SEMENYIH: The Semenyih state by-election began at 8am today with the opening of 24 polling centres with 116 streams.
The polls will close at 5.30pm and the results are expected to be announced before 10pm today, Bernama reported.
A total of 53,411 people are eligible to vote today, and the Election Commission (EC) is expecting a voter turnout of about 70 per cent. Early voting was held on Tuesday.
Up to 996 election workers have been deployed at the 24 polling centres.
The vote tallying centre is at Seri Cempaka Hall, Kajang Municipal Council in Saujana Impian, Kajang.
The official campaign period began on Feb 16 and ended at 11.59pm yesterday.
The by-election was called following the death of incumbent Pakatan Harapan (PH) assemblyman Bakhtiar Mohd Nor, from Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu), on Jan 11.
The four candidates vying for the state seat are Muhammad Aiman Zainali of PH, Zakaria Hanafi (Barisan Nasional), Nik Aziz Afiq Abdul (Parti Sosialis Malaysia) and independent candidate Kuan Chee Heng.
This is the sixth by-election after the 14th general election held in May. Three of them were state by-elections: Sungai Kandis (Aug 4) and Balakong and Seri Setia (held simultaneously on Sept 8).
Two others were parliamentary by-elections for Port Dickson (Oct 13) and Cameron Highlands (Jan 26).