KUALA SELANGOR, April 28 (Bernama) -- About 14 per cent of the 12,272 voters in the Ijok state by-election in Selangor have cast their ballots as at 10am, two hours after polling centres opened Saturday.
Election Commission secretary Datuk Kamaruzaman Mohd Noor said that voting was smooth amid overcast skies, with a larger turnout expected in the afternoon.
The nine polling centres are open until 5pm and the tallying of votes will be carried out at the Batang Berjuntai community hall following vote counting at the respective polling centres.
The result is expected at around 8pm.
It is a straight fight between Barisan Nasional's K. Parthiban, 38, and Parti Keadilan Rakyat's Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, 61.
The by-election is being held following the death of BN assemblyman Datuk K. Sivalingam, 59, of heart failure on April 4.
In the 2004 general election, Sivalingam beat PKR's Abdol Rahman Moharam and independent candidate Mohamed Shariff Nagoorkani by a 1,649-vote majority.
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