West New Britain Provincial Returning Officer Emily Kelton has publicly announced that counting will begin tomorrow (Wednesday 13th July).
Kelton said Nakanai electorate will be first since completing polling in its four local level governments.
WNB Provincial Returning Officer, Emily Kelton.
“I’ve allowed for Wednesday to give enough time to the Presiding Officers to complete their journals and other reports before counting commences,” said Kelton.
PRO Kelton said preparation at the counting venue is progressing. She said counting for Nakanai will begin at 8am right to the night.
“Following the completion of counting for Nakanai Open Seat, we will then move to Talasea then Kandrian Gloucester and the Regional Seat will be last,” said PRO Kelton.
For Talasea, Kelton said counting will begin with Kimbe Urban and Talasea Rural.
“We will begin with Kimbe Urban and Talasea Rural while awaiting arrival of ballot boxes from Bali Vitu LLG, ” said Kelton.
Bali Vitu should complete polling by Wednesday then the ballot boxes will be airlifted to Kimbe, Kelton said.
The WNB PRO said Kandrian Gloucester is expected to complete polling today(Tuesday 12th July) then ballot boxes will be airlifted to Kimbe.
“We expect Gasmata, Kandrian inland and coastal to complete by Tuesday. Kalia Kove completed polling yesterday and polling officials and materials will travel by boat to Kimbe,” Kelton said.
“Once all ballot boxes for Kandrian Gloucester are here and checked, counting will start”, added Kelton.
The WNB PRO also highlighted that since counting for the three open seats are done at different times, the Regional Seat will be last to do it’s elimination.
“We will start by counting in the LLG’s, Districts then Provincial. This is the overall counting plan for West New Britain,” said Kelton.
All counting will be done at the White House tent near the Sasindran Muthuvel Stadium in Kimbe Town.
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