MNW By-Election

Yangomina's 5,228 votes will be distributed in exclusion 38. 

Four candidates now remain in elimination.

Candidate Lohia Boe Samuel still leads the race with 22,028 votes. 

Progressive scores are:

1. Lohia Boe Samuel - 22,028 

2. Joe Tonde - 10,197 

3. Sengol A Parkop - 7,780 

4. Dr Thaddeus Kambanei - 7,733 

Absolute majority is at 26,489. 

Declaration is soon to follow. 

The Government House is also preparing for the return of writs at 2pm today.

 At Ward 11, ballot box number 69 was disputed due to missing serial box tag number.

The Assistant Presiding Officer Robert Yallas says the missing serial box tag number might have been misplaced while packing.

At around 12 pm, the booth was still closed with few voters with the surname starting with T-Z, were turned away at the Waigani Police Station polling booth.