Shillong, Feb 8: The Election Department today completed scrutiny process successfully in in all 12 districts across 60 Assembly Constituencies of Meghalaya.
Post scrutiny of 379 nominations filed, 375 nominations were found to be valid. Male candidates accounted for 339 and number of female candidates is 36.
Four nominations (3 male and one female) were found invalid — 3 candidates in East Jaintia Hills and one candidate in West Jaintia Hills — as they were deemed as dummy candidates. Three of them are from the NPP and one from the UDP.
