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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Bukit Gantang - 70 Houses with 15 or More Voters

SPR appears to have discarded or hidden information about voters's street names. In Bukit Gantang, 70 "big houses" have 15 or more voters, registered with specific house numbers but many without street names. Two clusters stand out. There are 31 such houses in Changkat Jering/Larut Tin/Taman Sungai Mas. Another 20 such houses are located in Kuala Sapetang/Kamunting Station/Taman Mewah. We make some suggestions about how observers can document possible SPR negligence with camera phones.

The last blog entry was about addresses WITHOUT house numbers, but with many voters (over 200); such non-specific addresses tend to have very large number of voters.

This blog entry is about localities WITH house number but also many voters (over 15 voters in one house). These 70 "big houses" contain two clusters of houses in modern-sounding housing estates, which we will highlight in Tables B and C. It appears their street names (eg, Jalan 11) are missing, even though they look like modern housing estates (not old kampong) from their names and satellite maps.

Table A gives an overview that:

• In Bukit Gantang, 70 houses, with specific house numbers, appear to have 15 or more voters "living" in these "big" houses.
• 7 of these are registered with 30 or more voters.
  
• A possible explanation: SPR may not have properly registered these voters with their "Jalan" or "Lorong" name and numbers.
• Separately, SPR has not been consistent with the formats of house numbering. We have had to consolidate and clean up house number variations such as: A39, A 39, A-39, and NO A39 in 059/13/06/001 or Bukit Gantang / Kuala Sapetang / Kampong Menteri /Kampong Mentri Kuala Sapetang.
  

Table A: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election List of voters in large unique addresses with 15 or more voters, WITH a house number (NoRumah)
E.g., 34 voters live in 059/14/06/005 WITH house number 7

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	P059 Bukit Gantang NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
34	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	7
32	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	26
31	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	17
31	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	6
31	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	10
30	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	14
30	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	18
29	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	2
29	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	3
29	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	5
28	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	2
28	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	15
27	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	9
27	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	12
27	059/14/07/003	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	Kampong Ayer Kuning P Aor	50
26	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	21
26	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	3
26	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	19
25	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	11
25	059/14/03/001	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	Simpang New Village	120
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	33
24	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	4
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	42
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	1
24	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	10
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	26
23	059/14/07/003	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	Kampong Ayer Kuning P Aor	64
23	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	8
23	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	5
22	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	28
21	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	13
21	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	16
21	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	9
21	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	32
21	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	12
20	059/14/03/001	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	Simpang New Village	110
20	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	22
20	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	28
20	059/13/05/009	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang	Riverside Kuala Sapetang	91
19	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	1
19	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	6
19	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	23
19	059/14/01/025	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor	Kampong Benggali	36
19	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	8
18	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	4
18	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	20
18	059/13/05/003	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang	Seberang Kuala Sapetang	109
18	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	15
18	059/14/07/003	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	Kampong Ayer Kuning P Aor	143A
18	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	24
17	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	21
17	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	30
17	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	33
17	059/14/03/001	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	Simpang New Village	164
17	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	27
16	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	25
16	059/13/05/009	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang	Riverside Kuala Sapetang	157
16	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	11
16	059/15/11/003	Trong	Sungai Tinggi	Kampong Sungai Tinggi	127
16	059/13/03/005	Kuala Sapetang	Simpang Halt	Taman Kota Jaya	674
16	059/14/03/001	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	Simpang New Village	126
15	059/13/01/008	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Kg Rahmat	LOT15
15	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	20
15	059/14/08/024	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering L C Area	11
15	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	31
15	059/13/09/012	Kuala Sapetang	Jalan Mangala	Telok Kertang Matang	19
15	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	31
15	059/14/05/001	Changkat Jering	Kawasan J.K.R	Batu 2 1/2 Simpang Road	511
15	059/13/03/003	Kuala Sapetang	Simpang Halt	Simpang Halt	57
15	059/13/06/001	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Menteri	Kampong Mentri Kuala Sapetang	A39

Cluster 1: Taman Sungai Mas.

Table B shows that:

• A cluster of 31 houses with specific house numbers (NoRumah) are registered with 15 or voters living in them!
  
