Melaka polls: Voter turnout reaches 37.45pc by noon

MELAKA: A total of 37.45 per cent of ordinary voters in the Melaka election had cast their ballots as of noon today.

According to the Election Commission's (EC) real-time Voter Turnout Monitoring (VTO) dashboard, 250,778 voters had voted by then.

The dashboard also showed that most of the 28 state constituencies had recorded voter turnout of more than 32 per cent, with Serkam registering the highest at 43.02 per cent.

EC chairman Datuk Seri Ramlan Harun had said the commission expected the first results of the election to be announced by 9.30pm, with the overall results likely to be finalised before midnight.