One of the constituencies in Paro is taken over by a former minister of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and other by a local actress who won one for the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The Doga-Shaba constituency was dominated by the PDP represented by Bhutanese actress Kezang Wangmo who secured …

The Primary round of the 2013 National Assembly election saw the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) going through to the final General Election scheduled for 13th July 2013. The DPT secured the highest votes at 93,895 votes followed by PDP at 68,545 votes. Druk Nyamrup …

The Primaries in the Trashigang dzongkhag was dominated by the erstwhile ruling party, the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) who swept all but one among the five constituencies. A new entry and a new party, the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) cinched a clear victory in the Thrimshing constituency with 2,036 votes …

Despite heavy downpour in Pemagatshel huge numbers of voters turned up to vote for the primary round and this contributed to a great conquest for the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT). The DPT won all of three constituencies under Pemagatshel dzongkhag and with vast differences in votes pushing the party way …

Response to “Tariff hike to hit ordinary consumers hard”   The meltdown of the economic crisis of the Europe or global economic recession did not affect the Bhutanese population in general but it is slowly creeping in and it will definitely affect us making us poorer now. We the public …

Bhutan’s first ever primary rounds have thrown up several numbers and results subject to several interpretations. It has both confirmed and broken some conventional wisdom on the 2013 elections. One notion that was proven right was that the three top contenders are the DPT, PDP and the DNT with the …

Though the Primary round win may look like an outright DPT victory which got the most number of votes and got 33 out of 47 constituencies the political math shows that anything could be possible on 13th July 2013. This is because if most of the DNT and DCT voters …

The country’s first ever primary round was dominated by the two old parties, Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for key places in the general rounds. Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) will compete against each other for a second time after five years …

Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) make it to the final round of General Election. DPT got the maximum votes at 93,547 votes followed by PDP at 68,546 votes. Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa came third getting 36,055 votes while Druk Chirwang Tshogpa came fourth getting 12,456 votes.

The people of Orong gewog under Samdrup Jongkhar say they are dissatisfied with the performance of past government as the pledges made in 2008 have not come to fruition. This comes at a time when the parties are wooing voters to get through the primary round of elections. People say …