• They are all located at locality code (Kodlokaliti) 059/14/06/005, ie, P059 Bukit Gantang's Changkat Jering (N14), in Larut Tin DM, and in Taman Sungai Mas.
• For example:
  
• 24 voters are registered at house number 1, at Changkat Jering/Larut Tin/Taman Sungai Mas
• 29 voters are registered at house number 2, at Changkat Jering/Larut Tin/Taman Sungai Mas
• 26 voters are registered at house number 3, at Changkat Jering/Larut Tin/Taman Sungai Mas
• etc
  

• Our guesses:
  
• This address looks like a modern housing estate, hence should have had their house numbers registered.
  
• Their "Lorong" or "Jalan" names and numbers appear to be missing.
• When we search Google for "perak 'taman sungai mas' lorong or jalan" we readily found specific examples of Lorong or Jalan names and numbers (eg, Jalan 11) for this housing estate.
  

• The housing estate appears to be located here in WikiMapia.org map.
• They don't look like long houses,
• They don't look like traditional kampong address,
• They don't look like rural residents who have to go to post office to pick up mail,
• They don't look like high-rise apartments (which in any case are new buildings that should have been registered with the proper "block" numbers).

• Our question: Had SPR been negligent and not properly registering and publishing these voter's "Lorong/Jalan" names and numbers?
  

• 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?

Table B: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Large addresses (with house numbers) in 059/14/06/005 or Changkat Jering / Larut Tin / Taman Sungai Mas

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	P059 Bukit Gantang NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	1
29	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	2
26	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	3
18	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	4
29	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	5
31	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	6
34	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	7
23	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	8
27	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	9
31	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	10
25	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	11
27	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	12
30	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	14
28	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	15
21	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	16
31	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	17
30	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	18
26	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	19
18	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	20
26	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	21
20	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	22
19	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	23
18	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	24
16	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	25
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	26
20	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	28
17	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	30
15	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	31
21	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	32
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	33
24	059/14/06/005	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Taman Sungai Mas	42

How to check possible SPR negligence in registering voter house number?

• Let's check voter IC's addresses against SPR's voter roll info for Taman Sungai Mas (Table B) and Taman Mewah (Table C)!
• Specific individual voter details as published by SPR are available for field checking at these 2 places.

• If we can document that these voters' ICs contain the house number BUT SPR's data do not, there would be a major case to be made and presented to the MPs and media to make SPR improve the voter's roll, even without asking for laws to be changed.

• To make such a case if any, observers should get photocopy/ phone-photo of voters who
• are registered WITHOUT NoRumah or locality details,
  
• BUT do have such details in the ICs.

• Camera phone would be an advantage, because of these reasons:
• they are handy for taking pictures; they can store a few dozen, and pictures can be sent directly or downloaded to PC, email, and blog sites (with some details blurred out to protect privacy).
  
• voters may be more comfortable with camera phone, because not looking like photocopy, camera pictures can be made to avoid forgery cases. Photo taker can make sure of this with someone holding the MyKad with a thumb, and include the thumb/finger inside the photo.

• If observer obtains photocopy of IC, the observers should cross-out the copy with double lines, then write the purpose in the blank space in the center. An experienced Streamyx distributor had suggested that IC copies be crossed out in this way in service applications, such as for Streamyx services. We should then write in the center of the IC copy, in the blank space, eg, "For Streamyx only." This is to enssure that the IC photocopy would be more difficult to be misused.

Cluster 2: Taman Mewah.

The story in Table C is similar to Table B:

• A cluster of 20 houses with specific house numbers (NoRumah) are registered with 15 or voters living in them!
  
• They are all located at locality code (Kodlokaliti) 059/13/01/011, ie, P059 Bukit Gantang's Kuala Sapetang (N13), in Kamunting Station DM, and in Taman Mewah.
• For example:
  
• 19 voters are registered at house number 1, at Kuala Sapetang/Kamunting Station/Taman Mewah
• 28 voters are registered at house number 2, at Kuala Sapetang/Kamunting Station/Taman Mewah
• 29 voters are registered at house number 3, at Kuala Sapetang/Kamunting Station/Taman Mewah

• Their "Lorong" or "Jalan" names and numbers appear to be missing.
• When we google for "perak 'taman mewah' lorong or jalan" we readily found specific examples of "Lorong/Jalan" names and numbers (eg, Lorong Mewah 19) for addresses in this locality.

