The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is reporting 57 % turn out for special services voting, yesterday.

The EOJ said it has completed the sorting of ballots cast by special services electors for the general election and local government by-elections.

Police, military and election day workers voted.

The exercise revealed that 25,938 election day workers, police and military electors combined voted.

This represents a voter turn out of 57% for the general election.

45,455 special services electors were eligible to vote.

For the by-elections in the electoral divisions of Chancery Hall, Olympic Gardens and Denham Town, the overall voter turnout was 50 %.

During special services voting, each elector’s ballot was placed into an envelope corresponding with his/her constituency and/or electoral division.

The sorting of the envelopes containing ballot papers cast commenced after the close of polls.

While the Electoral Office has determined how many ballots have been received, there is no indication of how many votes each candidate has received, as the envelopes remain sealed and vaulted until the counting on election day.

The special services ballots will be transferred to the returning officers for the respective constituencies and deposited at pre-determined polling stations on election day.

The ballots will then be counted together with the ballots cast on September 3.