PKR POLLS | Mohamed Azmin Ali took the lead in the contest for PKR deputy president’s post after garnering 4,503 votes in Johor yesterday, while his sole contender Mohd Rafizi Ramli secured 3,976 votes.

Azmin is the incumbent of the post, while Mohd Rafizi is vice-president.

PKR Central Election Committee (JPP) deputy chairperson Adzman Hedra said the JPP was satisfied as there was no incident nor glitch affecting the election process, which involved 24 divisions of the party in the state.

However, Bernama reported Adzman as saying, only a total of 10,725 out of 37,934 eligible members in the state cast their votes yesterday.

The party voter turnout was only 39.29 percent in Segamat, 39.77 percent in Pagoh, 37.10 percent in Kulai, 35.92 percent in Sekijang, 34.07 percent in Simpang Renggam, 30.81 percent in Bakri and 30.61 percent in Parit Sulong, while in other divisions, only between 11.72 percent and 28.77 percent of the members voted.

The polls saw 53 candidates contesting the posts of division chief, while 163 others contesting for the the post of deputy chiefs, vice-chiefs and committee members.

According to the Johor PKR figures, there were voters who claimed to be PKR members but were not in the membership database. They were allowed to vote first and subjected to verification later.

This had happened last weekend in Penang as well, although the figure was believed to be smaller.

As of last night, Malaysiakini has not received reports of problems seen during the Kedah PKR elections last weekend.

All voting results in the elections for Kedah were eventually invalidated and new dates have yet to be set.

The next round of voting will take place in Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, Kuala Lumpur and Labuan this coming weekend.