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Director of Elections Danville Walker.

The police and election-day workers will go to the polls on November 29.

This is six days before the rest of the population votes in the local government election on December 5.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced the local government election on Wednesday, at a campaign rally in west Kingston. Nomination Day is November 19.

Director of Elections Danville Walker said the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) was ready for the polls and plans were in place for nomination day.

He said candidates would be vying for 227 seats in the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation and the parish councils.

480 candidates

An estimated 480 candidates will line up at the starter's blocks to contest the polls.

Candidates are expected to complete the nomination exercise between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

The nomination fee of $3,000 remains unchanged.

Mr. Walker told The Gleaner/Power 106 news yesterday that the EOJ was confident that an additional 2,000 election-day workers, needed for December 5, would be on board for the election.

Both the governing Jamaica Labour Party and Opposition People's National Party will field the maximum number of candidates.