declared to have secured only 556 votes and X votes
respectively, and 55 votes were declared to be invalid
votes.
Two days after the results ... secured only.
556 votes and 8 votes respectively. Besides the voles
secured by the contestants, 55 votes were declared to be
invalid votes.
Two days
votes as against 649 votes he was
originally held to have secured. 121 votes cast in his
favour had been found to be invalid votes ... secured 1011
votes. Appellant secured 1010 votes. The difference is
only one vote. More than 100 votes were added in the
invalid votes
have been declared as invalid.
About 300 postal ballot papers have been declared by the
Returning Officer as invalid votes.
For the reasons stated above ... candidates in whose favour
the votes were cast or the particulars of those votes which
were rejected as invalid though the same were otherwise
valid
votes. At the counting it was announced that the total
number of votes polled were 15,288; 828 votes were invalid, 5 were tendered
votes ... identifying the invalid votes, votes validly
cast in favour of the election petitioner were wrongly rejected and votes
which were really invalid were accepted
those votes were invalid
votes and that since the margin was only 51 votes, wrong counting of
188 invalid votes materially affected the result ... votes secured by
the successful candidate and the candidate securing the next highest
number of votes. Not merely that. The number of votes secured
contended that the four votes were
rightly rejected and on the contrary, 7 votes of the respondent were
wrongly invalidated. In any event, the petitioner ... votes or in respect of
four votes in prayer clause (f) as claimed by the petitioner. The said four
votes are part of 23 invalidated
votes Savadi. 11. Dr. Satish Chandra: 8 votes 12. Dr. V.K. Hazarey: 7 votes 13. Dr. K.N. Velayudhan Nair: 7 votes
Invalid ... Bhasker Rao - 25 votes
2. Dr. V.P. Jalili - 23 votes
3. Dr. P. Ramachandra - 18 votes Reddy.
Invalid - Nil
On the majority of votes
votes. The Petitioner had secured 1010 votes. The difference is only one vote. More than 100 voters' votes were added in the invalid votes ... valid votes which have been treated as invalid, and which are the invalid votes that were treated as valid votes insofar as the first respondent
votes counted in favour of the petitioner and to claim any vote for him and also not entitled to claim any vote declared invalid ... these votes and also claim for himself any vote out of those votes and also out of the votes declared invalid by the Returning Officer
directing
recount of the votes. In the election petition, it is
averred that seven valid votes were treated as
invalid votes and were kept ... Booth
No.94, fifty-one votes were found valid but how
many votes were treated as invalid is not known to
him. He further stated
