MELAKA: A total of 70.59 per cent of ordinary voters cast their ballots in the Melaka election.
According to the Election Commission’s (EC) real-time Voter Turnout Monitoring (VTO) dashboard, 472,397 voters had cast their ballots by the time polling ended at about 6pm today.
Of the 28 state constituencies, Bandar Hilir recorded the lowest voter turnout at 57.7 per cent.
The EC had set a voter turnout target of 70 per cent for the 16th Melaka election. However, the commission has yet to issue an official statement on the overall voter turnout for the polls.
In the 2021 state election, voter turnout stood at 65.85 per cent.