Melaka polls: Voter turnout reaches 59.47pc as of 3pm

MELAKA: Almost 60 per cent of eligible ordinary voters in the Melaka election had cast their ballots as of 3pm today.

According to the Election Commission’s (EC) real-time Voter Turnout Monitoring (VTO) dashboard, 398,085 voters, or 59.47 per cent, had voted by then.

The dashboard also showed that 17 of the 28 state constituencies had recorded voter turnout of more than 60 per cent, with Serkam registering the highest at 68.61 per cent.

The EC is targeting a voter turnout of between 70 and 75 per cent in the state election.