Gearing up for elections: Sindh ECP proposes over 15,000 polling stations

The final number would depend on the number of voters registered in each area.


Our Correspondent April 07, 2013
An election commission worker packs documents for polling stations in their bags for general election in Lahore on March 30, 2013. PHOTO: AFP/ FILE

KARACHI:


According to a proposal sent by the provincial election commission, Sindh will have around 15,506 polling stations for the upcoming elections.


The proposal has been forwarded to the returning officers so that they can finalise the list of polling stations in their respective districts. The figures are, however, tentative as the returning officers are currently busy in the scrutiny of papers, said the provincial election commission director, Najeeb Ahmed.



The data released by the election commission envisages 120 to 150 polling stations for each provincial assembly constituency and 250 to 300 for a National Assembly seat. The final number would depend on the number of voters registered in each area. The number of booths in each polling station would be between two and four. In total 48,666 booths will be set up. The number of voters at each polling station will range between 1,200 and 2,000.

As for Karachi, the city will have 4,501 polling stations of which 1,110 will be in district East, 890 in district West, 860 in district South, 513 in district Malir and 1,127 in district Central.

The following districts will have the number of polling stations as proposed by the election commission:

Hyderabad                                 730

Sukkur                                       463

Larkana                                     499

Jamshoro                                  363

Thatta                                       642

Badin                                        641

Dadu                                         698

Matiari                                      261

Tando Allahyar                        329

Tando Muhammad Khan       242

Benazirabad                            649

Sanghar                                   782

Ghotki                                     535

Shikarpur                                408

Kashmore                               271

Jacobabad                              560

Kamber Shahdadkot              472

Naushero Feroz                     502

Khairpur                                 734

Tharparkar                             495

Umerkot                                 286

Published in The Express Tribune, April 7th, 2013. 

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