{"id":50376,"date":"2022-11-19T20:20:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/19\/malaysia-elections-record-turnout-brings-polling-station-queues"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:52:32","slug":"malaysia-elections-record-turnout-brings-polling-station-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50376","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia elections: opposition takes narrow early lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clear winner from three main contenders looks unlikely in first election since voting age lowered to 18<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took a narrow lead in Saturday\u2019s general election, though he and his main contenders were far short of a simple majority needed to form the government, early results from the election commission showed.<\/p>\n<p>The former premier Muhyiddin Yassin took an early close second, while the ruling coalition of the prime minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, put up the weakest showing among the three main contenders, losing ground in traditional strongholds, the results showed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/19\/malaysia-elections-record-turnout-brings-polling-station-queues\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear winner from three main contenders looks unlikely in first election since voting age lowered to 18Malaysia\u2019s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took a narrow lead in Saturday\u2019s general election, though he and his main contenders were far short of a s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50384,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50376\/revisions\/50384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}