Polling centres across Bahrain closed at 08:00 PM paving the way for vote counting to start. Voters headed to their respective polling stations at 08:00 AM to exercise their constitutional rights and cast their ballots in the run-off elections so as to elect the most competent Mps who will serve their nation and society.
More than 100 candidates were in the fray in the second round in 34 parliamentary constituencies and 21 municipal ones. Bahrainis participated massively in the first round as the voter turn-out topped 52%, which amounts to 153,000 voters out of an overall bloc of 340,000 eligible voters.