MELAKA: The Election Commission (EC) is about 25 percentage points short of achieving its 70 per cent voter turnout target for the Melaka election.
The commission reported that 45.08 per cent of ordinary voters had cast their ballots as of 1pm.
According to the EC’s real-time Voter Turnout Monitoring (VTO) dashboard, 301,688 voters had voted so far.
The dashboard also showed that Serkam recorded the highest turnout among the 28 state constituencies, at 51.04 per cent.
Voters have until 6pm to cast their ballots.