The Election Commission (EC) has denied allegations by the DAP that it deliberately delayed announcing the result of the Sibu by-election last night.

Its chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said it was the party's agents who had prevented EC officers from bringing postal ballots which had been counted at the 9th Floor, Wisma Sanyan, to the vote tallying centre at the Sibu Civic Centre, located just three kilometres away.