In the House of Representatives election held on March 5, Kathmandu, the district with the highest literacy rate, recorded 8,197 invalid votes.
Thakur Prasad Bhattarai, the District Election Officer in Kathmandu, reported that 1,226 votes were annulled in Kathmandu-10, which has 83,301 registered voters. Out of the 60,441 votes cast in this constituency, 59,215 were deemed valid.
In Constituency-9, a total of 933 votes were invalid, with 52,740 votes cast from a total of 78,495 voters, resulting in 51,807 valid votes.
In Constituency-8, 623 votes were invalid, with a total of 57,811 voters. From 54,794 votes cast, only 37,171 were valid. Constituency No. 7 saw 805 votes rejected, with 44,857 votes cast from a total of 68,685 voters, leading to 44,052 valid votes.
In Constituency-6, 811 votes were invalid, with 45,248 votes cast from a total of 67,759 voters, resulting in 44,437 valid votes, as per the District Election Office in Kathmandu.
Constituency-5 had 902 rejected votes, with 51,969 votes cast from a total of 78,114 voters, yielding 51,067 valid votes.
In Constituency-4, 862 votes were invalid, with 50,963 votes cast from a total of 76,251 voters, resulting in 50,101 valid votes.
Constituency-3 had 940 rejected votes, with 44,190 votes cast from a total of 64,479 voters, leading to 43,250 valid votes.
In Constituency-2, 1,095 votes were invalid, with 59,441 votes cast from a total of 88,708 voters, resulting in 58,346 valid votes.
Finally, in Constituency-1, 434 votes were invalid, with 32,314 votes cast from a total of 55,292 voters, yielding 31,880 valid votes.
The commission has declared that it will release information on Tuesday, following the tallying of all votes, concerning the overall count of invalid votes nationwide.
According to the most recent data, it is projected that three to four percent of the votes were invalid, commission's deputy spokesperson Kul Bahadur GC told Rastriya Samachar Samiti.
He also mentioned that by this evening, a total of 9,523,000 votes under the proportional system have been counted.
