06 Apr 2019, 9:00 AM
After a hard-fought campaign, voting is under way in the third multi-party parliamentary elections of the Maldives since a democratic constitution was adopted in 2008.
On several islands, voters queued up hours before polls opened at 8am. There are 501 ballot boxes in polling stations across the Maldives as well as Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia and England.
Some 264,442 people are eligible to vote.
Some 386 candidates are competing for 87 seats in the 19th People’s Majlis, the country’s unicameral legislature. Under a first-past-the-post system, the candidate who wins a plurality or the largest share of votes will be elected to a five-year term to represent 5,000 constituents.
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