By-elections: Three early voting, four postal ballot boxes reach tally centre

JOHOR BARU: Three early voting ballot boxes and four postal vote ballot boxes for the Pulai parliamentary by-election have arrived at the Dewan Jubli Intan Sultan Ibrahim here.

Early voting ballot boxes reached the tally centre at around 6.15pm while postal vote ballot boxes arrived some 30 minutes later.

The boxes were handed over to Pulai parliamentary returning officer Miswan Yunus.

Meanwhile, the Election Commission said that the number of people who have voted as of 6pm is 46.8% for Pulai parliamentary and 60.2% for Simpang Jeram state seat.

Pulai has a total of 166,653 voters while there are 40,488 voters in Simpang Jeram.