Namgay sweeps 5 constituencies

Namgay sweeps 5 constituencies

People have put a lot of responsibilities on my shoulder

Thromde election 22 January, 2011 - Gelephu Thromde elected Namgay as its Thrompon yesterday giving the former Chukha dzongda a total of 307 votes and two postal ballots in an election that many predicted would go the other way.

His opponent, Churamani Tiwari, 30, secured 223 votes.Namgay won from all the five constituencies with a margin of five to 46 votes except for Jampeling constituency, where Churamanis got 69 votes over his 28. In Samdrupling constituency from where he contested Namgay got 78 votes to Churamanis 32, Trashiling it was 35 to 5, 81 to 68 in Namkhaling, 48 to 17 in Rabdeyling and 37 to 32 in Sonamgatshel.Lok Bahadur Chetri won the tshogpa seat from Jampeling constituency. His opponents, Kharka Bahadur Suberi and Devi Maya Bandari, the only female candidate in the Gelephu thromdey election, secured 27 votes each.Of the 110 votes cast in Samdrupling constituency Karchung secured 65 to be elected as Tshogpa while his opponent Sangay Wangdi secured 45.Chencho Gyeltshen from Trashiling constituency secured 35 yes votes and five no votes to be elected as the tshogpa. Sithar Dorji is the tshogpa for Namkhaling constituency with 122 yes votes and two postal ballots and 27 no votes.Krishna Prasad Sharma from Sonamgatshel constituency got 55 yes votes and 14 no votes to be elected as tshogpa. Of the total 954 eligible voters from the six constituencies of Gelephu thromdey, 530 voted yesterday.Namkhaling constituency had the highest number of eligible voters. Of the 265 eligible voters, 149 voted. In Tashiling constituency 40 of the 64 eligible voters turned up to vote. In Sonamgatshel constituency, 69 people of the 109 eligible voters cast their ballot. In Jampeling constituency 97 people voted from the 208 eligible voters. Samdrupling constituency saw 110 people of 186 eligible voters vote. In Rabdeyli! ng cons tituency, 65 people of the 122 eligible voted.By Tashi Dema



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