Heavy turnout in Bahrain’s runoff elections

Chief of the By-Elections Supervisory Committee in the Capital governorate Magistrate Wael Bu-Allai said that there was larger turnout during the second round of by-elections in the capital governorate in contrast with the first round conducted last week.

Bu-Allai said he was hopeful to finish earlier the sorting the votes in the three constituencies of the capital governorate, pointing out that the result of sorting of votes by sub-committees are usually faster than in the public polling stations.

He added that sorting of votes in the public polling stations will be conducted at three stages including sorting the votes at governorate level then sorting the votes obtained by each and every candidate followed by double checking of the votes and sorting out invalid votes.