• The housing estate appears to be located here in WikiMapia.org map.

Table C: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Large addresses (with house numbers) in 059/13/01/011 or Kuala Sapetang / Kamunting Station / Taman Mewah

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	P059 Bukit Gantang NamaDUN	NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
19	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	1
28	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	2
29	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	3
24	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	4
23	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	5
19	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	6
19	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	8
21	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	9
24	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	10
16	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	11
21	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	12
21	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	13
18	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	15
15	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	20
17	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	21
32	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	26
17	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	27
22	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	28
15	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	31
17	059/13/01/011	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Taman Mewah	33

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Bukit Gantang - 26% Without House Number

26% of voters in P059 Bukit Gantang are registered without specific house number. The Trong DUN has 50% voters without house number, and its Batu Hampar DM up to 90%. The three largest addresses without house number have 449, 424, and 407 registered voters.

Table A shows that:

• Overall, in the parliamentary constituency of P059 Bukit Gantang, 26.1% or 14,480 out of 55,426 voters, are registered WITHOUT specific address (ie, blank house number).
  
• An example is 059/15/10/002 or Batu Gantang / Trong / Permatang Raja / Kampong Permatang Raja, with 449 registered voters, where the "NoRumah" data field is left blank.
• The small Trong DM has 50.7%, the highest rate of blank-house-number voters.
• Changkat Jering DM has the lowest rate, but still at 15.4%.
• In our analysis, we have cleaned up inconsistent addressing in SPR registration, treating "-" etc as "blank." We have exclude postal voters.
  

Table A: P059 Bukit Gantang 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
059/13	Kuala Sapetang	5,192	19,722	26.3%
059/14	Changkat Jering	3,836	24,961	15.4%
059/15	Trong	5,452	10,743	50.7%
Total		14,480	55,426	26.1%
Postal voters			136
All voters			55,562

Table B shows:

• The 14 largest unique addresses or locality WITHOUT specific house numbers.
• We include only such non-specific addresses with 200 or more voters.
  
• More specific addresses are available to field observers.
• The three largest such addresses are registered with 449, 424, and 407 voters respectively
• Noticeably, the Trong DUN with the highest rate of blank-house-number addresses do not have many cases shown in this table, probably because Trong has smaller DMs and spread-out subdivisions (more "atomized") . For example, the 3 largest DMs in Trong contain 1843, 1311, and 999 voters, compared to the 3 largest DMs in Kuala Sapetang with 3351, 2945, and 2586 voters.
  

Table B: P059 Bukit Gantang 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
E.g., 449 voters live in 059/15/10/002 without house number, ie, Bukit Gantang>Trong>Permatang Raja>Kampong Permatang Raja>[blank house number]

Voter count	parl/DUN/DM/lokaliti	NamaDUN	P059 Bukit Gantang NamaDM	NamaLokaliti	NoRumah Cleaned
449	059/15/10/002	Trong	Permatang Raja	Kampong Permatang Raja
424	059/14/07/003	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	Kampong Ayer Kuning P Aor
407	059/15/11/003	Trong	Sungai Tinggi	Kampong Sungai Tinggi
351	059/13/12/001	Kuala Sapetang	Bendang Siam	Batu 8 Trong Rd Bukit Gantang
338	059/15/11/004	Trong	Sungai Tinggi	Sungai Kerang
312	059/13/13/003	Kuala Sapetang	Changkat Ibol	Kg Sendok
307	059/13/03/003	Kuala Sapetang	Simpang Halt	Simpang Halt
299	059/13/13/001	Kuala Sapetang	Changkat Ibol	Changkat Ibol Bt Gantang
297	059/14/11/006	Changkat Jering	Kampong Cheh	Kampong Cheh
261	059/15/13/002	Trong	Batu Hampar	Batu Hampar
234	059/13/01/005	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Kg Paya Baru
209	059/13/13/004	Kuala Sapetang	Changkat Ibol	Kg Sungei Petai Bkt Gantang
202	059/13/02/002	Kuala Sapetang	Ayer Puteh	Kg Ayer Puteh
200	059/15/01/002	Trong	Kuala Trong	Kuala Trong

Table C shows:

• all 38 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting districts) in Bukit Gantang and their number of voters registered with non-specific address, ie, WITHOUT house number (blank NoRumah data field).
• It shows that 059/15/13 or Bukit Gantang/Trong/Batu Hampar has the highest rate of 89.8%, or 589 out of 656 voters
  
• Trong is rural and has smaller DMs in general.
  

