\u00a09.50pm: Final official EC tally – Anwar got 31,195 votes, Arif Shah, 15,524, Hanafi, 92. Anwar won with a majority of 15,671.<\/p>\n
Anwar’s wife, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, won the seat with a 13,388 majority at the March 8 general elections. – Malaysiakini<\/a>.<\/p>\n 9.47PM: Anwar received total majority of 15,671 votes to beat BN’s Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim: 31,195 votes –NST<\/a><\/p>\n 9.25pm: Official EC results: With final five ballot boxes to go, Anwar has bagged 29,526 votes, Arif Shah (14,444) and Hanafi (89). Majority so far: 15,082. – Malaysiakini<\/a>.<\/p>\n 9.13PM: Anwar Ibrahim – 27,977 and Arif Shah 13,426 with 14,551 majority – Astro Bernama. – Note that the total for both candidates more than total number of estimated voter turnout!!! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n 9.12pm: Official EC results: With 11 more boxes to go, Anwar has won the by-election with a 14,551 majority. He garnered 27,977 votes while BN’s Arif Shah obtained 13,426 while Akim’s Hanafi Hamat got 85. – Malaysiakini<\/a>.<\/p>\n 9.00PM: Arif Shah got 10,436 votes and Anwar Ibrahim 22k – Reuters.<\/p>\n 8.55PM: Anwar Ibrahim 22k+ votes, Arif Shah 10k, with balance of about 5k votes left – Astro Bernama.<\/p>\n 8.49PM: PKR announces Anwar wins with 17,652 majority – Star Online<\/a><\/p>\n 8.35PM:\u00a0After the counting of ballot papers of 65 polling streams, the EC has announced that PKR’s Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is leading with 18,671 votes. BN’s Datuk Ariff Shah Omar Shah has garnered 8,379 votes while AKIM’s Hanafi Hamat only managed 51. Only results from 45 streams have yet to be counted. NST<\/a><\/p>\n 8.13PM:\u00a0Anwar’s party, the Keadilan, or People’s Justice, said on Tuesday that he is expected to win at least 70 per cent of the vote for the Permatang Pauh constituency in the state of Penang, just hours after polling closed – Al-Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n 8.00PM: Anwar Ibrahim wins with a majority of 16,210 votes. He garnered 26,646 votes while Arif Shah Omar Shah got 10,436. Anwar’s wife, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, won the seat with a 13,388 majority at the March 8 general elections – Malaysiakini<\/a><\/p>\n 6.30PM: A total of 38,144 voters cast their ballots in the by-election, representing 65.25% of the total number of registered voters for the constituency (Unofficial EC count).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a09.50pm: Final official EC tally – Anwar got 31,195 votes, Arif Shah, 15,524, Hanafi, 92. Anwar won with a majority of 15,671. Anwar’s wife, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, won the seat with a 13,388 majority at the March 8 general elections. – Malaysiakini. 9.47PM: Anwar received total majority of 15,671 votes to beat BN’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[196,143,62],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-elections","tag-penang","tag-pkr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe results at the final tally are:<\/p>\n
\nDatuk Arif Shah Omar Shah: 15,524 votes
\nHanafi Hamat: 92 votes
\nMajority: 15,671 votes
\nTurnout: 65.25%<\/p>\n