Bukit Selambau - Racial Breakdown by Saluran

Unfortunately, our countrymen and women still vote on racially based issues. Hence it is still important to analyze racial composition of voters. But only the government has all the detailed breakdown. Here is our attempt at balancing the information power, and to come up with an estimation voter ethnicity distribution down to the voting stream.

Our algorithm is based on the patterns in voter names:

• Our algorithm is crude, but still ends up with reasonably accurate and useful results,
• It currently cannot handle the Dayak name pattern (as in Batang Air). We will improve it later,
• The "Other" minority ethnic names, such as Thai names, tend to be lumped into the "Chinese" category, inflating it by perhaps 1% where the "Other" is significant, such as 1% in Bukit Selambau,
  
• We have compared the official ethnic breakdown (from UNDI.info) against this estimation, both using the older GE12 roll. The results are very close, with differentials from 0.1% for the Malay component to 1.5% for the Chinese components, at the DUN or parliament level.

• Further, because any estimation bias is likely to be cumulative (not offsetting), a small error at DUN level would mean EVEN SMALLER errors at DM or Saluran level.

Although a practically useful estimation, this is still only a crude estimation.


Table: P014N25 Bukit Selambau Voters - 200902
Ethnic Breakdown - Estimation By a Crude Algorithm. Note postal voters include non-police, absentee voters.

