9.10pm: Returning officer Hassan Nawawi announces Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the new Kajang assemblyperson. 9.01pm - OFFICIAL RESULTS PKR - 16,741 BN - 11,362 Majority - 5,379 9pm: MCA operation centre - MCA candidate Chew Mei Fun, who has somehow accepted her defeat in by-election, congratulates PKR party president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail. Despite the defeat, Chew reveals that MCA has actually achieved two targets - reduce PKR majority votes and increase Chinese votes up to 25 percent. She says the unofficial results show that the total Chinese vote for MCA has gone up from the previous 18 percent in last years general election to 24.8 percent. We didnt manage to win this by-election, but in terms of unity of MCA, we have proven that... As the new leadership took over the party only two to three months ago, we have increased Chinese votes near to 25 percent - this is considered quite a good result, she enthuses. One possible explanation to the increase of Chinese votes for MCA and a similar increase of Malay votes for PKR could be perhaps some of the Chinese and Malays voted along racial lines. 8.56pm: PKR operations headquarters - PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil provides a quick analysis on the results: PKR won in two of Umno strongholds and reduced its rivals majority in two more. According to him, PKR won Sungai Sekamat by 45 votes and Taman Delima by three votes compared to the last general election where it lost both areas by 239 votes and 123 votes respectively. At Sungai Kantan, we lost by 420 votes last time but it has reduced to 225 votes while at Batu 10 Cheras, it has similarly been reduced to 151 votes. 8.55pm: Anwar accompanies Wan Azizah arrive to the tallying centre. Also present are Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali, PKR Wanita chief Zuraida Kamaruddin and a host of other PKR, PAS and DAP leaders. There are no BN leaders around so Pakatan leaders occupy seats allocated for both parties.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:30:56 +0000
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