PUTRAJAYA: The Election Commission (EC) has fixed Dec 2 as polling day for the Kemaman parliamentary seat by-election in Terengganu.

EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Salleh said the commission also set Nov 18 as nomination day and Nov 28 for early voting.

"An allocation of RM3.5 million is needed to carry out the Kemaman parliamentary seat by-election," he said in a press conference at the commission's headquarters in Putrajaya near here.

The Dewan Berlian Utama in Kemaman, said Abdul Ghani, will serve as the nomination centre and the vote tallying centre.

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He added that the Aug 2023 Supplementary Electoral Roll, which has been updated until Oct 13, will be used for the by-election and will be on sale starting Nov 14.

Kemaman, which is one of the eight parliamentary constituencies in Terengganu, has 141,790 eligible voters. Of the total, 141,382 are ordinary voters, 387 police personnel, nine members of the armed forces, and 12 absent overseas voters.

The voters are expected to cast their ballots via 49 ordinary and early voting streams at 244 polling centres located throughout the parliamentary constituency.

Abdul Ghani also announced that the commission has appointed a returning officer, who will be assisted by seven assistants to handle the by-election in kemaman. They will also be assisted by 2,102 election workers.

"The EC will also set-up two election campaign enforcement teams comprising the police, local authorities as well as representatives of candidates contesting in the polls," he said.

Previously, Pas secretary-general Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan said that the party has decided not to appeal the Election Court's decision to annul the party's win in the Kemaman parliamentary constituency in the 15th General Election (GE15) last year.

The Terengganu Election Court had annulled Che Alias' victory in Kemaman in GE15 after judge Datuk Anselm Charles Fernandis said the petitioner, voter Wan Mohamad Hisham Wan Abdul Jalil, succeeded in proving that corruption had taken place with the aim of influencing voters in GE15.

Earlier, on Feb 12, Wan Hisham's petition was struck out after the High Court accepted the preliminary objections raised by the respondents in the case.