EC: Sandakan’s voter turnout 51pc at 4pm
A voter casts his ballot at the SK Muhibbah polling centre in Sandakan May 11, 2019. ― Bernama pic
Only 51 per cent gace emerged to vote, far below the election regulator’s target of a 70 per cent turnout.The voter demography of Sandakan can be broken down into 51 per cent ethnic Chinese, 45 per cent Muslim Bumiputera and the rest are of other races. The five-way contest involves the daughter of the late Sandakan incumbent Vivian Wong Shir Yee from DAP, Parti Bersatu Sabah candidate Datuk Linda Tsen Thau Lin and three independents ― former Sabah Parti Amanah Negara founder Hamzah Abdullah, businessman Chia Siew Yung, and a former officer at the Sandakan parliamentary constituency service centre, Sulaiman Samat.
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