All the polling stations will be open until 6 pm, except for Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina Bukit Fraser. This particular station is closed at 2 pm and It’s specifically for only 40 voters. A total of 39,269 voters are all set to cast their ballots today.
The vote tallying will be done at the Dewan Serbaguna dan Kompleks Sukan Daerah Hulu Selangor and the official results are expected to be announced at 10 pm.
The Voting Process
The whole process is managed by the 760 Election Commission (EC) workers. To ensure security,1,133 police personnel will be deployed for polling day duty.
Last Tuesday, a total of 97 percent, which is 769 police and military personnel and their spouses, cast their ballots in early voting.
The early voting took place at two polling centres – Signals Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division, Camp Erskine and Dewan Serbaguna Maktab Polis Diraja Malaysia. These centres had three polling streams to help the voting process.
By-Election is a Four-Cornered Fight
The by-election is a four-cornered fight involving with Pang Sock Tao (Pakatan Harapan), Khairul Azhari Saut representing Perikatan Nasional, Hafizah Zainuddin representing Parti Rakyat Malaysia and Nyau Ke Xin running as an independent candidate.
Since all the candidates will not be voting as they are not registered voters in the constituency. They won’t be able to vote in the by-election.
In the state election last year in August, Lee defeated candidates from Perikatan Nasional, Parti Rakyat Malaysia and the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance; they won with a majority of 4,119 votes to retain the seat for the third consecutive term.
The seat became empty because the previous representative, Lee Kee Hiong of DAP, unfortunately, passed away on March 21 due to cancer.
