Permatang Pauh Official Electoral Roll - An Overview

We summarize the official electoral roll for Permatang Pauh P044.

How was this electoral roll built? We believe the SPR has constructed this official by-election voters' roll (said to be dated 2008 July 31) from these building blocks:

• The electoral roll gazetted on 2008 Jun 19, based on 2008 March 31 (2008Q1) data
• Delete dead voters, moved-out, and other deletion-type, voters reported as of 2008 Jun 30 (2008Q2), ungazetted voters roll
• Delete further any voters aged 100-year-old and older.

Step 3 raises the question whether proper procedures have been followed to verify the deletion, or voters 100 or more years old have simply been deleted.

What Table A below tells us:

• Permatang Pauh contains 3 state assembly seats (DUNs)
• It contains 28 voting districts (DM or Daerah Mengundi),
  
• But it contains only 25 polling or voting stations (TM, or Tempat Mengundi), because 3 paris of DMs shared TMs.
• There is a total of 420 localities or street area, or police stations (or army camps).
• There are 58,459 voters, made up of 57,969 non-postal voters and 490 postal voters.
  

Table A: P044 Permatang Pauh - An Overview

The Number of …
DUN or State Assembly Seats	3
DM or Voting Districts	28
TM or Voting/Polling Station	25
Lokaliti or Localities	420
Non-postal voters	57,969
Postal voters	490
Total Voters	58,459

What Table B below tells us:

• This is a by-election at the parliamentary level, and not DUN level, but voters are still organized under 3 DUNs.
  
• Seberang Jaya is the largest DUN, with 39% of the voters,
• Penanti is the smallest DUN, only 2/3 the size of SJ.
• There are 28 voting districts (DM), excluding postal voters,
• There are 110 voting streams (Saluran), excluding postal voters.

Table B: P044 Permatang Pauh - Voters Broken Down by DUN

Parl/DUN code	NamaDUN State Seat Name	Voters	Percentage	DM Voting Districts	Saluran Voting Streams
044/10	Seberang Jaya	22,790	39.0%	9	39
044/11	Permatang Pasir	20,289	34.7%	9	39
044/12	Penanti	15,380	26.3%	10	32
P044	Total	58,459	100.0%	28	110

Table C below shows:

• The names for 28 voting district (DM),
  
• The name for 25 voting station (TM), because those DMs in red shared the same TMs,
  
• The number of voters, ranging from 509 to 3,100 voters per DM.
• The weight of voters of each voting district (DM), ranging from 0.9% to 5.3% of total,
  

• The number of voting stream (Saluran) per DM, from 1 to mostly 5.
• Note that TM "Sekolah Kebangsaan Seberang Jaya II Lengkok Tenggiri" contains 10 voting streams because it is shared by two DMs (5TM+5TM).
  
• There are two other TMs with 8 and 7 voting streams for similar reason.

• We can predict that old voters in such large TMs may be required to climb upstairs to vote. The three largest TMs are shared by two DMs each. Hopefully, there will be 10 class rooms on the ground floor to accommodate all the voting streams.
  
• If there are not enough classrooms on the ground floor, voters from the first DM may be assigned to voting streams on ground floor, while voters from the second DM may be assigned upstairs.
  
• In this case, even though the electoral roll attempts to arrange older voters (lower IC #) in the first few voting streams (Saluran), they are queued in front only on the upper floors.
  
• The solution is for SPR to split the voting center vertically (left side for one DM and right side for the others), instead of horizontally.
  

• You can also click under the "TM / Voting Station" for map links to each voting station (TM).
  

Table C: P044 Permatang Pauh Non-Postal Voters Broken Down by Voting District (28 NamaDM)

