KUALA KRAI, July 14 (Bernama) -- Polling for the Manik Urai state by-election is now underway in nine polling centres.
The centres, which comprise 27 polling streams, were opened from 8am on Tuesday.
A majority of the 12,293 voters, except for the 25 postal voters who had already cast their votes, are expected to come out early to elect their new representative, replacing Ismail Yaacob of PAS who died of a heart attack on May 22.
The Election Commission expects the voter turnout to be around 85 per cent.
Both candidates, Tuan Aziz Tuan Mat, 39, of Barisan Nasional and Mohd Fauzi Abdullah, 50, of PAS, are not voters in the area.
Polling will be closed at 5pm, afterwhich the counting of votes will begin at the centres.
The votes will then be tallied at the Dewan Petra, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sultan Yahya Petra 1, here.
The result is expected to be known as early as 8pm tonight.
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