• It shows 11/38 DMs have blank-house-number rate of over 50%.
• It shows only 7/38 DMs have blank-house-number rate of less than 10%.
• The lowest rate is 059/14/03 or Bukit Gantang/Changkat Jering/Simpang Baru, with 0.9%, or 11 out of 1,266 voters without house number.
  
• A cluster of Changkat Jering DMs have specific addresses near the bottom of this table.
  

Table C: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Percentage of voters with blank NoRumah by DM, excluding postal voters
Arranged by PERCENTAGES

parl/DUN/DM	NamaDUN	P059 Bukit Gantang NamaDM	Count of voters without house number	Count of voters	Percent
059/15/13	Trong	Batu Hampar	589	656	89.8%
059/14/11	Changkat Jering	Kampong Cheh	931	1,356	68.7%
059/15/06	Trong	Bukit Gantang Selatan	608	903	67.3%
059/15/12	Trong	Padang Gajah	534	881	60.6%
059/15/04	Trong	Trong	316	563	56.1%
059/15/10	Trong	Permatang Raja	553	999	55.4%
059/15/11	Trong	Sungai Tinggi	1,012	1,843	54.9%
059/15/03	Trong	Kampong Tebok Trong	299	545	54.9%
059/13/12	Kuala Sapetang	Bendang Siam	691	1,273	54.3%
059/13/02	Kuala Sapetang	Ayer Puteh	395	730	54.1%
059/13/10	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Jaha	166	308	53.9%
059/13/07	Kuala Sapetang	Matang Gelugor	192	387	49.6%
059/13/13	Kuala Sapetang	Changkat Ibol	1,026	2,175	47.2%
059/15/14	Trong	Sungai Rotan	142	303	46.9%
059/15/08	Trong	Temelok	600	1,311	45.8%
059/13/04	Kuala Sapetang	Jebong	816	1,801	45.3%
059/15/09	Trong	Sungai Che Rahmat	136	303	44.9%
059/15/01	Trong	Kuala Trong	307	722	42.5%
059/13/11	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Mati	317	761	41.7%
059/13/08	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Limau	166	460	36.1%
059/15/07	Trong	Ayer Terjun	170	498	34.1%
059/14/10	Changkat Jering	Bukit Gantang	585	1,781	32.8%
059/14/09	Changkat Jering	Jelutong	312	958	32.6%
059/14/08	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering	550	2,393	23.0%
059/14/07	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	533	2,605	20.5%
059/15/02	Trong	Pasir Hitam Trong	61	316	19.3%
059/13/03	Kuala Sapetang	Simpang Halt	492	2,586	19.0%
059/13/01	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	440	2,945	14.9%
059/15/05	Trong	Trong Barat	125	900	13.9%
059/13/06	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Menteri	197	1,448	13.6%
059/13/09	Kuala Sapetang	Jalan Mangala	189	1,497	12.6%
059/14/02	Changkat Jering	Simpang Lama	177	2,146	8.2%
059/14/01	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor	272	3,305	8.2%
059/14/05	Changkat Jering	Kawasan J.K.R	265	3,236	8.2%
059/14/06	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	102	2,935	3.5%
059/14/04	Changkat Jering	Jalan Simpang	98	2,980	3.3%
059/13/05	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang	105	3,351	3.1%
059/14/03	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	11	1,266	0.9%
Total	Excluding postal		14,480	55,426	26.1%

Table D has similar data as Table B. Only that Table C data are grouped by DUNs. It shows:

• smaller DMs tend to have higher rate of voters registered WITHOUT house number.
• Trong has the most number of small DMs, and also the highest rate of such non-specific addresses.
• Changkat Jering DUN has the lowest such rate, except Kampong Cheh (059/14/11).
• Kuala Sapetang DUN has very mixed rates of high and low rate of non-specific addresses (blank house number).
  

