A total of 48.13%, or 322,072 out of 669,211 ordinary voters, had cast their ballots to elect their representatives in the 16th Melaka state election as of 1pm on Saturday.
The Election Commission (EC), in a Facebook post, said the three state constituencies that recorded the highest voter turnout were Sungai Udang (N.11) at 58.48%, followed by Serkam (N.26) (52.04%) and Tanjung Bidara (N.02) (51.80%).
The three constituencies with the lowest voter turnout were Kesidang (N.19) (41.36%), Kota Laksamana (N.20) (41.32%) and Bandar Hilir (N.22) (39.22%).
A total of 240 ordinary polling centres involving 1,213 streams opened simultaneously at 8am on Saturday and will remain open until 6pm to enable voters to elect a new state government for the coming term.
There are 675,166 ordinary voters in this state election, with 5,955 of them voting by post.
