Around 61 percent of voters cast their votes in the parliamentary and provincial elections held across Nepal on November 20.
Organizing a press briefing in the evening, after voting completion, Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya informed 61 percent voter turnout was based on the preliminary data and the percentage could increase after complete data collection.
Thapaliya said elections were held peacefully across the country except for some incidents of violence in some districts.
The CEC said elections were postponed at 15 polling booths in Surkhet, Gulmi, Nawalparasi East and Bajura due to clashes between rival party workers.
Most of the places where elections were postponed, re-election would be held in the next two days but in others, the commission will conduct re-voting only in the next 3-4 days as the EC might need to print new ballot papers for those places.
As there are reports from multiple places that some stamped parliamentary and provincial ballot papers were put in wrong boxes, owing to voters’ lack of information and government employees’ negligence, the EC is counting the FPTP ballot papers and proportional representation ballot papers simultaneously.
Thapaliya said that the EC is confident that it would be able to count all votes across the country in next eight days.
