{"id":289924,"date":"2026-03-07T18:58:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=289924"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:15:08","slug":"balen-sets-new-record-in-jhapa-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/balen-sets-new-record-in-jhapa-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Balen sets new record in Jhapa-5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Jhapa Constituency No. Senior leader of Rastriya Swatantra Party Balen Sah has set a new record in parliamentary history by winning from constituency 5. <\/p>\n<p>Balen, who was fielded as the Prime Minister from the Rastriya Samajbadi Party (RSP), defeated CPN-UML Chairman and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli by a margin of around 50,000 votes from Jhapa-5. He garnered 68,348 votes while Oli garnered 18,734 votes. Balen&#8217;s vote share is the highest in the history of parliamentary elections. Because no one has ever received such a large number of votes in parliamentary history. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in the 2017 elections, Oli had won from the same constituency with 57,139 votes. In the 2080 by-election, Chitwan Constituency No. Rabi Lamichhane was elected from constituency 2 securing 54,176 votes. <\/p>\n<p>In this election, Morang Constituency No. Rastriya Samajwadi Party (RSP) candidate Rubina Acharya won the election with 55,513 votes while Badan Kumar Bhandari won the election from Kavre-2 with 53,344 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Jhapa Constituency No. Senior leader of Rastriya Swatantra Party Balen Sah has set a new record in parliamentary history by winning from constituency 5. Balen, who was fielded as the Prime Minister from the Rastriya Samajbadi Party (RSP), defeated CPN-UML Chairman and former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli by a margin of around 50,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":180417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289925,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289924\/revisions\/289925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/180417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}