parl/DUN /DM	Sa lu ran	NamaDUN	NamaDM	TM	Ma lay	Chi nese	In dian	To tal		% Ma lay	% Chi nese	% In dian	% Total
014/25/01	1	Bukit Selambau	Kuala Sin	SK Kampung Kuala Sin Bukit Selambau	338	1	11	350		96.6%	0.3%	3.1%	100%
014/25/01	2	Bukit Selambau	Kuala Sin	SK Kampung Kuala Sin Bukit Selambau	469	2	10	481		97.5%	0.4%	2.1%	100%
014/25/02	1	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Sungkap	SK Bukit Selambau	489	16	95	600		81.5%	2.7%	15.8%	100%
014/25/03	1	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Lembu	SK Aman Jaya	175	25	350	550		31.8%	4.6%	63.6%	100%
014/25/03	2	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Lembu	SK Aman Jaya	222	14	437	673		33.0%	2.1%	64.9%	100%
014/25/04	0	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	Pos	-	1	-	1		0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	100%
014/25/04	1	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	SK Bandar Baru	149	76	125	350		42.6%	21.7%	35.7%	100%
014/25/04	2	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	SK Bandar Baru	409	76	153	638		64.1%	11.9%	24.0%	100%
014/25/04	3	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	SK Bandar Baru	395	70	173	638		61.9%	11.0%	27.1%	100%
014/25/04	4	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	SK Bandar Baru	269	96	273	638		42.2%	15.1%	42.8%	100%
014/25/04	5	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	SK Bandar Baru	257	87	294	638		40.3%	13.6%	46.1%	100%
014/25/04	6	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	SK Bandar Baru	318	58	262	638		49.8%	9.1%	41.1%	100%
014/25/04	7	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	SK Bandar Baru	330	61	248	639		51.6%	9.6%	38.8%	100%
014/25/05	0	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	Pos	-	-	1	1		0.0%	0.0%	100.0%	100%
014/25/05	1	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	SJKC Chung Hwa	63	219	68	350		18.0%	62.6%	19.4%	100%
014/25/05	2	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	SJKC Chung Hwa	106	306	133	545		19.5%	56.2%	24.4%	100%
014/25/05	3	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	SJKC Chung Hwa	139	258	148	545		25.5%	47.3%	27.2%	100%
014/25/05	4	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	SJKC Chung Hwa	148	230	168	546		27.1%	42.1%	30.8%	100%
014/25/06	1	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	SK Sungai Lalang	286	75	89	450		63.6%	16.7%	19.8%	100%
014/25/06	2	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	SK Sungai Lalang	526	46	112	684		76.9%	6.7%	16.4%	100%
014/25/06	3	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	SK Sungai Lalang	385	103	196	684		56.3%	15.1%	28.7%	100%
014/25/06	4	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	SK Sungai Lalang	431	61	204	696		61.9%	8.8%	29.3%	100%
014/25/07	0	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	Pos	1	-	-	1		100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100%
014/25/07	1	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	SM Teknik Sungai Petani 2	55	59	236	350		15.7%	16.9%	67.4%	100%
014/25/07	2	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	SM Teknik Sungai Petani 2	126	199	296	621		20.3%	32.1%	47.7%	100%
014/25/08	0	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	Pos	1	-	-	1		100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	100%
014/25/08	1	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	SK Tasek Apong	212	46	92	350		60.6%	13.1%	26.3%	100%
014/25/08	2	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	SK Tasek Apong	247	102	157	506		48.8%	20.2%	31.0%	100%
014/25/08	3	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	SK Tasek Apong	240	119	148	507		47.3%	23.5%	29.2%	100%
014/25/09	1	Bukit Selambau	Air Menideh	SJKT Saraswathy Sungai Petani	43	217	90	350		12.3%	62.0%	25.7%	100%
014/25/09	2	Bukit Selambau	Air Menideh	SJKT Saraswathy Sungai Petani	95	323	254	672		14.1%	48.1%	37.8%	100%
014/25/09	3	Bukit Selambau	Air Menideh	SJKT Saraswathy Sungai Petani	129	280	264	673		19.2%	41.6%	39.2%	100%
014/25/10	0	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	Pos	-	1	-	1		0.0%	100.0%	0.0%	100%
014/25/10	1	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	SMK Bandar Sungai Petani	91	147	112	350		26.0%	42.0%	32.0%	100%
014/25/10	2	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	SMK Bandar Sungai Petani	193	89	164	446		43.3%	20.0%	36.8%	100%
014/25/11	1	Bukit Selambau	Taman Peruda	Institut Kemahiran Mara Sungai Petani	391	47	112	550		71.1%	8.6%	20.4%	100%
014/25/11	2	Bukit Selambau	Taman Peruda	Institut Kemahiran Mara Sungai Petani	361	100	225	686		52.6%	14.6%	32.8%	100%
014/25/11	3	Bukit Selambau	Taman Peruda	Institut Kemahiran Mara Sungai Petani	454	61	185	700		64.9%	8.7%	26.4%	100%
014/25/12	1	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	SK Taman Ria Sungai Petani	223	100	27	350		63.7%	28.6%	7.7%	100%
014/25/12	2	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	SK Taman Ria Sungai Petani	445	129	57	631		70.5%	20.4%	9.0%	100%
014/25/12	3	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	SK Taman Ria Sungai Petani	347	203	81	631		55.0%	32.2%	12.8%	100%
014/25/12	4	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	SK Taman Ria Sungai Petani	476	100	56	632		75.3%	15.8%	8.9%	100%
014/25/13	1	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	105	164	81	350		30.0%	46.9%	23.1%	100%
014/25/13	2	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	344	213	124	681		50.5%	31.3%	18.2%	100%
014/25/13	3	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	376	176	129	681		55.2%	25.8%	18.9%	100%
014/25/13	4	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	338	191	152	681		49.6%	28.1%	22.3%	100%
014/25/13	5	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	292	222	167	681		42.9%	32.6%	24.5%	100%
014/25/13	6	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	221	251	209	681		32.5%	36.9%	30.7%	100%
014/25/13	7	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	236	202	243	681		34.7%	29.7%	35.7%	100%
014/25/13	8	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	SMK Taman Ria Jaya	298	133	255	686		43.4%	19.4%	37.2%	100%
014/25/14	1	Bukit Selambau	United Petani	SJKT Ladang Perbadanan Kedah Sungai Petani	70	12	268	350		20.0%	3.4%	76.6%	100%
014/25/14	2	Bukit Selambau	United Petani	SJKT Ladang Perbadanan Kedah Sungai Petani	169	26	428	623		27.1%	4.2%	68.7%	100%
014/25/15	1	Bukit Selambau	Petani Para	SK Petani Para Sungai Petani	93	14	252	359		25.9%	3.9%	70.2%	100%
014/25/16	1	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Rusa	SJKT Palanisamy Kumaran	154	35	478	667		23.1%	5.3%	71.7%	100%
014/25/17	0	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Pos	7	1	2	10		70.0%	10.0%	20.0%	100%
014/25/17	1	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	SJKC Fuh Sun Bukit Selambau	215	102	33	350		61.4%	29.1%	9.4%	100%
014/25/17	2	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	SJKC Fuh Sun Bukit Selambau	361	142	42	545		66.2%	26.1%	7.7%	100%
014/25/17	3	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	SJKC Fuh Sun Bukit Selambau	374	130	41	545		68.6%	23.9%	7.5%	100%
014/25/17	4	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	SJKC Fuh Sun Bukit Selambau	385	75	86	546		70.5%	13.7%	15.8%	100%
014/25/18	1	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Pokok Machang	SMK Bukit Selambau	619	16	61	696		88.9%	2.3%	8.8%	100%
014/25/19	1	Bukit Selambau	Batu Belachan	SK Seri Wangsa Sungai Petani	206	11	133	350		58.9%	3.1%	38.0%	100%
014/25/19	2	Bukit Selambau	Batu Belachan	SK Seri Wangsa Sungai Petani	267	10	158	435		61.4%	2.3%	36.3%	100%
014/25/20	1	Bukit Selambau	Titi Panjang	SK Dataran Muda Sungai Petani	290	43	117	450		64.4%	9.6%	26.0%	100%
014/25/20	2	Bukit Selambau	Titi Panjang	SK Dataran Muda Sungai Petani	514	12	82	608		84.5%	2.0%	13.5%	100%
014/25/21	1	Bukit Selambau	Ambangan Height	SMK Aman Jaya	407	95	145	647		62.9%	14.7%	22.4%	100%
014/25/22	1	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	SM Sains Sultan Mohamad Jiwa	166	153	31	350		47.4%	43.7%	8.9%	100%
014/25/22	2	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	SM Sains Sultan Mohamad Jiwa	344	156	36	536		64.2%	29.1%	6.7%	100%
014/25/22	3	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	SM Sains Sultan Mohamad Jiwa	263	210	63	536		49.1%	39.2%	11.8%	100%
014/25/22	4	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	SM Sains Sultan Mohamad Jiwa	229	242	65	536		42.7%	45.2%	12.1%	100%
014/25/22	5	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	SM Sains Sultan Mohamad Jiwa	321	131	84	536		59.9%	24.4%	15.7%	100%
Total					17,698	7,371	10,071	35,140		50.4%	21.0%	28.7%	100%

