Kathmandu, May 23: Although a week has elapsed since the May 14 local level election was held, only 50 per cent of the votes have been counted so far in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC).
The first phase of local level election was held across various 34 districts in province no 3, 4 and 6, including the Kathmandu Valley.
The vote counting that started the next day of the election has seen vote counting of a total of 96,441 votes for the KMC, according to the Chief Election Officer, Dipendra Adhikari. Although 279,316 voters were registered with the KMC, only 73 per cent of them had cast their ballot.
The vote counting is being carried out in various 13 places inside the Rastriya Sabha Griha in Kathmandu. Although vote counting is being done round the clock by different groups in shift, there has been delay due to the large size of ballot paper, said Adhikari.
The 51 cm long and 73 cm wide ballot paper has been consuming significant amount of time for counting as the earlier ones used to be relatively smaller and handy, according to the ECN. Surprising as it may sound, it takes around three minutes on an average to count a single vote, said Chief Election Officer Adhikari.
It is estimated that whole vote counting may take another five days. Of the total 32 wards in KMC, vote counting of 12 wards has been completed. RSS
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