Official figures show a record-low voter turnout in Saturday's presidential election with only 75 percent of the eligible voters exercising their right to vote.
Elections Commission (EC) Secretary General Hassan Zakariya told Adhadhu that about 75 percent of the voters cast their ballots in the election.
Some 282,395 people were eligible to vote in the presidential election, including 27,006 first-time voters.
During the first multi-party presidential election in 2008, 209,294 people were eligible to vote, with a turnout of 86.5 percent.
In 2013, 218,619 people were eligible to vote, with a turnout of 91.4 percent, and in 2018, 233,889 people were eligible to vote with a turnout of 89.2 percent.
A total of 574 polling stations have been set up with 176 in Male' region, 319 in the atolls, 65 in resorts, eight in different countries, five in prisons and one in industrial islands.
