Tapuk Taku of National People’s Party (NPP) defeated his rival candidate in the Seppa East Assembly constituency of Arunachal Pradesh with a narrow margin of 29 votes.
He contested and won against Ealing Tallang of BJP.
The final count from the Postal Votes tilted the scales his favour.
Postal Voting
Postal voting is a type of voting in elections whereby Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot Papers (ETPB) are distributed to electors and returned by post.
Postal voting refers only to the “means” by which the ballots are submitted, not to the “method” by which the votes are counted.
According to the Election Commission (EC) of India Postal Voting facility is available to a service voter — that is a voter having a service qualification.