Of­fi­cial fig­ures, in­clud­ing vot­er turnout, will be re­leased by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) but PNM To­ba­go of­fi­cials and UNC’s chair­man yes­ter­day re­port­ed low turnouts in To­ba­go and Trinidad elec­tions re­spec­tive­ly.

In To­ba­go’s THA elec­tions, 51,062 peo­ple were el­i­gi­ble to vote. In the five by-elec­tions, there was a to­tal of 32, 351 el­i­gi­ble vot­ers. The elec­torate in the five ar­eas com­pris­es Ari­ma Cen­tral—4,147 vot­ers, Cunu­pia—8,318, Hin­dus­tan/St Mary’s—8,723, Hol­ly­wood—2,748) and Morne Co­co/Alyce Glen—8,415)

PNM To­ba­go chair­man Stan­ford Cal­len­dar said at 3 pm a low turnout in the THA polls was not­ed and that was in PNM’s favour.

Cal­len­dar said he was on­ly aware of one is­sue where a Scar­bor­ough Calder Hall polling sta­tion opened half an hour late.

A spokesman who an­swered PDP leader Far­ley Au­gus­tine’s phone said there was an ex­cel­lent turnout with no is­sues not­ed.

In Trinidad, PNM PRO Lau­rel Leza­ma-Lee Sing said there had been a mod­er­ate lev­el of vot­ers “slight­ly low­er than Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment polls.” UNC chair­man Dave Tan­coo al­so re­port­ed a low turnout.

UNC deputy leader Jear­lean John said there had been no re­ports of any in­ci­dents that es­ca­lat­ed.