The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has identified the common poster areas in all 61 barangays in the highly urbanized Bacolod City ahead of the May 12 midterm elections.

Data from the Comelec-Negros Island Region on Thursday, January 16, showed at least 111 areas across Bacolod have been listed where legal campaign materials can be posted, displayed or exhibited during the campaign period.

Identified areas include places beside barangay halls and tanod outposts, plazas, basketball and covered courts, gymnasiums, parks, vacant lots, perimeter fences, entrance of residential subdivisions, in front of churches and police stations and street corners.

Campaign posters can be displayed from March 28 to May 10 by candidates running for positions at the congressional, provincial, city, and municipal level.

Candidates for senator and party-list groups can put up campaign posters from February 11 to May 10.

Meanwhile, the Comelec is also holding a series of roadshows until January 31 to introduce the automated counting machine to voters in Negros Occidental.

Roadshows are being held separately in barangay halls, covered courts, school campuses, and other venues listed by the Comelec in cities and municipalities across the province.

In Bacolod, roadshows will be conducted in colleges and universities until January 24. (PNA)