Note 1: If you cannot see the full table width, try to click Menu>View>zoom out (or Ctrl-Middle-Mouse-Button-Scroll). Alternatively, click-drag to highlight the table, copy, and paste into Excel to view.

Note 2: SM = Sekolah Menengah, SK=Sekolah Kebangsaan, SMK=Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan, SJKC = Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (China), SJKT = Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil), SAR = Sekolah Agama Rakyat.
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Bukit Selambau Changes - 553 additional and 390 deleted voters

In Bukit Selambau, 553 voter ICs were added and 390 voter ICs were deleted after GE12. The most changes took place in a few modern-sounding housing areas. As expected, the largest additions are in the 21-29 age group, and largest deletions in the 71-79 age group.

Is there anything sinister in these data? Not on the 10 police IC number changes. The size of the the roughly 390-550 regular voter changes over the first 3 quarters of 2008 look normal. Only field verification can tell more. Detailed lists of additions/deletions on a voter-by-voter basis are available for field verification.

What do "Additions" and "Deletions" mean? We have a table here that list the categories under each: Supplementary Voter Lists 2008q1 and 2007q4


Table A shows that, in Bukit Selambau (N25 under P014 Merbok), between 2007 Dec 31 (gazetted on 2008 Feb 5 for GE12) and 2008 Sep 30 (gazetted on 2009 Feb 19? for by-election):

• Overall, it looks like 553 voters were added and 390 deleted.
• In reality, 10 of these additions and deletions are "illusions." These are 10 police personnel who remained, only having their IC numbering changed,
• These are examples of actual pairs of changed police IC in Bukit Selambau: R0075654>RF75654; RT007366>RFT7366; R0107927>RF107927; R0102805>RF102805
• Another 2 police voters actually retired or moved out, and were really deleted,
  
• Non-police voter additions totaled 543 during the 3 quarters, and deletions totaled 378,
• The net change was 163 additional voters over 3 quarters, increasing the total voter count to 35,140.
  

Table A: P014N25 Batu Selambau Addition and Deletion of Voters 20080205-200902
Overview

Breakdown of changes 20080205-20090219	Deletions	Additions	Net changes
Voters with 12-digit Ics (incl absentees)	378	543	165
Police/military voter - change in IC number format	10	10	0
Police/military voter - real change in registration	2	0	-2
Apparent changes in all voters	390	553	163
	20080205	20090219	Difference
Total voter count	34,977	35,140	163

Table B shows:

• How many additions and deletions are grouped under each DM (Daerah Mengundi, voting districts),
• The most changes took place in the DMs of Taman Bandar Baru, Taman Ria Jaya, and Taman Ria Selatan.
• Taman Bandar Baru is where we have found a cluster of voters with house numbers, but not street names.
  
• We were worried that such non-specific addresses in what looks like modern housing estate makes it easier to hide any phantom voters. See discussion at No Street Names Despite Modern Housing in Bukit Selambau.
  

