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
votes wherein the appellant got
336 votes and the respondent no.1 secured 335 votes and 30 votes were
found to be invalid and therefore ... votes and the
appellant got 336 votes while the respondent no.1 got 335 votes and 30
votes were found to be invalid
votes, the appellant secured 552 votes and the election-
petitioner, the nearest rival, got 550 votes. 67 votes were declared
to be invalid. The election ... 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
dealing general allegations that valid votes were improperly
rejected or invalid votes were improperly accepted, would
not serve the purpose which is provided ... para 9 of his
petition, details of wrongful reception of invalid votes
etc., with numerical precision and wonder of observation
possible under the present system
wrongly
declaring them invalid as well as by improper reception of
what otherwise would have been the invalid votes if the
Returning Officer had been ... wrongly declaring them invalid
as well as by improper reception of what otherwise would
have been the invalid votes if the Returning Officer had
been
votes were
polled in all. J. B. Dhote received 1,25,665 votes; R. C.
Sharma, 1 , 23,615, 7425 votes were rejected votes.
Paragraph ... many rejected votes
were counted as valid and many valid votes were rejected.
The tendered votes were not counted and 14 votes were
missing
