{"id":26511,"date":"2014-09-25T17:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/v7\/?p=26511"},"modified":"2014-09-25T18:50:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T10:50:34","slug":"pengkalan-kubor-election-72-turnout-4pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/pengkalan-kubor-election-72-turnout-4pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Pengkalan Kubor By-election: 72% turnout at 4pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUMPAT: The Pengkalan Kubor by-election recorded a 72% turnout at 4pm Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier. Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof said he was satisfied with the turnout so far with over 54% recorded at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;If this trend continues until the closing time (5pm), the EC expects the total percentage to exceed 70%, as what we&#8217;ve targeted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the EC expected only 10% of voters to vote within each hour but the turnout was 15% per hour and this was a positive sign.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, expected the voter turnout to drop a bit towards evening due to the weather forecast of rain later in Pengkalan Kubor and the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>In the 13th general election, the voter turnout was 79%.<\/p>\n<p>In this by-election, Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate Mat Razi Mat Ail is being challenged by Wan Rosdi Wan Ibrahim from PAS and Independent candidate Izat Bukhary Ismail Bukhary.<\/p>\n<p>The by-election is held following the death of the incumbent assemblyman, Datuk Noor Zahidi Omar from BN, on Aug 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUMPAT: The Pengkalan Kubor by-election recorded a 72% turnout at 4pm Thursday. Earlier. Election Commission (EC) chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof said he was satisfied with the turnout so far with over 54% recorded at 2pm. &#8220;If this trend continues until the closing time (5pm), the EC expects the total percentage to exceed 70%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":26461,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":821,"height":556,"file":"2014\/09\/Screenshot-272.png","filesize":897985,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":26458,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Screenshot-272.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}