The voter turnout for the by-elections in Morant Bay, Aenon Town, Trelawny Southern and St Andrew North Western ranged from 2.65 to 19.01 per cent up to 11:00am on Friday.

According to the Electoral Office of Jamaica, the by-election in Aenon Town, which is being contested by the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Suzette Barton and the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Delroy Dawson, has the highest voter turnout so far of 19.01 per cent.

The other local government by-election in St Thomas Eastern where the Jamaica Labour Party’s Winston Downie and the People’s National Party’s Rosemarie Shaw are battling it out for the Morant Bay Division, which has been without a councillor since May this year, follows at 13.63 per cent.

As expected, the voter turnouts in the two parliamentary by-elections, which the People’s National Party has boycotted, are very low – 9.43 per cent in Trelawny Southern, where the JLP’s Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert is expected to cruise to an easy victory, and 2.65 per cent in St Andrew North West where the JLP’s Duane Smith is also expected to win.