KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 (Bernama) -- Nominations for the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election in Perak and the state seats of Bukit Selambau in Perak and Batang Ai in Sarawak opened at 9am today.
The nomination centre for Bukit Gantang is at the Taiping Municipal Council hall in while that for Bukit Selambau is at Sekolah Menengah Teknik Sungai Petani and Batang Ai, at the Lubok Antu sports complex.
Nominations will close at 10am, to be followed by an hour for objections.
Polling for all three seats has been fixed for April 7, in the event of contests.
The returning officers will announce the names of the candidates at noon.
The Bukit Selambau seat fell vacant after incumbent V.Arumugam of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) resigned on Feb 8 while the Bukit Gantang and Batang Ai by-elections are being held following the deaths of Roslan Shaharum of PAS on Feb 9 and Datuk Dublin Unting Inkot of Barisan Nasional on Feb 24.
Bukit Gantang has 55,562 registered voters, including 136 voters, of whom 63.5 per cent are Malays, Chinese (27.1 per cent), Indians (9.1 per cent) and others.
Bukit Selambau has 35,140 voters (15 postal voters) with Malays making up 50.2 per cent, Indians (29.5 per cent), Chinese (19.3 per cent) and others (1 per cent).
In Batang Ai, there are 8,006 registered voters (43 postal voters)with the Ibans making up 95 per cent and the rest being Malays, Chinese and others.
The weather was fine at all the three nomination centres and the candidates' supporters arrived as early as 6.30am.
In Taiping, police closed up five roads leading to Taiping town -- Jalan Sultan Mansur, Jalan Kota, Jalan Taming Sari, Jalan Temenggong and Jalan Berek -- at 6am.
Meanwhile, in Lubok Antu, Sarawak, the 38km road leading to Lubok Antu from the junction with the Sri Aman-Miri trunk road was jammed since early morning as many vehicles carrying party supporters, election workers and dignitaries, headed there.
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