Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Chairman Rajendra Lingden has been reelected to the House of Representatives (HoR) from Jhapa-3.
He defeated Krishna Prasad Sitaula of Nepali Congress by 3,276 votes.
Lingden secured 40,648 votes while Sitaula received 37,372 votes. He was supported by CPN-UML this time just as in 2017.
Lingden had defeated Sitaula in the HoR election five years ago too.