P014 N25 Bukit Selambau - Large DUN with 22 Voting Stations and 64 Streams

Although only a state seat, Bukit Selambau has 35,140 voters, and is larger than 60 parliamentary seats. Voters will vote at 22 voting stations (TMs) and 64 voting streams (saluran). The largest 2 voting stations will be crowded with 5,122 and 4,179 voters respectively.

According to the electoral roll used in GE12, Bukit Selambau was the 22th largest DUN out of 576 DUNs (excluding the pitiful KL and other FTs which were taxed without state representation). In contrast, P203 N 29 Batang Air, another state assembly seat undergoing by-election also on April 7, was the 543th largest out of 572 state seats in Malaysia.

As of GE12, Bukit Selambau DUN was larger than 60 out of 222 parliamentary seats, and was larger than the parliamentary seats of Sandakan (~33k voters), Langkawi (~30k), Gua Musang (~29k), Kuala Kangsar (~28k), Labuan (~21k), and Putrajaya (<7k).

Bukit Selambau should have been represented by its own MP in the parliament, instead of remaining just a DUN!

Table A, C, and D show that:

• We are dealing with a single DUN only, P014 N25 Bukit Selambau
• Bukit Selambau has 35,125 non-postal voters, and only 15 postal voters.
• Postal voters include 10 police personnel, and 5 outstation/absentee voters
• This DUN (state assembly seat) contains 22 voting districts (DM, Daerah Mengundi).
• Each DM is using 1 voting station/centre (TM, Tempat Mengundi). There are no DMs sharing a TM.
• There are 64 voting streams (saluran) in this DUN.
  

Table A: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Summary of Data By DUN

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	DM count	TM count	Saluran count	Voter count
014/25/01	Bukit Selambau	22	22	64	35,125
Total nonpostal	1	22	22	64	35,125
Postal voters					15
Total including postal voteres					35,140

Table B shows:

• A list of 22 schools used as voting centers for Bukit Selambau.
• The smallest voting center (TM) has only 359 voters,
• The largest 2 contain 5,122 and 4,179 voters respectively, using 8 and 7 voting streams.
• Not found in WikiMapia.org map around this area, the two largest voting stations appear to be two new schools in Taman Ria Jaya and Bandar Baru, a newly developed area.
  

Table B: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Non-Postal Voters By DM, with Info on TM/Saluran/Voter Count. Note NONE of the DMs share the same TMs.

Parl/ DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	TM	Saluran count	Voter count
014/25/01	Bukit Selambau	Kuala Sin	Sekolah Kebangsaan Kampung Kuala Sin Bukit Selambau	2	831
014/25/02	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Sungkap	Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Selambau	1	600
014/25/03	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Lembu	Sekolah Kebangsaan Aman Jaya	2	1,223
014/25/04	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Baru	7	4,179
014/25/05	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (China) Chung Hwa	4	1,986
014/25/06	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Lalang	4	2,514
014/25/07	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	Sekolah Menengah Teknik Sungai Petani 2	2	971
014/25/08	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	Sekolah Kebangsaan Tasek Apong	3	1,363
014/25/09	Bukit Selambau	Air Menideh	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil) Saraswathy Sungai Petani	3	1,695
014/25/10	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bandar Sungai Petani	2	796
014/25/11	Bukit Selambau	Taman Peruda	Institut Kemahiran Mara Sungai Petani	3	1,936
014/25/12	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	Sekolah Kebangsaan Taman Ria Sungai Petani	4	2,244
014/25/13	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Taman Ria Jaya	8	5,122
014/25/14	Bukit Selambau	United Petani	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil) Ladang Perbadanan Kedah Sungai Petani	2	973
014/25/15	Bukit Selambau	Petani Para	Sekolah Kebangsaan Petani Para Sungai Petani	1	359
014/25/16	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Rusa	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil) Palanisamy Kumaran	1	667
014/25/17	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (China) Fuh Sun Bukit Selambau	4	1,986
014/25/18	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Pokok Machang	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bukit Selambau	1	696
014/25/19	Bukit Selambau	Batu Belachan	Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Wangsa Sungai Petani	2	785
014/25/20	Bukit Selambau	Titi Panjang	Sekolah Kebangsaan Dataran Muda Sungai Petani	2	1,058
014/25/21	Bukit Selambau	Ambangan Height	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Aman Jaya	1	647
014/25/22	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	Sekolah Menengah Sains Sultan Mohamad Jiwa	5	2,494
Subtotal - Non-postal voters				64	35,125

You can contribute by:

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Table C: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL (POLICE) Voters By Localities
POLICE voters only

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah	TM	Count
014/25/05/701	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	Pondok Polis Sg Lalang		Pos	1
014/25/17/701	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Balai Polis Bukit Selambau		Pos	9
Total						10

Table D: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL (ABSENTEE) Voters By Localities
ABSENTEE, non-police, postal voters

Kodlokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti		TM	Count
014/25/04/801	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	Pemilih Tak Hadir		Pos	1
014/25/07/801	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	Pemilih Tak Hadir		Pos	1
014/25/08/801	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	Pemilih Tidak Hadir		Pos	1
014/25/10/801	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	Pemilih Tak Hadir		Pos	1
014/25/17/801	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Pemilih Tak Hadir		Pos	1
Total						5