Swarnim Wagle, the Rastriya Swatantra Party candidate from Tanahu 1 is taking a comfortable lead over other contestants by the time around 9,246 votes had been counted.
Wagle has polled over 5019 votes while his nearest rival Gobinda bhattarai of Nepali Congress has polled around 2351 votes.
CPN-UML’s candidate Sarbendra Khanal is way behind with just 1549 votes.