Eight Assembly constituencies will be going to polls from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm while in insurgency-hit areas including 10 assembly constituencies, the polling time will be from 7.00 am to 3.00 pm. During the first phase of polling scheduled on November 12 for a total of 18 assembly constituencies of Bastar revenue division and Rajnandgaon district.
As per the timing of polling released by Chhattisgarh Chief Electoral Officer, Subrat Sahoo ,the polling time for Khairagarh, Dongargarh (SC), Rajnandgaon, Dongargaon, Khujji, Bastar (ST), Jagdalpur and Chitrakot (ST) State Assembly constituencies is from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm.
The timing for the State Assembly constituencies of Mohala-Manpur (ST), Antagarh (ST), Bhanupratappur (ST), Kanker (ST), Keshkal (ST), Kondagaon (ST), Narayanpur (ST), Dantewada (ST), Bijapur (ST) and Konta (ST) will be from 7.00 am to 3.00 pm.
Meanwhile, the poll campaigning for the first phase of polling scheduled on November 12 has ended at 5.00 pm on Saturday in all the 18 State Assembly constituencies.
Now the candidates can only carry out the door to door public contact programme in their respective State Assembly constituencies and cannot hold any public meetings.
They will not be allowed to carry out any publicity campaign also.