Highlands dominates seats yet to be declared

THE Highlands region still has 31 seats to be declared, out of the 55 remaining in provinces around the country.
Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato has urged his officials to speed up the counting process to complete everything by Friday — the new date for the return of writs to Government House.
He gave the green light to election managers and returning officers to hire more counting officials and to work “around the clock”.
He obtained the approval from Governor-General Sir Bob Dadae to extend the date for the return of writs from yesterday to Friday.  Of the 31 seats remaining in the Highlands, eight are in Eastern Highlands, five in Chimbu, five in Enga, four in Jiwaka, five in Southern Highlands and four in Western Highlands.
In Mamose, seven seats are yet to be  declared in Madang.
In East Sepik, West Sepik and Morobe, only their respective governor’s seats remain.
The National Capital District, Gulf, Northern and Western have three seats left each.
Central has two seats remaining, including the governor’s seat.