Table D: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Percentage of voters with blank NoRumah by DM, excluding postal voters
Arranged by DUN>DM

parl/DUN/DM	NamaDUN	P059 Bukit Gantang NamaDM	Count of voters without house number	Count of voters	Percent
059/13/01	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	440	2,945	14.9%
059/13/02	Kuala Sapetang	Ayer Puteh	395	730	54.1%
059/13/03	Kuala Sapetang	Simpang Halt	492	2,586	19.0%
059/13/04	Kuala Sapetang	Jebong	816	1,801	45.3%
059/13/05	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang	105	3,351	3.1%
059/13/06	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Menteri	197	1,448	13.6%
059/13/07	Kuala Sapetang	Matang Gelugor	192	387	49.6%
059/13/08	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Limau	166	460	36.1%
059/13/09	Kuala Sapetang	Jalan Mangala	189	1,497	12.6%
059/13/10	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Jaha	166	308	53.9%
059/13/11	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Mati	317	761	41.7%
059/13/12	Kuala Sapetang	Bendang Siam	691	1,273	54.3%
059/13/13	Kuala Sapetang	Changkat Ibol	1,026	2,175	47.2%
059/14/01	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor	272	3,305	8.2%
059/14/02	Changkat Jering	Simpang Lama	177	2,146	8.2%
059/14/03	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	11	1,266	0.9%
059/14/04	Changkat Jering	Jalan Simpang	98	2,980	3.3%
059/14/05	Changkat Jering	Kawasan J.K.R	265	3,236	8.2%
059/14/06	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	102	2,935	3.5%
059/14/07	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	533	2,605	20.5%
059/14/08	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering	550	2,393	23.0%
059/14/09	Changkat Jering	Jelutong	312	958	32.6%
059/14/10	Changkat Jering	Bukit Gantang	585	1,781	32.8%
059/14/11	Changkat Jering	Kampong Cheh	931	1,356	68.7%
059/15/01	Trong	Kuala Trong	307	722	42.5%
059/15/02	Trong	Pasir Hitam Trong	61	316	19.3%
059/15/03	Trong	Kampong Tebok Trong	299	545	54.9%
059/15/04	Trong	Trong	316	563	56.1%
059/15/05	Trong	Trong Barat	125	900	13.9%
059/15/06	Trong	Bukit Gantang Selatan	608	903	67.3%
059/15/07	Trong	Ayer Terjun	170	498	34.1%
059/15/08	Trong	Temelok	600	1,311	45.8%
059/15/09	Trong	Sungai Che Rahmat	136	303	44.9%
059/15/10	Trong	Permatang Raja	553	999	55.4%
059/15/11	Trong	Sungai Tinggi	1,012	1,843	54.9%
059/15/12	Trong	Padang Gajah	534	881	60.6%
059/15/13	Trong	Batu Hampar	589	656	89.8%
059/15/14	Trong	Sungai Rotan	142	303	46.9%
Total	Excluding postal		14,480	55,426	26.1%
Max			1,026	3,351	89.8%
Min			11	303	0.9%

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Bukit Gantang - A Dozen Centenerians

About 1/4 of voters in P059 Bukit Gantang are aged 40-49. Bukit Gantang still contains 12 voters over 100 years old, after the SPR aggressively deleted 31 in the past year.

Table A shows that :

• most of the voters in rural Bukit Gantang are aged 30-59, totaling 67% or two-third.
• The largest group is 40-49 year-old, totaling 24.2%.
• In the past year, SPR aggressively deleted voters who are 100 years or older from the electoral roll, reducing the number from 43 to 12. The remaining ones are likely those whose documentations are difficult to trace.
  
• SPR deleted 27 voters in the 90-99 year age group, leaving 168 on the list.
  

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	6,477	7,056	579	8.9%		11.7%	12.7%
30-39	1969	1978	11,820	11,931	111	0.9%		21.3%	21.5%
40-49	1959	1968	13,424	13,442	18	0.1%		24.2%	24.2%
50-59	1949	1958	11,937	11,847	(90)	-0.8%		21.5%	21.3%
60-69	1939	1948	6,749	6,603	(146)	-2.2%		12.2%	11.9%
70-79	1929	1938	3,643	3,446	(197)	-5.4%		6.6%	6.2%
80-89	1919	1928	1,183	1,057	(126)	-10.7%		2.1%	1.9%
90-99	1909	1918	195	168	(27)	-13.8%		0.4%	0.3%
100+	1884	1908	43	12	(31)	-72.1%		0.1%	0.0%
Total			55,471	55,562	91	0.2%		100.0%	100.0%

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P059 Bukit Gantang - Voting Stations, Streams and Postal Voters

Where do voters vote in Bukit Gantang? How many voting stations are there and how many voters and voting streams in each?

