SHAH ALAM (Bernama): A total of 19 polling stations, involving 109 streams, in the Sungai Kandis state constituency, opened at 8am Saturday (Aug 4) to enable 51,217 voters to exercise their right.
The polling centres, using 18 schools and a community hall, will close at 5.30pm.
There is no early voting in the Sungai Kandis by-election.
The Election Commission (EC) is targetting 80 percent voter turnout in the by-election and the results are expected to be announced by about 10pm.
The tallying of votes will be done at Dewan Besar Tanjung of the Shah Alam City Council in Section 9 here, as soon as the balloting process ends at 5.30pm.
The Sungai Kandis by-election will see a three-cornered fight involving PKR candidate Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughni, Datuk Lokman Noor Adam of Barisan Nasional and independent candidate K. Murthy.
The by-election is being held following the death of incumbent Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei of PKR, due to cancer on July 2.
Mat Shuhaimi retained the seat for the third consecutive term in the last general election with a majority of 12,480 votes in a four-cornered fighter against Barisan, PAS and Parti Rakyat Malaysia (PRM). - Bernama
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