Table B: P014N25 Batu Selambau Addition and Deletion of Voters 20080205-200902
All voters with 12-Digit ICs - Excluding Police and Military Personnel

Does not exist in this electoral roll			20090200	20080205
Exists in this electoral roll			20080205	20090200
Meaning …			Deleted	Added
parl/DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	Count	Count
0142501	Bukit Selambau	Kuala Sin	9	5
0142502	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Sungkap	6	2
0142503	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Lembu	25	1
0142504	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	36	89
0142505	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	21	14
0142506	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	20	32
0142507	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	4	36
0142508	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	15	38
0142509	Bukit Selambau	Air Menideh	24	14
0142510	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	20	1
0142511	Bukit Selambau	Taman Peruda	17	29
0142512	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	14	43
0142513	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	30	86
0142514	Bukit Selambau	United Petani	18	6
0142515	Bukit Selambau	Petani Para	9	1
0142516	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Rusa	8	3
0142517	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	34	28
0142518	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Pokok Machang	8	5
0142519	Bukit Selambau	Batu Belachan	13	0
0142520	Bukit Selambau	Titi Panjang	17	13
0142521	Bukit Selambau	Ambangan Height	2	48
0142522	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	28	49
Subtotal - non-police, 12-digit-IC voters			378	543

Table C shows that:

• Unsurprisingly, the most deletion took place in the 70-79 age group,
• while the most additions took place in the 21-29 age group
  

Table C: P014N25 Bukit Selambau Voters - 12-DIGIT-IC Only
Additions and Deletions in 200902 Roll by Age Groups - 12-DIGIT-IC

Age	Tahunlahir	Tahunlahir	Deleted in	Added in				Deleted	Added
Group	From	To	20090219?	20090219?	Net	Change %		% of total	% of total
21-29	1979	1987	21	310	289	1376.2%		5.6%	57.1%
30-39	1969	1978	28	127	99	353.6%		7.4%	23.4%
40-49	1959	1968	63	57	(6)	-9.5%		16.7%	10.5%
50-59	1949	1958	59	37	(22)	-37.3%		15.6%	6.8%
60-69	1939	1948	74	10	(64)	-86.5%		19.6%	1.8%
70-79	1929	1938	79	2	(77)	-97.5%		20.9%	0.4%
80-89	1919	1928	40	-	(40)	-100.0%		10.6%	0.0%
90-99	1909	1918	10	-	(10)	-100.0%		2.6%	0.0%
100+	1884	1908	4	-	(4)	-100.0%		1.1%	0.0%
Total			378	543	165	43.7%		100.0%	100.0%

Related articles on voter changes, police IC number formats:

• 1001 Police IC Changes = 1001 Potential Confusions
• Were 900+ Voters Deleted and Replaced in Permatang Pauh?
• Supplementary Voter Lists 2008q1 and 2007q4
• Batang Air Changes - 237 Additions and 188 Deletions
• Bukit Selambau Changes - 553 additional and 390 deleted voters
  
• Bukit Gantang changes - 1048 Additions and 957 Deletions
  

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No Street Names Despite Modern Housing in Bukit Selambau

Another problem with SPR data is the many voters registered without street names in modern housing areas, despite having a house number. More than 2/3 of voters in Taman Bandar Baru (the "new town garden"), eg, are registered with house number, but without street address.

While the previous blog entry highlighted a large number of voters registered without house number, this article questions those registered even with house numbers but without the street name. Such vague registration opens the ground for possible electoral frauds and phantom voters.

Why should SPR repeat the address information of Taman Peruda/Taman Peruda (DM/lokaliti), or Taman Bandar Baru/Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang, but miss out the street name (such as Lorong 1 or Jalan 1)?

This issue is similar to the "big houses" issue discussed in

• Bukit Gantang - 70 Houses with 15 or More Voters
• 90 Voters in a Big House in KT
• 83 Voters in the Same House - More SPR Negligence?

Table A shows that in Bukit Selambau (N25 under P014) in Kedah:

• 94 addresses of "big houses" are each registered with 15 or more voters ,
• these are addresses with specific house number,
• an example is that 85 voters live in 014/25/04/007 (Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Bandar Baru/Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang ), registered WITH the house number 7
  

• What's going on? Why such a "big house?"
  
• Why does SPR repeat the information "Taman Bandar Baru" twice but not give information on what "Jalan" or "Lorong"?
• Table B will group them into mainly 2 large clusters of such voters.
  

