Feb 03, Colombo: Postal voting for the upcoming North Western and Central provincial council election ended this evening calmly, Election Secretariat reported.

Nearly 80% of government workers from the total applied have casted their postal votes during the two days allocated for the process, the Secretariat said.

Casting of the postal votes for ahead of the polls on February 14th commenced yesterday at all the government offices island wide.

The Assistant Retaining Officers of the five districts, Kandy, Matale, Nuwara Eliya, Kurunegala, and Puttalama said that there were not any incidents reported within these two days.

According to the Election Secretariat nearly 85,000 government workers have applied to cast postal votes with the highest number reporting from Kurunegala district.