Around 90% of people who applied for tickets for the London 2012 Paralympics are set to be told they have been successful, organisers have announced.
Applications were received from 116,000 people for more than 1.1million tickets. The ballots for oversubscribed sessions have now been completed and nine out of every 10 applicants are likely to receive tickets. Payments will be taken from bank accounts between October 18 and 31.
London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton said: "We were thrilled by the response to Paralympic Games tickets and since the application process closed our teams have been working hard to run the required ballots, ready to begin the process of taking payments and allocating tickets.
"We are on track to complete payments by the end of the month ready to inform people what tickets they have by November 18."
Ballots took place across 117 price categories in 80 sessions and organisers anticipate that more than 100,000 people will be allocated around 800,000 tickets.
Including overseas sales and sponsors' tickets, more than 1million tickets have now been sold.
That number compares favourably with Wimbledon tennis, where 494,000 tickets were sold, and 398,000 for the England v India cricket Test series.
Remaining Paralympic Games tickets will go back on sale on a first come, first served basis later this year.
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