Votes count halts in Bajura
The counting of votes in the Himali Rural Municipality-6 Dhim polling station in Bajura was halted on Friday morning after more votes than the quota were discovered.
KATHMANDU: The counting of votes in Bajura has come to a halt. The counting of votes for representatives and the state legislature has been halted. The counting of votes is said to have been halted when more votes than the quota were discovered.
The counting of votes in the Himali Rural Municipality-6 Dhim polling station in Bajura was halted on Friday morning after more votes than the quota were discovered.
Thirty votes more were discovered in four ballot boxes aimed at the House of Representatives. Even after that, voting in the state assembly continued.
During the counting of State Assembly 2, the counting was stopped for both the representatives and the State Assembly after 98 more votes were received in the Budhiganga Municipality-3 polling station.
According to Nawaraj Awasthi, Head of District Election Office Bajura, efforts are being made to resume vote counting.
According to preliminary results, Badri Prasad Pandey of Congress leads the House of Representatives with 5,419 votes. Karna Bahadur Thapa of the CPN-UML received 4,129 votes.
In State Assembly 910, Naresh Shahi of the CPN Unified Socialists Party leads with 2 thousand 97 votes.
