From Malaysiakini:
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BN wins Batu Kintang, gets more votes than PKR, DAP combined
8:20PM: DAP candidate Abdul Aziz Isa has conceded defeat in the Batu Kitang seat, where he was fielded at the eleventh hour in retaliation against PKR, following its refusal to budge from five other seats.
In posting on Facebook, Aziz congratulated BN’s Lo Khere Chiang for winning the seat.
"Although I lost with marginal votes but it was a great fight. The battle of the year! This is my first time contesting and I would like to thank to all of our DAP supporters," he said.
Both PKR and DAP have blamed each other for the failure of the seat negotiations.
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There is another dimension of what is going on - gerrymandering. The EC is changing districts and redrawing their lines. The international standard is to follow administrative lines, and not to split communities. Largely in Sarawak this has been done in the past, especially compared to the peninsula. There were exceptions, such as the competitive Bukit Assek seat in Sibu.
Yet, in the last 2015 re-delineation exercise, there was considerable more movement of polling stations outside of boundaries. In seats such as Batu Lintang, Piasau and Tanjong Datu (formerly Kidurong), polling stations were carved as these seats became less Chinese, and to weaken the opposition’s chances (although they are likely to still hold onto these seats). In the case of Batu Lintang, a new seat was created that aimed to give the BN a chance to win around Kuching. This seat, Batu Kitang, is competitive this contest.
BN wins Batu Kintang, gets more votes than PKR, DAP combined
8:20PM: DAP candidate Abdul Aziz Isa has conceded defeat in the Batu Kitang seat, where he was fielded at the eleventh hour in retaliation against PKR, following its refusal to budge from five other seats.
In posting on Facebook, Aziz congratulated BN’s Lo Khere Chiang for winning the seat.
"Although I lost with marginal votes but it was a great fight. The battle of the year! This is my first time contesting and I would like to thank to all of our DAP supporters," he said.
Both PKR and DAP have blamed each other for the failure of the seat negotiations.
As of 8.20pm, DAP garnered 4,628 votes, while PKR has 889 votes. The combined votes of both parties still falls short of BN’s 6,494 votes.
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BN votes = 6494
DAP (4628) + PKR (889) = 5517
BN clear of DAP + PKR combined votes by 977.
However there is no telling what would have been the real majority (or even if BN would have won) if PKR had not played the mischievous spoiler, insisting on getting the seat where the voters favoured DAP far more than PKR.
BN votes = 6494
DAP (4628) + PKR (889) = 5517
BN clear of DAP + PKR combined votes by 977.
However there is no telling what would have been the real majority (or even if BN would have won) if PKR had not played the mischievous spoiler, insisting on getting the seat where the voters favoured DAP far more than PKR.
Indeed, who knows how many voters had given their votes to BN in disgust at the totally unnecessary and shameless scuffle between the two so-called Pakatan allies?
Malaysiakini reported that DAP and PKR have lost all the six seats in which the two Pakatan Harapan allies locked horns following the failure of seat negotiations.
Mind, it's true that Bridget Welsh wrote in Malaysiakini's A 'fixed' result - Sarawak's electoral distortion (extracts only):
There is another dimension of what is going on - gerrymandering. The EC is changing districts and redrawing their lines. The international standard is to follow administrative lines, and not to split communities. Largely in Sarawak this has been done in the past, especially compared to the peninsula. There were exceptions, such as the competitive Bukit Assek seat in Sibu.
Yet, in the last 2015 re-delineation exercise, there was considerable more movement of polling stations outside of boundaries. In seats such as Batu Lintang, Piasau and Tanjong Datu (formerly Kidurong), polling stations were carved as these seats became less Chinese, and to weaken the opposition’s chances (although they are likely to still hold onto these seats). In the case of Batu Lintang, a new seat was created that aimed to give the BN a chance to win around Kuching. This seat, Batu Kitang, is competitive this contest.
Merdeka polls had placed DAP's support in Batu Kitang at 60%, twice that of BN. PKR was estimated at only 8%. But f**king PKR merajuk and brawled like a spoilt brat to get it.
Batu Kitang has 17489 registered voters but the turnout was only 68.7%.
The 8% support that Merdeka polling gave PKR works out to be an estimated 961 votes (based on the 68.7% turnout, as with other stats in this post).
PKR's actual vote count is only 899 or 7.4%, which indicates the Merdeka polling had been reasonably correct, unlike the UUM poll which I commented on in my previous post PKR reaching 'escape velocity' in Batu Kitang? The UUM survey had preposterously put PKR securing a bullshittish 33% support.
But as I said in that post, I don't and cannot rely on the UUM poll apart from the self-confession by PKR that it was made known to (only) PKR by an "unidentified" source, wakakaka, at the eleventh minute, wakakaka again.
DAP's 4628 votes worked out to be 38.5%, not good enough to win nor near the predicted 60%, but decently respectable than the humiliating PKR's 889 votes, especially considering DAP had courageously put a Malay candidate against the BN and PKR Chinese candidates who had hoped to capitalise on the 59% Chinese majority constituency. BN-SUPP succeeded.
But DAP is to be applauded for its courageous multiracial venture, a la Teluk Intan when it stood a young Malay woman against Gerakan party president who alas for Sweetie Dyana Sofya, managed to scrap though.
But in the final analysis, PKR should be f**king proud that it had sabotaged DAP kau kau in 5 other Sarawakian state seats by reneging on the signed agreement between PKR (by Wan Azizah) and DAP, a treacherous act, one so unrepentant that led an angry DAP to step into Batu Kitang as payback.
But in doing so, at least DAP gave BN a fight because if DAP had not stepped in to contest, the BN candidate would have walked away laughing with a won seat uncontested as the PKR candidate would have been disqualified on nomination day, wakakaka.
F**k PKR.