CPN-UML General Secretary Ishwor Pokhrel has won from Kathmandu-5 with a wide margin against Nepali Congress (NC)'s Prakash Sharan Mahat.

With the victory of Pokhrel, the counting of all 10 federal constituencies of the district is over.

Pokhrel defeated Mahat with a margin of 9,860 votes. He received 23,029 votes while Mahat got 13,169 and Ujjwal Thapa of Bibeksheel Sajha Party got 6,813 votes.

Pokhrel was defeated twice from the constituency in both Constituent Assembly polls of 2008 and 2013 with NC's Narahari Acharya.

UML has won six of the ten constituencies of Kathmandu including Madhav Kumar Nepal in 2, Krishna Rai in 3, Pokhrel in 5, Rambir Manandhar in 7, Jivan Ram Shrestha in 8 and Krishna Gopal Shrestha in 9. UML had fielded seven candidates while Maoist Centre has fielded three candidates in 1, 6 and 10.

NC's Gagan Thapa defeated UML’s Rajan Bhattarai in Kathmandu-4.

Similarly, NC senior leader Prakashman Singh won Kathmandu-1, Bhimsen Das Pradhan defeated Maoist Centre's Jhakku Subedi in Kathmandu-6 and NC's Rajan KC defeated Maoist Centre's Hitman Shakya in Kathmandu-10.