{"id":8061,"date":"2021-11-21T06:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2021-11-21T06:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T22:03:01","slug":"melaka-polls-bn-wins-21-seats-ph-five-pn-two-ec-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/11\/21\/melaka-polls-bn-wins-21-seats-ph-five-pn-two-ec-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Melaka polls: BN wins 21 seats, PH five, PN two &#8211; EC chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELAKA: The Election Commission (EC) announced that Barisan Nasional (BN) has won 21 out of the 28 State Legislative Assembly seats in the Melaka election on Saturday.<br \/>\nEC chairman Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh, who announced the election results, said Pakatan Harapan (PH) won five seats and Perikatan Nasional (PN) two seats.<br \/>\nHe also said that a total of\u00a0326,068 people, or 65.85 per cent of voters, cast their ballots on Saturday.<br \/>\n&#8220;The total encompasses normal voters, early voters and postal voters,\u201d he told a media conference here tonight, adding that\u00a0the polling process went smoothly.<br \/>\nHe also thanked all parties involved in the Melaka polls this time.<br \/>\nThe Melaka election was held today (Nov 20) following the dissolution of the State Legislative Assembly on Oct 4 after four assemblymen withdrew their support for Chief Minister Datuk Seri Sulaiman Md Ali.<br \/>\n&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELAKA: The Election Commission (EC) announced that Barisan Nasional (BN) has won 21 out of the 28 State Legislative Assembly seats in the Melaka election on Saturday. EC chairman Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh, who announced the election results, said Pakatan Harapan (PH) won five seats and Perikatan Nasional (PN) two seats. He also said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8063,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions\/8063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}