Table A shows that:

• There are three DUNs under P059 Bukit Gantang
• There are 38 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting district) all together
• Some of the DMs share the same TMs (Tempat Mengundi, voting station), so there are 32 TMs
• There are 13DM and 11 TMs in Kuala Sapetang (N13), and 40 salurants (voting streams)
  
• There are 11DM and 10 TMs in Changkat Jering (N14), and 47 salurants
• There are 14DM and 11 TMs in Trong (N15), and 24 salurants
• Trong DUN has the fewest voters at 10,743.
• Total non-postal voter counti s 55,426.
• Postal voters total 136
  

Table A: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Summary Count of DUN, DM, TM, Saluran, Voters, Grouped By DUN

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	DM count	TM count	Saluran count	Voter count
059/13	Kuala Sapetang	13	11	40	19,722
059/14	Changkat Jering	11	10	47	24,961
059/15	Trong	14	11	24	10,743
Count - nonpostal	3	38	32	111	55,426
Postal voters					136
Total including postal voters					55,562

Table B shows:

• How many saluran and voters are in each TM.
• It also shows which DMs share the the same TM.

• For example, 059/13/01 or Batu Gantang/Kuala Sapetang/Kamunting Station uses the school "Sekolah Kebangsaan Ayer Puteh" as a voting station, and occupies 5 salurans (usually meaning 5 classrooms). Total number of voters in these 5 saluran is 2,945
• However, 059/13/02 or Batu Gantang/Kuala Sapetang/Ayer Puteh also uses the same school as voting station, and occupies another 2 salurans. Total number of voters in these 2 saluran is 730.
• In total, these 2 DMs contain 3,675 voters, which makes this school a rather crowded place on by-election day.
  

Table B: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Non-Postal Voters By DM, with Info on TM/Saluran/Voter Count. Note some DMs share the same TMs.