Parl/ DUN/ DM	Nama DUN / State Assembly Seat	NamaDM / Voting District	TM / Voting Station (Click link for map)	Voters	Per cent	Sa lu ran	Sha red TM?
044/10/01	Seberang Jaya	Jalan Sembilang	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Seberang Jaya	2,933	5.1%	5
044/10/02	Seberang Jaya	Seberang Jaya II	Sekolah Kebangsaan Seberang Jaya II Lengkok Tenggiri	2,966	5.1%	5	Shared
044/10/03	Seberang Jaya	Kampong Pertama	Sekolah Kebangsaan Permatang Tok Kandu	1,607	2.8%	3
044/10/04	Seberang Jaya	Kampong Belah Dua	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Pauh Jaya Taman Pauh	2,168	3.7%	4
044/10/05	Seberang Jaya	Seberang Jaya I	Sekolah Kebangsaan Seberang Jaya Persiaran Siakap	3,100	5.3%	5
044/10/06	Seberang Jaya	Jalan Bahru	Sekolah Kebangsaan Jalan Baharu	2,274	3.9%	4
044/10/07	Seberang Jaya	Simpang Ampat	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Permatang Rawa	2,223	3.8%	4
044/10/08	Seberang Jaya	Jalan Tuna	Sekolah Kebangsaan Seberang Jaya II Lengkok Tenggiri	2,926	5.0%	5	Shared
044/10/09	Seberang Jaya	Taman Tun Hussein Onn	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tun Hussien Onn	2,127	3.7%	4
044/10	Subtotal			22,324	38.5%	39
044/11/01	Permatang Pasir	Sama Gagah	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sama Gagah	2,774	4.8%	5
044/11/02	Permatang Pasir	Permatang Ara	Sekolah Kebangsaan Permatang Pasir	2,980	5.1%	5
044/11/03	Permatang Pasir	Permatang Pauh	Sekolah Kebangsaan Permatang Pauh	1,759	3.0%	4
044/11/04	Permatang Pasir	Bukit Indra Muda	Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Indera Muda	2,750	4.7%	5
044/11/05	Permatang Pasir	Kampong Pelet	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Kubang Semang Jalan Kepala Batas	1,750	3.0%	4
044/11/06	Permatang Pasir	Kubang Semang	Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Penanti	1,424	2.5%	3	Shared
044/11/07	Permatang Pasir	Tanah Liat Mukim 8	Sekolah Kebangsaan Seri Penanti	2,175	3.8%	4	Shared
044/11/08	Permatang Pasir	Kampong Cross Street 2	Sekolah Rendah Islam Al Masriyah Jalan Abdul Kadir	2,179	3.8%	4
044/11/09	Permatang Pasir	Permatang Tengah	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Lay Keow Permatang Pauh	2,497	4.3%	5
044/11	Subtotal			20,288	35.0%	39
044/12/01	Penanti	Guar Perahu	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Guar Perahu	1,907	3.3%	4
044/12/02	Penanti	Kuala Mengkuang	Sekolah Kebangsaan Guar Perahu	2,727	4.7%	5
044/12/03	Penanti	Telok Wang	Dewan Orang Ramai Kampung Tun Sardon Ara Kuda	599	1.0%	1
044/12/04	Penanti	Mengkuang	Sekolah Kebangsaan Mengkuang	1,901	3.3%	4
044/12/05	Penanti	Sungai Lembu	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Perkampungan Sungai Lembu	509	0.9%	1
044/12/06	Penanti	Penanti	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Mengkuang	1,061	1.8%	3
044/12/07	Penanti	Kubang Ulu	Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Penanti	1,400	2.4%	3
044/12/08	Penanti	Sungai Semambu	Sekolah Kebangsaan Tanah Liat	1,872	3.2%	4	Shared
044/12/09	Penanti	Tanah Liat Mukim 9	Sekolah Kebangsaan Tanah Liat	1,920	3.3%	4	Shared
044/12/10	Penanti	Berapit Road	Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Jit Sin (A) Jalan Berapit	1,461	2.5%	3
	Subtotal			15,357	26.5%	32
P044	Total			57,969	100.0%	110

Note:

• We are not sure about the map locations for "Sekolah Rendah Islam Al Masriyah Jalan Abdul Kadir" (try tel: 04 538 5126, 04 521 5126), "Dewan Orang Ramai Kampung Tun Sardon Ara Kuda," and "Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Perkampungan Sungai Lembu" (A.K.A. SJK(C) Kg. Sg. Lembu, try tel: 04 521 1795).
• Please inform us about any map location mistakes.
• You can look up this PDF file for Penang schools' telephone numbers: http://www.moe.gov.my/emis/emis2/emisportal2/doc/fckeditor/File/senarai_sek_08/rendah/SekRen08_PP.pdf