The Star did not mention the source of its statistics, so I assume they did the calculations themselves.<\/p>\n
Of the parties drawing the biggest of the popular votes in Parliament, Umno leads at 35.51% (2,462,749) followed by PAS (21.65% – 1,501,800), PKR (13.15% – 911,761) DAP (12.76% – 884,941) and MCA (9.14% – 633,985). In the states, it was almost the same order with Umno leading at 29.99% (2,371,867) followed by PKR (18.6% – 1,471,150), PAS (14.75% – 1,166,918), DAP (14.01% – 1,107,960) and MCA (10.74% – 849,108).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From the above it is only logical since UMNO contested the most seats, thus having highest probability of securing more votes, even if a candidates loses. Worryingly, PAS seems to have second highest popular votes percentage in Parliment, even though they contested less seats than PKR. DAP obviously trashed MCA in all sense, so nothing much to consider there, except that DAP contest in more seats than MCA. MIC is not in the list.<\/p>\n
In terms of actual votes, those voting for the opposition increased by over one million and that for the Barisan dropped by between 360,000 and 396,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That means opposition received nearly 600k new votes and 360-400k switched from\u00a0voting BN?<\/p>\n
This election, the popular vote for Barisan was biggest in Johor (15% – 613,813) and Selangor (12.8% – 522,091). The opposition scored big in Selangor (17.09% – 656,347) and Perak (11.74% – 450,929).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Again Johor being UMNO stronghold, received higher votes. Selangor and Perak were won by the opposition, meaning whatever they did, or whatever happened in these states gave advantage to the opposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the four “new” states that Barisan lost – Kedah, Penang, Perak and Selangor – the decrease in popular votes for the MCA, Gerakan, MIC and PPP was less than that for Umno<\/strong>, which ranged from two percentage points in Perak and Selangor to five percentage points in Kedah and seven in Penang.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hmmm…\u00a0this indicates not much of a swing among Chinese and Indian votes, even though in some\u00a0area the Chinese and Muslims make up more than 60% of the voters. Or is it people don’t like UMNO candidates as much as other candidates?<\/p>\n
In the distribution of popular votes within the DAP-PAS-PKR loose coalition in those four states, the DAP topped the list in Penang (54.62%0 and Perak (42.42%) while PAS led them in Kedah (69.89%) and PKR in Selangor (35.93%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
More reasons for DAP candidate to be Perak MB. Nearly half the state support DAP!<\/p>\n
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BN loses 12 percentage points in popular vote<\/p>\n