14 November, Baitadi. About 19,771 votes had been invalidated within the House of Representatives and State Assembly elections held on November 4 in Baitadi.
According to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, the votes of the members of the House of Representatives had been immediately and proportionally and the Provincial Assembly immediately and proportionally. 77,460 votes had been solid immediately among the many members of the House of Representatives. Out of which 4,962 votes have been invalidated.
40,155 direct votes had been solid in State Assembly constituency No. 1, and a couple of,013 votes had been invalidated. 37,280 direct votes had been solid in State Assembly constituency No.2, and 1,820 votes had been invalidated.
Members of the House of Representatives solid 77,761 votes proportionally, and 5,421 votes had been invalidated. 77 thousand 4 hundred 23 votes had been solid on the proportional facet of the state meeting members and 5 thousand 55 votes had been invalidated. Due to ineffective voter schooling program, so many votes had been invalidated.
Chief of the District Election Office, Madhav Phuyal claims that voter schooling is efficient. He mentioned, ‘Votes are being invalidated even in cities like Kathmandu, right here it’s pure that votes are invalidated on this quantity. It can’t be mentioned that voter schooling just isn’t efficient.’
Fuyal mentioned that many of the invalid votes had been discovered to have swastika stamps on two or extra election symbols on the identical poll paper. He mentioned, ‘Some poll papers had been discovered to have fingerprints on them and had been invalidated, whereas most of them had been discovered to have stamps on two or extra marks.’
A voter schooling program was performed by mobilizing volunteers in all of the wards and reaching the communities for 15 days. There had been 150 thousand 156 voters in Baitadi, solely 77 thousand 460 votes had been solid.
There had been 22 candidates within the election subject on this district, which has one constituency for the House of Representatives and two constituencies for the members of the Provincial Assembly.
Here, CPN UML’s Damodar Bhandari has received within the House of Representatives and UML’s Surendra Pal has received in State Assembly Region-1 and Shivraj Bhatt of Nepali Congress has received in State Assembly Region No. 2.