ECP Increases Polling Time By One Hour

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ECP increases polling time by one hour

Polling to be held from 8am till 6pm on election day – July 25.

Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 29th June, 2018) The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to increase the time of polling by one hour.

According to the notification issued by ECP, polling will be held from 8am till 6pm on Election Day – July 25.

The process of polling will continue uninterrupted for 10 hours. The notification said that the polling time has been increased to ensure maximum public participation in the election process.

The ECP on Thursday issued final polling scheme for national and provincial assemblies' Constituencies for the conduct of general elections 2018 in all four provinces and Federal capital.

According to ECP, it has placed all the details regarding final polling scheme on its official web portal for the voter's facilitation by ensuring the compliance with basic fundamental right under Constitution of Pakistan related to right to information.

The polling scheme consisted of name of constituency, name of polling station, name of electoral area, census block code, serial number of voters on the electoral roll in case electoral area is bifurcated, number of voters assigned to a polling station including male, female and total number of polling booths allotted to a constituency.

As many as 85,307 polling stations have been finalized across the country with 47,813 in Punjab, 17,747 in Sindh, 12,634 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 4,420 in Balochistan, 797 in federal capital and 1,896 in FATA.

Mahnoor Sheikh

The writer is News Editor, Pakistan Point. She has graduated in Mass Communication and has worked in various media houses