Merlimau vote on March 6, nomination day on Feb 26

January 28, 2011
LABIS, Jan 28 The Election Commission (EC) decided tonight to hold the Merlimau by-election on March 6.Nomination day for the Malacca state seat is February 26. It is the 15th by-election since Election 2008.EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Yusof also said the electoral roll last updated on January 20 would be used in the by-election.The electoral roll has 10,679 registered voters, with 10,643 ordinary voters and 36 postal voters, said Abdul Aziz in a statement issued after the ECs special meeting in Batu Pahat near here.Jasin District Officer Roslan Eusoff was named the by-elections returning officer.The by-election, Abdul Aziz said, would cost the commission RM830,000 and involve 248 election workers.There are seven polling districts with 21 voting streams in Merlimau.The seat fell vacant after the incumbent, Barisan Nasionals (BN) Datuk Mohamad Hidhir Abu Hasan, 54, died on January 20.In the 1999, BN won with a majority of 2,252 votes, 2004 (5,087 votes) and 2008 with 2,154 votes.Mohamad Hidhir, who was also a state executive councillor, defeated PASs Jasme Tompang in the March 2008 general election.Merlimau is located within the Jasin parliamentary constituency, a stronghold of BN, where it won all the five state seats in Election 2008.

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