Kathmandu, March 12 -- The Election Commission has revised the voter turnout in the March 5 parliamentary elections to around 60 percent as it completes the count under both the first-past-the-post and proportional representation categories. Earlier, it had put the turnout at 58.07 percent.

Updating its report on Wednesday, the constitutional election management body said that as many as 11,312,445 voters, or 59.84 percent, exercised their franchise.

The commission's preliminary report said that of the 18,903,689 eligible voters, only 10,977,711 had actually voted. As per the latest report, the number of valid votes stands at 10,849,082, which is 94.9 percent of the total cast. This means the share of invalid votes so far is 5.1 percent...