The election office in Chandpur has drawn up a draft list of 615 polling centres for the five parliamentary seats of the district, as part of its preparation for the 10th general elections, which are scheduled to be held early next year.
Working with a draft voter list, the district election office has increased poll centres and booth numbers as per an order of the election commission.
“The election commission has ordered us to take all necessary preparations for the upcoming elections. We have already finished the draft work for the poll centres,” Ataur Rahman, a district election officer, told the Dhaka Tribune on Thursday.
Election office sources said 615 polling centres, including 95 new ones, with 3,152 probable booths have been primarily fixed for the upcoming polls.
Among the proposed centres, 89 will be in Chandpur-1 (Kochua), 134 in Chandpur-2 (north and south Matlab), 152 in Chandpur-3 (Sadar and Haimchar), 104 in Chandpur-4 (Faridganj) and 136 in Chandpur-5 ( Hajiganj-Shahrasti), the source said.
Some 1,536,049 people are listed in the draft electoral roll, which is 212,429 more voters than in the last polls. Of the total number of voters, 766,154 are male, while 769,895 are female.
