KUALA LUMPUR – A total of 76 and 243 early voters comprising police personnel will cast their ballots respectively tomorrow for the Padang Serai parliamentary seat in Kedah and the Tioman state seat in Pahang.
Election Commission (EC) secretary Datuk Ikmalrudin Ishak, in a statement today, said that the early voting process for the Padang Serai parliamentary seat at the Kulim district police headquarters multipurpose hall would run from 8am to 2pm.
The early voting process for the Tioman state seat, meanwhile, would take place at the Rompin district police headquarters’ leisure room (from 8am to 5pm) and at the Tekek police station’s information room (from 8am to 12pm).
“The EC advises (early) voters who are Covid-19-positive to contact the district health officer to facilitate their early voting process.
“The early voting process will also be observed by candidates’ agents,” he said adding that the process at selected voting centres would also be streamed live via EC’s Facebook page.
Ikmalrudin said the ballot boxes would be kept in police station lockups and counting would be conducted on December 7 starting at 4pm at the designated counting stations.
The EC also advised the early voters to check their voting information at https://mysprsemak.spr.gov.my or by contacting the EC Hotline at 03-8892-7018 or 03-8888-0040 or via the MySPR Semak application.
The contest for the Padang Serai parliamentary seat will see a six-cornered fight among Pakatan Harapan candidate Mohamad Sofee Razak, Datuk C. Sivaraajh (Barisan Nasional, BN), Datuk Azman Nasrudin (Perikatan Nasional, PN) and Hamzah Abd Rahman (Pejuang).
The other two contenders are Mohd Bakhri Hashim, representing Warisan, and independent candidate Sreanandha Rao.
However, Warisan had announced that it would not take part in the election, but its logo would still appear on the ballot paper, as it had already been registered as one of the competing parties.
Meanwhile, the Tioman state seat will witness a five-cornered fight between PN candidate Nor Idayu Hashim, Datuk Seri Mohd Johari Hussain (BN), Osman A. Bakar (Pejuang), Sulaiman Bakar (Independent) and Mohd Fadzli Mohd Ramly (PH).
Fadzli, however, is making way to increase the BN candidate’s chances of winning, but his name will still appear on the ballot papers.
The EC has set December 7 as the polling day. The candidates’ nomination was held on November 24. – Bernama, December 2, 2022
