The Long and Winding Localities? Or the Single Voter's Place?

A voting locality in the SPR database - normally representing a street, army camp, or police quarters - can be so small that it contains only a single voter, or it can look like a long road that accommodates over 7,000 voters.

In the electoral roll gazetted on 2008 Feb 5 and used in the Mar 8 general election:

• There are 10,922,139 voters and 94,801 voting "localities" - each usually representing a street, an army camp, or police quarters.
• Average locality size is 115 person per locality.


• There are 94,079 localities when we exclude 722 Absentee Voters (Pemilih Tak Hadir)
• The localities for Absentee Voters typically accommodate 1 to 2 absentee voters under each voting district (Daerah Mengundi).


• Table A lists examples of the largest localities.
  
• Out of these 94,079 places, 229 locality/street/camp/quarters are so large, that each accommodates over 2000 voters.
• The largest locality (Sarawak/Miri/Pujut/Krokop/Krokop) alone contains 7,726 voters.
• Another 1,048 localities accommodate 1000-1999 voters.


• At the opposite end, 3,501 localities are so small they accommodate only a single voters (we have excluded Absentee Voters or Pemilih Tak Hadir).
• Another 3,085 localities accommodate 2 voters (excluding Absentee Voters).
• Table B lists the smallest localities, excluding absentees.
  

Why the large variation in localities? Why expand and create new localities (which the SPR does regularly) when ultra small or ultra large localities are not dealt with?

Table A: 10 Examples on Very Long Street or Very Large Voting Localities

Kodlokaliti	Negeri	NamaParlimen	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	Count_Voters
2196402001	Sarawak	Miri	Pujut	Krokop	KROKOP	7,726
1951003001	Sarawak	Bandar Kuching	Pending	Kenyalang	KENYALANG PARK	5,555
1302304001	Negeri Sembilan	Rasah	Mambau	Rasah Jaya	TMN RASAH JAYA	5,492
1240001001	W.P Kuala Lumpur	Bandar Tun Razak		Rumah Pangsa Sri Johor Cheras	RUMAH PANGSA SRI JOHOR	5,107
2196504001	Sarawak	Miri	Senadin	Riam	RIAM RD	4,847
0142513001	Kedah	Merbok	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	TAMAN RIA JAYA	4,702
1160006001	W.P Kuala Lumpur	Wangsa Maju		Seksyen 2 Wangsa Maju	SEKSYEN 2 WANGSA MAJU	4,656
1160009004	W.P Kuala Lumpur	Wangsa Maju		Seksyen 1 Wangsa Maju	SEKSYEN 1 BANDAR BARU W/MAJU	4,649
1190013017	W.P Kuala Lumpur	Titiwangsa		Kelab Golf Selangor	DESA PANDAN	4,562
1302404004	Negeri Sembilan	Rasah	Senawang	Taman Seremban Jaya	TMN SEREMBAN JAYA	4,343

Table B: 10 Examples on Single-Voter Voting Locality

Kodlokaliti	Negeri	NamaParlimen	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	Count_Voters
1690608400	Sabah	Kota Belud	Tempasuk	Tempasuk	11 ARMOR	1
1032905402	Selangor	Puchong	Seri Serdang	Bandar Kinrara Seksyen 1	21 KOMP UBAT GGK KEM KINRARA	1
0981610402	Selangor	Gombak	Batu Caves	Pekan Batu Caves Lama	21 PL BEKALAN GGK	1
1115015020	Selangor	Kota Raja	Sri Muda	Bukit Rimau	32/109	1
0852001422	Pahang	Pekan	Pulau Manis	Seri Mahkota	4 BN UBAT	1
1333407416	Negeri Sembilan	Tampin	Gemas	Taman Sentosa	44 WORKSHOP ARTELERI	1
1094515060	Selangor	Kapar	Selat Klang	Sungai Udang Selatan	5320-C JLN SG UDANG	1
1916005401	Sabah	Kalabakan	Sebatik	Padang Terbang	571 PP TAWAU	1
0653008001	Perak	Ipoh Barat	Buntong	Jalan Tun Perak	ANDAL TERRACE	1
0780113037	Pahang	Cameron Highlands	Tanah Rata	Bandar Ringlet	APARTMENT ASTER	1