PETALING JAYA: The turnout for early voters in the six states was more than 90%, says the Election Commission (EC).
Its chairman Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Salleh said 72,554 early voters from the armed forces, police, General Operations Force and their spouses cast their ballots in all six states yesterday.
For Kuala Terengganu’s by-election, 1,286 early voters comprising police and armed forces personnel and their spouses cast their votes. They made up 95.47% of the registered early voters in the parliamentary constituency.
The EC said the percentage of early voters who cast their ballots in Kedah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Penang, Selangor and Negri Sembilan was between 93.9% and 96.02%. Kedah registered the highest early voter turnout at 96.02%, followed by Terengganu at 95.91%, Selangor (95.87%), Penang (95.01%), Negri Sembilan (94.05%) and Kelantan (93.90%).
For the parliamentary by-election in Kuala Terengganu, the early voter turnout was at 95.47%.
“We hope that the voter turnout on Saturday will exceed 86% of the voter turnout recorded during the 15th General Election (last year),” he told reporters after inspecting the early voting process at Selangor police contingent headquarters here.
All 260 early polling centres comprising 377 voting channels for the state polls in six states closed at 5pm yesterday.
