2 Bukit Menang 1 Batang Kalah



Nampaknya secara rasmi Bukit Gantang PKR telah menang.

Bukit Selambau kemungkinan besar menang.

Batang air sudah hilang batangnya.

Bukit Selambau

The official results for Bt Selambau bye-election released by the returning officer showed Keadilan’s S Manikumar winning by a majority of 2,403 votes, obtaining 12,632 to BN’s 10,229. There were 13 Independent candidates, none of whom managed to take more than 250 votes. The total votes obtained by the independent candidates is 1,326. Manikumar increased the previous majority of 2,362 votes chalked in March 2008, by Arumugam. Total number of spoilt votes for this constituency is 415.

Bukit Gantang

TAIPING: PR’s Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin won the Bukit Gantang parliamentary by-election with a majority of 2,789 votes. He beat Barisan Nasional’s Ismail Saffian and independent Kamarul Ramizu Idris.

The 52-year-old Perak mentri besar garnered 21,860 votes against Ismail’s 19,071. Kamarul Ramizu only managed to secure 62 votes and lost his deposit. Ismail, 49, is the only local candidate in this three-cornered contest. Nizar, who hails from Kampar, is a registered voter in Pasir Panjang in the southern part of Perak. Barisan’s expectation of securing more support by fielding a local candidate did not materialise. The coalition managed to get 622 more votes compared with the 18,449 votes it had secured in 2008 general election.

PAS, through Nizar, improved its vote count by 1,845 votes compared with the 20,015 votes it garnered in 2008.


Batang Ai

The Barisan Nasional (BN) retained the Batang Ai state seat after its candidate, Malcolm Mussen Lamoh, won the by-election today with a 1,854-vote majority. Newcomer Mussen, a former engineer with the Sarawak Agriculture Department, garnered 3,907 votes to defeat veteran politician Jawah Gerang, the former five-term Lubok Antu Member of Parliament, who obtained 2,053 votes, in a straight fight.

Returning officer Nelson Mujah Girie made the announcement at the Lubok Antu Sports Complex here at 7.45pm. Batang Ai, one of two state seats under the Lubok Antu parliamentary constituency, has 8,006 registered voters, including 43 postal voters.

In the May 2006 state election, BN incumbent Datuk Dublin Unting Ingkot won the Iban-majority seat beating Nicholas Bawin Anggat from the Sarawak National Party (SNAP) with a 860-vote majority. The seat fell vacant following Unting’s death on Feb 24.