Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 467 · Decided 9 December 1998
Ganesh Nagarao Raut Dudhagaonkar v. Rajani Shankarrao Satav and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 467 · [1998] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 463
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 12571/1996
- Decided
- 9 December 1998
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, M. SRINIVASAN, M.B. SHAH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
B Election-Counting-Exhausted ballot paper-Treatment of-Ballot papers marked in favour of eliminated candidates and not containing any preference in favour of any of the continuing candidates-Held, Such ballot papers were rightly declared as exhausted and not counted in favour of any C of 71(/), 71(8) and 74. There were in all 424 Councillors of the Municipal Council and Zilla Parishad who comprised the constituency for election. As per the Conduct of the Election Rules, 1961, the quota for election was fixed by dividing total D number of votes by two adding one to it. The
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