Melaka Election: EC Deploys 11,103 Staff as 240 Polling Centres Open Today

MELAKA, November 14, 2026 – A total of 11,103 election officials have been assigned to run polling across Melaka today, as 240 polling centres with 1,213 streams open for 675,166 ordinary voters in the 16th Melaka state election, the Election Commission (EC) said in a media statement.

The statement, Media Statement No. 61/2026, was issued on Friday, November 13, 2026, and signed by EC secretary Datuk Khairul Shahril Idrus. It said the commission had completed checks on voting equipment, including ballot boxes, election ink, ballot papers and voting booths, and had distributed the equipment to presiding officers, known as Ketua Tempat Mengundi, at each stream.

Voting is taking place from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm. The EC advised voters not to leave it until the last minute and encouraged them to follow the Recommended Voting Time shown in the MySPR Semak application. The statement said voters may still go to the polls according to their own timing, from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm.

Voters were reminded to bring their identity cards and their voting details and to show them to the First Polling Clerk (KP1) at their stream. They were also told to check their polling centre, stream and sequence number in advance through the MySPR Semak portal at https://mysprsemak.spr.gov.my, the MySPR Semak application, or the EC hotline at 03-8892 7218. The commission warned voters not to hand their identity cards to anyone other than election officials.

The EC also reminded employers to allow a reasonable period of time for registered employees to go out and vote, as provided under the Election Offences Act 1954.

The official campaign period ended at 11.59 pm on Friday, November 13, 2026. The EC confirmed this in a post on its official X account at that time, stating that the campaign period for the 16th Melaka state election “has ended”. After the deadline, all parties were required to stop campaigning, including soliciting votes outside polling centres and activity on social media platforms such as Facebook, X, Instagram, TikTok and Threads. The statement also said contesting parties and candidates are prohibited from opening, setting up or maintaining booths on polling day, which is an offence under the Election Offences Act 1954.

Mobile phones may not be used inside voting streams. The EC said notices will be displayed, and voters who bring a phone must leave it in a designated area after receiving their ballot paper and collect it after they have voted. Voters, candidates and workers are also barred from entering polling centres in shirts, caps or face masks, or with materials that display the name, logo, symbol or photograph of a party or candidate, or campaign slogans. Anyone who fails to comply may be refused entry by election officials, the statement said. Voters were also reminded to keep their ballots secret, and to follow the posters titled Tatacara 10 Langkah Pengundian, which the statement said explain the full voting process.

The EC said it is continuing a comprehensive pilot of the Optical Character Recognition – Voter’s Attendance (OCR-VA) system across all 28 state constituencies, 240 polling centres and 1,213 streams. The system is intended to speed up verification and to record voter attendance digitally by imaging identity documents, without changing the existing voting process. Members of the public can follow real-time voter turnout, or VTO, throughout the day at https://dashboard.spr.gov.my.

Official results for all 28 seats will be announced after the official vote-tallying process for every constituency has been completed, the statement said. The EC also called on all parties to obey election laws and not to threaten public order, warning that any breach may be acted upon. Bernama reported the same statement on Friday evening.

Credit : SPR

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