Latest voter information shows that today's election had the lowest voter turnout for a Presidential Election held in the country since 2008.
The latest ballot counting shows voter turnout at 78.92 percent at the time of reporting with 569 ballot boxes out of the 574 boxes now counted.
The Elections Commission has yet to confirm voter turnout figures but it said earlier that it expected the figure to be between 73 to 75 percent.
This would make today's election, the lowest turnout for a presidential election in the last four polls.
In 2008, the first time multiple parties were allowed to compete in the election, voter turnout was at 86.5 percent.
Back in 2013, this figure reached a whopping 91.4 percent while five years ago in 2018 voter turnout was at 89.2 percent.
A total of 282,395 voters were eligible to cast their ballots in today's election with more than 20,000 new voters.
But voters now get the chance to redeem and exercise their electoral rights as the Presidential Election would now be decided in run-off as no candidate won an outright majority in the first round of voting.
The run-off would be between PNC Candidate Dr. Mohamed Muizzu who has secured more than 100,000 votes at the time of reporting and MDP Candidate President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih who has received more than 85,000 votes.
The run-off will be held on the 30th of this month.
