The Independent Election Commission (IEC) has announced that the staff of the commission have counted more than 2.196 million votes in 3736 polling stations across the country.

The IEC officials told reporters late on Sunday that 2,196,436 voters cast ballots in 3,736 polling stations out of 5373 which were active during Saturday’s presidential elections.

The officials further added that the election commission expects to receive data regarding 786 polling stations in the near future.

Furthermore, the officials said the commission has no information regarding the remaining 234 polling stations.

The officials reaffirmed the commission’s commitment regarding transparency in elections and assured that the results would be announced as per the elections schedule.