All arrangements are in place for the conduct of polls for the Western and Southern Provincial Councils. Additional Elections Commissioner R.M.A.L. Ratnayake has called on all voters to visit the polling booths as early as possible and cast their ballots.
The total number of registered voters in the Western and Southern Provinces is five million 898 thousand 427. Polling will commence at 7.00 am tomorrow. Polling will be held for the election of 155 members for the two Provincial Councils at 4253 polling booths.
The number of candidates contesting from political parties and independent groups from the six Districts in the two Provinces is 3794. A group comprising 70 thousand officials are deployed for elections duties.
Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said that the counting of votes will begin at 608 Centres after voting draws to an end at 4.00 pm tomorrow. There will be 420 counting centres for the Western Province while the number of such Centres for the Southern Province is 188.
40 members each will be elected from the Colombo and Gampaha Districts. 22 members are slated to be elected from the Kalutara District. The total number that will be elected for the Western Provincial Council along with the two bonus seats is 104. The Elections Secretariat announced that 55 members are scheduled to be elected for the Southern Provincial Council.
The number of registered voters for the Colombo District is one million 552 thousand 733. 40 members will be elected from the Colombo District. The number of registered voters in the Gampaha Disgtrict is one million 590 thousand 076. 40 members will be elected from this District. There are 881 thousand 814 registered voters who will go to the polls from the Kalutara District to elect 22 members.
809 thousand 880 voters will cast their ballots from the Galle District for the election of 22 members for the Southern Provincial Council. The number of registered voters in the Matara District is 608 thousand 524. 17 members will be elected from Matara.
The Hambantota District has a total of 455 thousand 398 registered voters. The number of members to be elected from this District is 14.
Additional Elections Commissioner R.M.A.L. Ratnayake has called on all voters to cast their ballots as early as possible tomorrow.
Mr. Ratnayake said that heads of polling booths were deployed to the centres by this afternoon. The deployment of these officers was completed sans any obstacles. It is reported that they had already reached their respective polling centres and are ready to engage in their duties tomorrow. He requested all voters to cast their ballots as early as possible and engage in their normal day to day activities without loitering near the polling centres.
In the meantime, the Elections Department announced the ballot boxes concerned have already been directed to all polling booths.
Action was initiated to direct the ballot boxes from this morning to the polling centres under special security. There are 2689 polling centres in the Western Province. 1062 centres are established in the Colombo District. The number of polling booths in the Gampaha District is 1014 while the polling centres in the Kalutara District is 613. The total number of polling centres set up in the Southern Province is 1546. 703 have been set up in the Galle District while there are 450 in the Matara District. The Hambantota District has 411 polling centres.
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