{"id":426135,"date":"2026-03-09T05:51:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=426135"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:13:59","slug":"over-6000-votes-invalid-in-two-tanahu-constituencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/03\/09\/426135.html","title":{"rendered":"Over 6,000 Votes Invalid in Two Tanahu Constituencies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Damauli, March 8:<\/strong> More than 6,000 votes were declared invalid in two constituencies of Tanahu district during the House of Representatives election held on March 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the District Election Office, a total of 6,252 ballots were invalidated across the two constituencies despite voter education programmes conducted in all wards with the help of volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District Election Officer Bikash Lamsal said 2,730 votes were invalid in Tanahu Constituency No. 1, while 3,522 votes were rejected in Constituency No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Constituency No. 1, there were 126,882 registered voters, of whom 68,149 cast their votes. Among them, 65,419 ballots were considered valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, in Constituency No. 2, 66,100 votes were cast, out of which 62,579 were valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Election Officer Lamsal said ballots were declared invalid due to several reasons, including multiple markings on the ballot paper, stamps placed in incorrect locations, and submission of blank ballot papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damauli, March 8: More than 6,000 votes were declared invalid in two constituencies of Tanahu district during the House of Representatives election held on March 5. According to the District Election Office, a total of 6,252 ballots were invalidated across the two constituencies despite voter education programmes conducted in all wards with the help of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":371844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,1120,3,4],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-426135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-update","category-election-2026","category-english","category-en-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426136,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426135\/revisions\/426136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426135"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=426135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}