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Pakatan wins popular vote – and more seats

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Despite all the vote-buying, dubious voters etc, here are some telling statistics. Early calculations indicate Pakatan may have won the popular vote across the nation in the 2013 general election.

Parliamentary seats won

2008: BN 140 vs PR 82 (confirmed)
2013: BN 133 vs PR 89 (PR additional 7) (confirmed)

State assembly seats won

2008: BN 307 vs PR 196 (The Star, 2008 results)
2013: BN 275 vs PR 229 (PR wins additional 33 seats) (Official 2013 results)

Popular vote

2008: BN 4.082m (50.27%) vs PR 3.796m (46.75%) (Wikipedia entry on GE2008)
2013: BN 5.220m vs PR 5.489m (Pakatan won 269130 more votes than BN – Malaysian Insider early calculations)
2013: BN 5.238 PR 5.624 (revised – Malaysian Insider)

Peninsula: 2013: BN 45.74% PR 53.29% (Malaysiakini)
Nationwide: 2013: BN 47.38% PR 50.87% Others 1.74% (Malaysiakini)

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Serious irregularities mar Malaysian polls

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BN reached the 112-seat threshold to retain control of the federal goverment but there was no honour in victory, given the blatant vote-buying, political intimidation and even violence, and the many cases of doubtful voters.

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Live – Eve of polling

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Live coverage of the eve of polling from all over Malaysia.

Farewell to 1Malaysia free beers …

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Say bye-bye to the 1Malaysia free beers. Now we can expect Ubah! or GST.

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This is the sort of scene at the 1Malaysia free dinners all over Penang.

Earlier, one of the 1Malaysia free dinners had served a Vietnamese beer brand ‘3 Amigos, but this blog pointed out that it was a San Miguel beer. And you know who is linked to San Miguel, right? That was the last we saw of that beer. Since then it’s been stuff like Tiger beer and Carlsberg.

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‘Ini kalilah!’ Message from Anwar Ibrahim

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Anwar has released the following statement:

“We stand today on the brink of history. We have reached the last twenty-four hours of a historic campaign that will change Malaysia forever. Across country, we have seen hundreds of thousands of Malaysians of all ethnicities come out to our ceramahs. The response in frontline states such as Johor, Sabah and Sarawak, the heartland and fortresses of Umno and Barisan Nasional, has been tremendous.

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Vote-buying in Penang? (Videos)

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Check out what happened in Penang recently. What do you think is going on here? No prizes for guessing.

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Murder of Jalil Ibrahim: Mother of all corruption scandals

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Long before the Mongolian case, we had the BMF scandal. Bumiputra Malaysia Finance auditor Jalil Ibrahim was assigned to investigate dubious loans to the Carrian Group in Hong Kong. He was strangled to death in a Hong Kong hotel room in 1983 and his body dumped in undergrowth in a village.

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100000 flood George Town for ‘Ubah’ mega carnival

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Penangites showed the way with chants of “Ubah!” reverberating in the streets as the election campaign in here reached a climax. A huge crowd thronged the Esplanade and spilled onto the streets lending a festive air that was more exuberant than a samba parade.

As an indicator of the turnout, if the 80000-strong crowd at Han Chiang on Monday contributed RM240000 into the kitty, this time the money collected from some 100000 people almost touched RM600000. Many were seen putting RM5 and RM10 notes in the collection boxes.

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GE13: Bersih’s special announcement

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Bersih reps Pak Samad and Maria Chin Abdullah update us on developments ahead of GE13.

Swing states to decide Malaysian polls

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When voters head to the polls this Sunday in Malaysia, the hotly contested race could very well be decided in Sabah and Sarawak, potential swing states on the island of Borneo.

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