(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-11 14:26

KATHMANDU -- Kathmandu Constituency-1 on Constituent Assembly (CA) elections bore the first result on Friday morning.

Constituency-1 of Nepali capital Kathmandu is the country's only constituency where voting in the CA poll took place by electronic voting machine. The counting of votes started at Thursday midnight.

According to local leading news website eKantipur, candidate of Nepali Congress, the largest party in the Interim Parliament Prakash Man Singh, has won the election.

Voting for the election to the Constituent Assembly was comparatively peaceful, with turnout estimated to reach 60 percent.

The Thursday CA elections, which were initially slated for June20,2007, were postponed and rescheduled for Nov. 22 after the Election Commission asked for more time to prepare the polls.

According to the agreement reached among Nepali political parties, 240 CA members will be elected through the first-past-the-post and 335 CA members from the proportional representational electoral system while another 26 CA members would be nominated in the 601-member Constituent Assembly.

The interim parliament of Nepal on Dec. 28, 2007 approved a bill for the third amendment to the interim constitution to declare the country a federal democratic republic. It will be implemented by the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly.