Over 4,600 votes remain invalid in Kaski
In the House of Representatives (HoR) elections held on March 5, a total of 4,698 votes remained invalid in Kaski.
Out of a total of 191,425 votes cast in the district's three constituencies, 186,727 votes were valid, according to Rudra Neupane, Information Officer at the Provincial Election Office in Pokhara.
According to him, the percentage of invalid votes is 2.45 percent. In Kaski-1. Out of 71,806 votes cast, 69,954 were valid and 1,852 votes were invalid.
Similarly, in constituency 2, out of 53,395 votes cast, 52,187 were valid and 1,208 votes invalid.
In constituency 3, a total of 66,224 votes were cast. In this constituency, 64,586 votes were valid, with a total of 1,638 votes invalid, informed Neupane.
Over 3,800 votes turn invalid in Bhojpur
In the March 5 elections to the House of Representatives (HoR), over 3,800 votes turned invalid in Bhojpur district.
The District Returning Office informed that out of 57,599 votes cast under the First-Past-the-Post electoral system, 3,871 votes were found invalid.
This number accounts for 6.72 percent of the total votes.
Among the invalid votes, majority voters were found marking for more than one election symbol, according to Dikrendra Subedi, Chief of the District Returning Office.
He further shared that it appeared some voters either did not understand the voting process well or intentionally cast invalid votes.
There were a total of 125,766 registered voters in the district.
As vote counting for proportional representation is still ongoing, details of invalid votes to this category of electoral system are yet to be disclosed, the Election Office said.
HoR elections: PR vote counting of eight constituencies yet to begin
The counting of proportional representation votes for eight constituencies under the House of Representatives elections held on March 5 is yet to begin.
According to the Election Commission, counting for proportional representation in eight electoral constituencies, including Sankhuwasabha, Ilam 1, Achham 2, Bajura, Gorkha 1 and 2, Dhanusha 1 and 2, is yet to begin, informed EC spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai.
He also informed that the counting for proportional representation in Dhanusha 3, Mahottari 1, Sarlahi 2, Bara 1, 2, 3 and 4, Rautahat 1, Parsa 1, 2 and 4, Rasuwa, Sindhuli 1 and 2, Dolakha, Kanchanpur 1, 2 and 3, Darchula, Dadeldhura, Bajhang, Doti, Kailali 1, Taplejung, Dhankuta, Jhapa 3, Morang 2, 3, 4 and 6, Sunsari 3, Tehrathum, Udayapur 2, Gulmi 1, Rolpa, Rukum West, Banke 1, 2 and 3, Arghakhanchi, Kapilvastu 2, Dang 2 and 3, and Parbat has been completed.
Likewise, counting of votes has also completed Tanahun, Kaski, Lamjung, Nawalparasi East 1 and 2, Mustang, Myagdi, Syangja 1, Manang, Baglung, Kathmandu 1 to 10, Bhaktapur 1 and 2, Lalitpur 1 and 3.
The EC has stated that counting of all proportional representation votes will be completed by the morning of March 11.
RSP leads PR vote count with over 3.67 million votes
A total of 7,575,193 votes have been counted so far in the Proportional Representation System of the House of Representatives member election.
As of 5:50 am today, Rastriya Swatantra Party has received the highest number of votes with 3,672,265. Similarly, Nepali Congress received 1,238,381 votes, CPN-UML 1,047,512 votes, Nepali Communist Party 538,270 votes, Rastriya Prajatantra Party 258,666 votes, and Shram Sanskriti Party 240,763 votes.
Vote counting is underway.