Table A: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
List of NON-BLANK large unique addresses with 15 or more voters, WITH a house number (NoRumah)

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
85	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	7
84	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	19
83	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11
82	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	3
74	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	9
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	6
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	12
72	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	14
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	2
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	16
70	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	1
69	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	29
66	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	4
65	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	20
62	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	17
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	18
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	24
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	15
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	31
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	8
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11A
55	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	5
54	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	10
53	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	25
49	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	27
48	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	22
46	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	37
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	23
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	30
44	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	33
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	35
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	43
40	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	28
39	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	21
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	26
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	40
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	42
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	49
37	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	7
36	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	32
35	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	34
35	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	3
34	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	39
34	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	51
32	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	45
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	11
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	14
29	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	36
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	2
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	10
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	17
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	41
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	48
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	1
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	16
27	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	5
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	15
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	21
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	4
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	8
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	13
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	38
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	51
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	52
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	62
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	6
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	22
23	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	50
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	9
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	55
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	44
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	54
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	61
22	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	12
21	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	64
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	26
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	28
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	55
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	59
20	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	19
19	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	47
19	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	47
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	27
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	33
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	45
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	60
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	68
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	20
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	49
16	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	56
16	014/25/17/004	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	1
15	014/25/09/003	Air Menideh	Jalan Nuri	4
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	24
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	31

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Table B contains the same data as Table A, but re-grouped by Kodlokaliti, so that similar addresses are clustered together.


Table B shows that:

• There are 2 clusters of houses where SPR recorded specific "house numbers" but failed to record or publish the "street name and numbers," such as "Jalan 1" or "Lorong 1".

Cluster 1: Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang

• There are 60 "big houses" in 014/25/04/007 (or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Bandar Baru/Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang) where ther are 15 or more voters "living in the same big houses,"
• It looks like street names, such as "Jalan 1" or "Lorong 1" are missing, lumping voters into big house numbers,

• This makes it difficult to verify the existence of these voters, and easy to commit election fraud with phantom voters.
  
• The voters in these 60 houses total 2,729 persons, and represents 65% of the 4,179 voters within this DM (014/25/04 or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Bandar Baru)
  
• There must be more cases below 15 voters in the same addresses, and the percentage of those who appear to live in "big houses" must be higher than 65%.
• These are not old "kampong" or village addresses, or apartments,
• They appear to be modern housing areas, judging from the name (Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang) and map of the neighbourhood on WikiMapia.org (see right).
• When we Google for "kedah 'taman bandar baru' lorong or jalan" we readily found specific examples of Lorong or Jalan names and numbers (eg, Lorong Jati) for this housing estate.

Our questions:

• Had SPR been negligent and not properly registering and publishing these voter's "Lorong/Jalan" names and numbers?
• Doesn't this make it difficult for election observers, even SPR itself, to verify the existence of these voters?
• Doesn't this make it easy for someone to commit election fraud and plant phantom voters?
  
• If SPR had strictly followed a voters' ICs (MyKad) because the ICs contain incomplete address, how can the National Registration Department be so careless about the full address?

Cluster 2: Taman Peruda

• Another cluster is 014/25/11/002 or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Taman Peruda/Taman Peruda
• There are 33 houses here that appear to house 15 or more voters each.
• When we Google for "kedah 'taman peruda' lorong or jalan" we readily found specific examples of Lorong or Jalan names and numbers (eg, Lorong 2) for this housing estate.

Table B: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
List of NON-BLANK large unique addresses with 15 or more voters, WITH a house number (NoRumah)
GROUPED BY KODLOKALITI AND HOUSE NUMBER

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
70	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	1
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	2
82	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	3
66	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	4
55	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	5
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	6
85	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	7
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	8
74	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	9
54	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	10
83	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11
73	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	12
72	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	14
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	15
71	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	16
62	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	17
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	18
84	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	19
65	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	20
39	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	21
48	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	22
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	23
58	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	24
53	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	25
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	26
49	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	27
40	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	28
69	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	29
45	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	30
57	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	31
36	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	32
44	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	33
35	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	34
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	35
29	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	36
46	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	37
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	38
34	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	39
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	40
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	41
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	42
42	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	43
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	44
32	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	45
19	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	47
28	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	48
37	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	49
23	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	50
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	51
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	52
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	54
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	55
16	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	56
20	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	59
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	60
22	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	61
24	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	62
21	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	64
17	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	68
56	014/25/04/007	Taman Bandar Baru	Taman Bandar Baru Sg Lalang	11A
15	014/25/09/003	Air Menideh	Jalan Nuri	4
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	1
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	2
35	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	3
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	4
27	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	5
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	6
37	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	7
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	8
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	9
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	10
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	11
22	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	12
25	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	13
30	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	14
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	15
28	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	16
29	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	17
20	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	19
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	20
26	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	21
24	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	22
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	24
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	26
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	27
21	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	28
15	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	31
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	33
18	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	45
19	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	47
17	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	49
34	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	51
23	014/25/11/002	Taman Peruda	Taman Peruda	55
16	014/25/17/004	Pekan Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	1

What can be done?

