KATHMANDU, NOV 19 - The second election to Constitution Assembly (CA) conducted on Tuesday remained largely peaceful except for few reports of clashes amid tight security with an initial estimation of 65 percent voter turnout .
The voting that began at 7 this morning in almost all of a total 18,438 polling centres across the country concluded at 5 this evening. The election officials have been preparing to seal the ballot boxes and take it to the district headquarters for counting.
The Election Commission (EC) has estimated the voter turnout at 65 percent and the voters seemed enthusiastic everywhere.
According to EC spokesperson Bir Bahadur Rai, the election passed off peacefully in almost all the election booths across the country barring a few incidents of altercations, vandalism, explosions and booth capture in some places.
The EC has said that the counting of votes will be initiated once the ballot boxes will reach the respective headquarters. The EC has been making preparations so as to give the update of vote counting in every three hours through its website.
There were 12,147,865 voters in this CA election and 18,457 polling centers were set up for voting.
Priority was given to the senior citizens, pregnant women, nursing mothers and the disabled people in the voting, the EC stated.
Chief Election Commissioner Neel Kantha Uprety said that there was an enthusiastic participation of voters in the election and the voting is taking place in a peaceful atmosphere. He also congratulated the voters for their enthusiastic participation in the voting which, he said, has inspired the Election Commission.
He voted at the Sahakari Prashikshan Kendra, Baneshwar polling station under Kathmandu Constituency-1 at 7 AM today. Uprety was the first voter to vote at the polling booth. Similarly, other election commissioners have voted from different polling stations in Kathmandu.
Likewise, polling had closed at the Prithvi Narayan Primary School voting centre at Laha VDC in Dolpa district. There were only 61 voters at the polling booth and all of them cast their ballots, the EC stated.
It said there was encouraging participation of the senior citizens, women and people with disabilities in the voting at the various polling centres in different districts since the morning.
A 120-year-old woman Janaki Devi Panta cast her ballot at the Kamala Primary School polling centre at Dasrath Municipality in Baitadi district. So far she is the oldest person to vote in this CA election throughout the country.
Meanwhile, our district correspondents have informed that more than 70 pc votes have been cast in Bara and Udayapur districts.
Likewise, 75 pc votes have been cast on 44 polling centres in Rasuwa district, while 60 pc votes have been cast in Bhairahawa untill 3 in the afternoon.
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