Election Commission removes more than 200,000 names from voter list

The Election Commission has removed about 203,600 names while updating the voter list.

According to the commission, about 45,000 of the removed names belonged to voters who had died. The remaining roughly 158,000 names were removed due to duplicate registration, record deletion, and renunciation of citizenship.

Jhapa, Morang, Saptari, and Kailali saw comparatively larger numbers of names removed.

In Morang, about 600 names were removed due to death and about 9,500 for other reasons, totaling about 10,100 names.

In Jhapa, about 800 names were removed due to death and about 6,200 for other reasons, totaling about 7,000 names.

A significant number of names were also removed in Sunsari.