Use our phone camera to take photo of ICs with specific street name in these 2 clusters, to prove that SPR has not registered voters properly, or not publishing the information for voter verification.

Go here for more details about this suggestion.

In the above link, we suggest how field observers can verify whether these voters really do not have house numbers in the IC/MyKad. If so, then the pressure should be on NRIC to include these crucial information in ICs.
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Vague addresses - 20% without house numbers in Bukit Selambau

20% voters in Bukit Selambau are registered WITHOUT house numbers. The largest such address with blank house numbers has 339 voters. One DM has 90% voters WITHOUT house number.

SPR voter roll data are highly unspecific, making it difficult to verify voter existence, which leaves an opening for electoral frauds and the introduction of phantom voters:

1. This article will show that many voters are registered by SPR without recording their specific address house numbers (the situation even worse in Batang Air, to be discussed in a later article),
   
2. The next blog will show that, even when house numbers are registered, a large number of voters are registered without their specific street names (eg, Jalan 11) even in a modern housing estates, with the SPR recording only the name of the general housing area (eg, Taman Mewah).
   

This issue is similar to the "blank house number" issue discussed in:

• Bukit Gantang - 26% Without House Number
• 8,388 or 10% of KT Voters Have No NoRumah
• PP: 1,020 Voters Without House Number Highlights SPR Voter Registration Shortcomings

Table A shows that

• 20.4% of 35,140 voters, or 7,163, in Bukit Selambau (N25 of Kedah, under P014 Merbok) are registered on SPR voters roll without house number (NoRumah).

Table A: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Percentage of voters with blank NoRumah by DUN, excluding postal voters

parl/DUN/DM	NamaDUN	Count of voters without house number	Count of voters	Percent
014/25/15	Bukit Selambau	7,163	35,125	20.4%
Postal voters			15
All voters			35,140

Table B shows that, in Bukit Selambau,

• 12 localities or addresses have over 200 voters registered without house number (blank NoRumah data field).
  
• 6 of them have over 300 voters.
  
• An example is the 339 voters live in 014/25/03/003 but without house number, ie, Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Bukit Lembu/Ladang Sungai Getah/[blank house number]
• We have "cleaned up" the house number (NoRumah) data field, because SPR has been inconsistent with house number format, such as using "" blanks, "Null", "Nil", "Tiada", or "-" to represent the same thing.

Table B: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
List of voters in large unique addresses with BLANK HOUSE NUMBER (NoRumah), with 200 or more voters in one unique address without NoRumah

Voter count	parl/DUN /DM /lokaliti	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
339	014/25/03/003	Bukit Lembu	Ladang Sungai Getah
317	014/25/03/004	Bukit Lembu	Ladang Sungkap Para
315	014/25/01/002	Kuala Sin	Kampong Perak
312	014/25/03/001	Bukit Lembu	Ladang Bukit Lembu Kongsi Enam
307	014/25/01/001	Kuala Sin	Kg Kuala Sin
302	014/25/02/003	Kampung Sungkap	Kampong Sungkap
247	014/25/15/002	Petani Para	Ldg Patani Para Sg Patani
230	014/25/04/002	Taman Bandar Baru	Ladang Sg Tok Pawang Div 2
218	014/25/18/001	Kampung Pokok Machang	Kg Pokok Machang
216	014/25/16/002	Bukit Rusa	Selambau Div14 U P Est Sg Patani
215	014/25/20/002	Titi Panjang	Kg Pantai Chichar
212	014/25/16/001	Bukit Rusa	Bukit Rusa Estate

Table C shows that, in N25 Bukit Selambau of Kedah (under P014 Merbok):

• 5 out of 22 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting district) have more than 80% of voters registered WITHOUT house numbers (NoRumah),
• The highest rate is at 014/25/15 or Merbok/Bukit Selambau/Petani Para, with over 90% blank house numbers.
  
• 8/22 DMs have over half of voters registered without house numbers.