Parl/ DUN/DM	NamaDUN	NamaDM	TM (Red text: TM shared by DMs)	Saluran Count	Voter Count	subtotal in shared TM
059/13/01	Kuala Sapetang	Kamunting Station	Sekolah Kebangsaan Ayer Puteh	5	2,945
059/13/02	Kuala Sapetang	Ayer Puteh	Sekolah Kebangsaan Ayer Puteh	2	730	3,675
059/13/03	Kuala Sapetang	Simpang Halt	Sekolah Kebangsaan Simpang	5	2,586
059/13/04	Kuala Sapetang	Jebong	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Khea Wah Matang	4	1,801
059/13/05	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Poay Eng, Kuala Sepetang	6	3,351
059/13/06	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Menteri	Sekolah Kebangsaan Laksamana, Kuala Sepetang	3	1,448
059/13/07	Kuala Sapetang	Matang Gelugor	Sekolah Kebangsaan Matang Gelugor	1	387
059/13/08	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Limau	Sekolah Kebangsaan Matang Gelugor	1	460	847
059/13/09	Kuala Sapetang	Jalan Mangala	Sekolah Kebangsaan Matang	3	1,497
059/13/10	Kuala Sapetang	Kampong Jaha	Dewan Orang Ramai Kampong Jaha	1	308
059/13/11	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Mati	Madrasah Aziziah Sungai Mati	2	761
059/13/12	Kuala Sapetang	Bendang Siam	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Dato` Wan Ahmad Rasdi	3	1,273
059/13/13	Kuala Sapetang	Changkat Ibol	Sekolah Kebangsaan Changkat Ibol	4	2,175
Subtotal				40	19,722
059/14/01	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Simpang	6	3,305
059/14/02	Changkat Jering	Simpang Lama	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Sin Min Simpang	4	2,146
059/14/03	Changkat Jering	Simpang Baru	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Sin Min Simpang	3	1,266	3,412
059/14/04	Changkat Jering	Jalan Simpang	Sekolah Agama Rakyat Al-Irshadiah Taman Kaya	5	2,980
059/14/05	Changkat Jering	Kawasan J.K.R	Sekolah Kebangsaan Pengkalan Aor,Taiping	6	3,236
059/14/06	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin	Sekolah Agama Rakyat Alkhairiah Addiniah Larut Tin	5	2,935
059/14/07	Changkat Jering	Ayer Kuning	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Pengkalan Aur, Air Kuning	5	2,605
059/14/08	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering	Sekolah Kebangsaan Changkat Jering	4	2,393
059/14/09	Changkat Jering	Jelutong	Sekolah Kebangsaan Jelutong	2	958
059/14/10	Changkat Jering	Bukit Gantang	Sekolah Kebangsaan Dato` Panglima Bukit Gantang	4	1,781
059/14/11	Changkat Jering	Kampong Cheh	Sekolah Kebangsaan Sultan Abdullah Kampong Cheh	3	1,356
Subtotal				47	24,961
059/15/01	Trong	Kuala Trong	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Siu Sin Trong	2	722
059/15/02	Trong	Pasir Hitam Trong	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Aik Hua Pasir Hitam	1	316
059/15/03	Trong	Kampong Tebok Trong	Dewan Orang Ramai Kampong Tebok Trong	1	545
059/15/04	Trong	Trong	Sekolah Kebangsaan Toh Johan Trong	1	563
059/15/05	Trong	Trong Barat	Sekolah Kebangsaan Toh Johan Trong	2	900
059/15/06	Trong	Bukit Gantang Selatan	Sekolah Kebangsaan Toh Johan Trong	2	903	2,366
059/15/07	Trong	Ayer Terjun	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Ngai Seng Ayer Terjun	1	498
059/15/08	Trong	Temelok	Sekolah Kebangsaan Temelok	3	1,311
059/15/09	Trong	Sungai Che Rahmat	Sekolah Kebangsaan Permatang Raja	1	303
059/15/10	Trong	Permatang Raja	Sekolah Kebangsaan Permatang Raja	2	999	1,302
059/15/11	Trong	Sungai Tinggi	Sekolah Kebangsaan Sungai Tinggi Trong	4	1,843
059/15/12	Trong	Padang Gajah	Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Gajah	2	881
059/15/13	Trong	Batu Hampar	Sekolah Kebangsaan Batu Hampar	1	656
059/15/14	Trong	Sungai Rotan	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Sungai Rotan	1	303
Subtotal				24	10,743
Total				111	55,426

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Tables C and D show that postal voters are not a big issue:

• there are only 128 police voters in this large area,
• there are only 8 absentee voters in this large area.
• This is unlike Kuala Terengganu where there is a large pool of FRU and police contingency units, or Lumut with large navy postal voters.
  

Table C: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL Voters By Localities
POLICE voters only

Parl/DUN/DM/Lokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM		NamaLokaliti	TM	Voter Count
059/13/05/701	Kuala Sapetang	Kuala Sapetang		Balai Polis Kuala Sapetang	Pos	31
059/14/01/701	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor		Balai Polis Simpang	Pos	28
059/14/08/701	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering		Balai Polis Changkat Jering	Pos	16
059/15/02/701	Trong	Pasir Hitam Trong		Balai Polis Pasir Hitam	Pos	9
059/15/05/701	Trong	Trong Barat		Balai Polis Trong	Pos	24
059/15/12/701	Trong	Padang Gajah		Balai Polis Padang Gajah	Pos	20
Subtotal						128

Table C: P059 Bukit Gantang 200902 By-Election
Count POSTAL Voters By Localities
Absentee, non-police, postal voters

Parl/DUN/DM/Lokaliti	NamaDUN	NamaDM		NamaLokaliti	TM	Voter Count
059/13/11/801	Kuala Sapetang	Sungai Mati		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
059/14/01/801	Changkat Jering	Pengkalan Aor		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	2
059/14/02/801	Changkat Jering	Simpang Lama		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	2
059/14/04/801	Changkat Jering	Jalan Simpang		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
059/14/06/801	Changkat Jering	Larut Tin		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
059/14/08/801	Changkat Jering	Changkat Jering		Pemilih Tak Hadir	Pos	1
Subtotal						8

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Understanding P203 N29 - Batang Air State Seat of Lubok Antu, Sarawak

Where is the P203 N29 state seat Batang Air on the map? How big is it? How many voters are there? How have they voted previously? Isn't Malaysia's largest hydroelectric dam called Batang Ai Dam?

