Johor polls close

JOHOR POLLS | Voting has ended for the Johor state election.

The final turnout that the Election Commission (EC) published at 4pm was 50 percent.

Malaysiakini will be bringing you the live results.

Bernama reported that voters had begun lining up at polling centres as early as 7am this morning, even though voting officially opens at 8am.

Among the early birds were two former Johor menteris besar Mohamed Khaled Nordin and Sahruddin Jamal.

Khaled, who did not contest in the election this time, cast his vote at SK Taman Rinting 1, Pasir Gudang for the Permas seat, while Sahruddin, who is the Perikatan Nasional (PN) candidate for Bukit Kepong, voted at SJK Cina Lenga, Pagoh in Muar.

A total of 1,021 polling stations were opened for the voting process today to allow 2,539,606 ordinary voters, out of 2,597,742 registered voters, to exercise their rights.

There are 239 candidates from 15 political parties contesting for 56 state seats in this state election.

Most polling centres will close at 6pm today while 41 centres will close at 4pm, 15 polling stations at 2pm, two at 1pm and one polling centre with only a couple of channels will close at 11am.

Meanwhile, PN chairperson Muhyiddin Yassin and his wife Noorainee Abdul Rahman arrived at the polling centre at SMK Sri Muar at 9.05am to cast their votes for the Maharani state seat.

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