• In the next blog entry, we will see that even those DMs with low rate of blank house number are problematic!
• We will see that, for example, Taman Bandar Baru (014/25/04, more than 1/2) and Taman Peruda (014/25/11, more than 1/3 voters) contain a large number of voters registered with house number, but without specific street names (eg Jalan 1)!
  

• So SPR has published voter roll that despite looking good in table C below, is making voters difficult to trace and verify (see next blog entry).
  

Table C: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election
Percentage of voters with blank NoRumah by DM
Arranged by PERCENTAGES

parl/DUN /DM	NamaDUN	N25 Bukit Selambau NamaDM	Count of voters without house number	Count of voters	Percent
014/25/15	Bukit Selambau	Petani Para	324	359	90.3%
014/25/18	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Pokok Machang	599	696	86.1%
014/25/19	Bukit Selambau	Batu Belachan	657	785	83.7%
014/25/02	Bukit Selambau	Kampung Sungkap	496	600	82.7%
014/25/03	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Lembu	993	1,223	81.2%
014/25/01	Bukit Selambau	Kuala Sin	646	831	77.7%
014/25/20	Bukit Selambau	Titi Panjang	796	1,058	75.2%
014/25/16	Bukit Selambau	Bukit Rusa	451	667	67.6%
014/25/17	Bukit Selambau	Pekan Bukit Selambau	625	1,986	31.5%
014/25/14	Bukit Selambau	United Petani	196	973	20.1%
014/25/05	Bukit Selambau	Sungai Lalang	355	1,986	17.9%
014/25/07	Bukit Selambau	Bandar Laguna Merbok	117	971	12.0%
014/25/10	Bukit Selambau	Jalan Badlishah	94	796	11.8%
014/25/06	Bukit Selambau	Taman Desa Aman	206	2,514	8.2%
014/25/04	Bukit Selambau	Taman Bandar Baru	284	4,179	6.8%
014/25/09	Bukit Selambau	Air Menideh	90	1,695	5.3%
014/25/21	Bukit Selambau	Ambangan Height	28	647	4.3%
014/25/11	Bukit Selambau	Taman Peruda	54	1,936	2.8%
014/25/08	Bukit Selambau	Tasek Apong	27	1,363	2.0%
014/25/13	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Jaya	87	5,122	1.7%
014/25/12	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Utara	20	2,244	0.9%
014/25/22	Bukit Selambau	Taman Ria Selatan	18	2,494	0.7%
Total	Excluding postal		7,163	35,125	20.4%

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Bukit Selambau - 15 centenerians among awakened young voters

N25 Bukit Selambau of P059 Merbok has 15 voters of age 100 or more, and 63 voters of age 90-99. More than 1/4 of voters are of age 40-49. The most noticeable slice is the large 16% of voters in the 21-29 age range, compared to 8% in Batang Air and 13% in Bukit Gantang.

Table A shows that:

• Bukit Selambau's voters has increased by 163 between end of 2007Q4 (voters roll gazetted 2008 Feb 5 for GE12) and end of 2008Q3 (this by-election roll),
• Most of the increase came from the youngest slice of voters, aged 20-29, with an increase of 289 voters or 5%,
• During the period, SPR deleted 4, 10, and 40 voters from the 100+, 90-99, and 80-89 age groups, respectively.
• The 40-49 year-olds make up the largest group at 26.5% of voters, followed by the 30-39 year-olds at 22.8%.
  

Table A: P059 Bukit Gantang Voters by Age Groups - Comparison with Earlier Electoral Roll

			GE12	By-Election				GE12	By-Election
Age	Tahunlahir	Tahunlahir	Gazetted	Gazetted				Percentage	Percentage
Group	From	To	20080205	20090219?	Change	Change %		20080205	20090219?
21-29	1979	1987	5,480	5,769	289	5.3%		15.7%	16.4%
30-39	1969	1978	7,898	7,997	99	1.3%		22.6%	22.8%
40-49	1959	1968	9,333	9,326	(7)	-0.1%		26.7%	26.5%
50-59	1949	1958	7,364	7,341	(23)	-0.3%		21.1%	20.9%
60-69	1939	1948	2,875	2,811	(64)	-2.2%		8.2%	8.0%
70-79	1929	1938	1,504	1,427	(77)	-5.1%		4.3%	4.1%
80-89	1919	1928	431	391	(40)	-9.3%		1.2%	1.1%
90-99	1909	1918	73	63	(10)	-13.7%		0.2%	0.2%
100+	1884	1908	19	15	(4)	-21.1%		0.1%	0.0%
Total			34,977	35,140	163	0.5%		100.0%	100.0%

Separately, we have vote details that show:

• The oldest voters were born in 1883 (1 person), 1901 (2), and 1902 (2), all having the new 12-digit IC numbers.
• Many of the older voters have addresses in the rubber estates, which may have made it difficult for SPR to track them down. They have addresses such as Thye Seng Estate, Ladang Sg Tok Pawang Div 2, Ladang United Petani, etc.
  