Batang Air, traditionally known as Batang Ai, is about 200km east of Kuching and less than 100km south of Sibu, in Sarawak. It includes the western end of the central Sarawak mountain range as well as a small portion of river valley. It used to be called N25 in the 2001 state election, but has since been renamed N29.

Batang Air contains Batang Ai Dam, the largest operating hydroelectric dam in Malaysia, only waiting to be eclipsed by the unfinished and infamous Bakun Dam.

To the south, Batang Air borders Indonesia by over 100 kms. To the west, Batang Air is limited by highways No. 2109 and No. 1. To the north of Batang Air is N28 Engkilili DUN, the other DUN under P203 Lubok Antu. The eastern half is covered by mountain range. See map at WikiMapia.org.

The map on the right is sourced from http://maps.ysm.org.my.


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More than 1/2 of Batang Air is mountainous, and very difficult for MAFREL observers to cover.

Batang Air is also a huge area. We crudely estimate it to be 1,500 sq km; Batang Air looks about 75km wide and average about 20 km deep, based on WikiMapia.org satellite map and Wikimapia.org terrain map (right), and constituency map. This will make Batang Air DUN roughly 1.5x Penang state (1,046sqkm), 2x Perlis (810sqkm), 30x Putrajaya, and 6x KL FT. That is 1/4 the size of Brunei (5,765sqkm), and 2x of Singapore (710sqkm)! Note the relative size of Singapore and of part of Johor in the map to the right, as compared to Batang Air. (updated Mar 27)


Mostly hilly and jungle area, with about 100km of winding border adjoining Indonesia too!

Please donate or contribute man power to MAFREL's monitoring of Batang Air. See:

• Kuching report: election campaign picks up! (2009-03-24)
  
• Mafrel met Sarawak SPR Chief: transport issues still a major challenge
• Observers training about to reach target-but fund is still short

Voters Summary. Table A shows that Batang Air is a small DUN constituency with about 8 thousand voters. This contrasts sharply with Kedah's N25 Bukit Selambau, which is also a state seat but which contains about 35 thousand voters. A vote in Batang Air is equivalent to more than 4 votes in Bukit Selambau! (There goes the one-person-one-vote principle.)

Batang Air contains:

• 7,963 non-postal voters and 43 postal voters, totaling 8,006 voters.
• has 24 DMs (Daerah Mengundi, voting district), and 24 TMs (Tempat Mengundi, voting station),
  
• Most of the DMs and TMs have only 1 saluran (voting stream) for voting (except 203/29/02, which contains 2 salurans)
• Therefore, in total, there are 25 salurans
• Separately, we have calculated that most of the salurans are small. Min size is 75 voters, max size is 673 voters
  

Table A: P0203 Lubok Antu N29 Batang Air 200902 By-Election
Summary of Data By DUN

Parl/DUN	NamaDUN	DM count	TM count	Saluran count	Voter count
203/29	Batang Air	24	24	25	7,963
Non-postal	1	24	24	25	7,963
Postal voters					43
Total including postal voteres					8,006

Past Election Results

The current by-election at Batang Air is at the state (DUN) level. Batang Air faced state election in 2001 and May 2006, and parliamentary elections in March 2004 and March 2008. There was a seat delineation before the 2004 GE, and Batang Air has been re-numbered from N25 to N29.

• 2006 state election at Wikipedia.org was held on May 20, 2006.
• 2001 state election results in detail from Utusan.com.my. Lubok Antu was still called P177 then, Batang Ai was then N25. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/SpecialCoverage/Sarawak2001/index.asp?pg=kawasan.htm
• http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/SpecialCoverage/Sarawak2001/index.asp?pg=p177_lubuk_antu.htm
  
• 2001 seat map from Utusan.com.my
  

• 2004 and 2008 parliamentary election results (P203 Lubok Antu) at http://undi.info/ax/state/sw/2008/parliament/P203.html
  
• 2004 and 2008 state-wide parliamentary results and map for Sarawak at http://undi.info/state/sw.html
  

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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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