2008 Constituent Assembly election from Gorkha District, winning 46,272 votes—about 83 percent of the ballots cast in the constituency.
The 2026 parliamentary election has seen several other major victories for RSP candidates, highlighting the party’s sweeping momentum nationwide. In Rupandehi-2, RSP candidate Sulav Kharel stunned CPN-UML vice-chair and former finance minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel. Kharel received 56,550 votes while Paudel managed only 12,861.
In Morang-6, RSP’s Rubina Acharya defeated Nepali Congress leader Shekhar Koirala by more than 42,000 votes. Acharya secured 55,513 votes, while Koirala was limited to 12,850. In Dhanusha-3, RSP candidate Manish Jha defeated Nepali Congress leader Bimalendra Nidhi, winning 43,988 votes to Nidhi’s 16,652.
Party chairman Rabi Lamichhane also registered a commanding victory from Chitwan-2 with 54,402 votes, defeating Nepali Congress candidate Meena Kumari Kharel by nearly 40,000 votes. In Bara-4, RSP’s Rahbar Ansari won with 41,200 votes against CPN-UML’s Krishna Kumar Shrestha. In Bara-3, Arvind Sah secured 40,617 votes, while former Nepali Congress minister Farmullah Mansur received around 10,000.
Similarly, in Morang-4, RSP candidate Santosh Rajbanshi defeated former Nepali Congress general secretary Gururaj Ghimire by more than 28,000 votes, securing 40,833 votes. In Kaski-3, RSP’s Bina Gurung won with 37,750 votes, comfortably defeating CPN-UML candidate Manoj Gurung.
These results underscore a major electoral surge for the Rastriya Swatantra Party, as its candidates record sweeping victories and unseat several long-established political figures across the country.
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