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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:

1. Adding places to Bukit Selambau in Wikimapia (WikiMapia.org map view of Bukit Selambau and satellite-map-hybrid view). Zoom in and out, and switch between map, satellite, and hybrid views to find the places.
2. Entering the full name of the school or voting station using the full name in the above table, so that others can search for them easily.
3. Leaving the name and WikiMapia URL you have created in the comment box below, we will link to them.

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

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Understanding P014N25 - Bukit Selambau State Seat, Kedah

Where is the P014 N25 state seat Bukit Selambau? What do the maps look like? How many postal and non-postal voters are there now? How have voters there voted?

Foothill rubber plantations

Bukit Selambau (N25 ) is one of two state assembly seats under the Merbok parliamentary seat (P014) in southern Kedah. Bukit Selambau is located east of the coastal highway No.1, and east of the old rail road and two golf courses. It is is northeast of Sungai Petani, hence has a couple of industrial areas to its south. See Wikimapia.org map of highways.

Bukit Selambau is centered on a low hill east of Gunung Jerai and west of middle-section of Sungai Muda (where it runs north-south), which itself skirts the west of the Malaysian-Thai border mountain range.

Bukit Selambau's slopes and proximity to railroad and its northwest-peninsula's drier seasons historically made it a rubber plantation area with large ethnic Indian descendant population of rubber plantation labourer. This background is reflected in many locality names, and the non-specific voter addresses without house numbers, an issue we will discuss in later blog entries. See WikiMapia.org satellite + highway map hybrid.

The two maps on the right show the state assembly and parliamentary seats in Kedah state. Source is http://undi.info.


Table A below shows that:

• N25 Bukit Selambau is a state-assembly-level (DUN) constituency, as opposed to the other parliamentary seat of Bukit Gantang in Perak (with 3 DUNs).
• Bukit Selambau is a large one for a state-level seat, with 35,125 voters. In contrast, the largest DUN in Bukit Gantang has only nearly 25 thousand voters . Sarawak's Batang Air DUN by-election will involve only about 8 thousand voters.
• There are 22 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting districts).
• There are 22 TMs (Tempat Mengundi, voting stations), which means there are no sharing of voting stations across voting districts. This also means NGOs need to send at least 22 observers to just cover each voting station with one person.
• There are 64 voting streams, typically a voting classroom.

• Not shown in the table: Of the 15 postal voters, 10 are police personnel in 2 police stations. Five are absentee voters currently not living locally.
  

Table A: P014 Merbok N25 Bukit Selambau 200902 By-Election

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

To view voting history, candidate names, and racial breakdown, please see Undi.info at:

• N27 Bukit Selambu http://undi.info/ax/state/kd/2008/states/N25/P14.html
• P014 Merbok http://undi.info/ax/state/kd/2008/parliament/P14.html

Table B: Voting History in P014's N27 Bukit Selambu

2008 KEDAH: N25 - Bukit Selambau			Voters: 34,977
Party	Candidate	Votes	Majority
MIC	S Krishnan	10863
IND	V Arumugam	13225	2,362
Racial Breakdown
Malay: 50.20%, Chinese: 19.30%, Indian: 29.50%, Others: 1.00%
2004 KEDAH: N25 - Bukit Selambau			Voters: 30,322
Party	Candidate	Votes	Majority
MIC	Datuk V Saravanan	14196	7,695
PKR	Mustafa Khalid Hanafi	6501
DAP	G Ghanagaru a/l Ganisan	2120
Racial Breakdown
Malay: 48.3%, Chinese: 22.0%, Indian: 28.8%, Others: 0.8%
State Seats / Polling Districts
Kuala Sin, Kampong Sungkap, Bukit Lembu, Kongsi Enam, Sungai Lallang Luar, Sungai Lallang Utara, Bandar Laguna Merbok, Tasek Apong, Ayer Menideh, Jalan Badlishah, Taman Peruda, Taman Ria, Taman Ria Jaya, United Petani, Petani Para, Bukit Rusa, Pekan Bukit Selambau, Kampong Pokok Machang, Batu Belachan, Titi Panjang,

Source: http://undi.info
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