{"id":6096,"date":"2020-09-26T15:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2020-09-26T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T07:23:36","slug":"sabah-election-41-percent-voter-turnout-as-at-noon-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=6096","title":{"rendered":"Sabah Election: 41 percent voter turnout as at noon &#8211; EC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KOTA KINABALU, Sept 26&nbsp;&#8212; Forty-one per cent voter turnout was reported for the Sabah state election as at noon today, compared to 32 per cent reported at 11am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Election Commission chairman\u00a0Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh\u00a0said\u00a0the commission expects a voter turnout of between 70 and 75 percent by the time all polling stations close at 5 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"voters\" class=\"wp-image-6085\" width=\"461\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-184x100.jpg 184w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-350x191.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-800x436.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7.jpg 1069w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 2,540 polling streams have been made available at the 741 polling stations which opened at 7.30 am in the 73 constituencies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some 17,257 election workers are conducting the election to enable 1,088,711 of the&nbsp;1,103,646 voters to exercise their right. A total of 14,935 people had voted by post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=1883635\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOTA KINABALU, Sept 26&nbsp;&#8212; Forty-one per cent voter turnout was reported for the Sabah state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7.jpg",1069,582,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-300x163.jpg",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-768x418.jpg",640,348,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7-1024x558.jpg",640,349,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7.jpg",1069,582,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7.jpg",1069,582,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7.jpg",1069,582,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7.jpg",1024,558,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/64e0c9698ca27d0ea9b43d249a66be065f5f4886643f7.jpg",720,392,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=20\" rel=\"category\">Local<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}