Malay voters played pivotal role in PN retaining Sungai Bakap

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The community, which makes up nearly 60% of the registered voters in the state seat, had come out in droves to back the opposition.   Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/07/07/malay-voters-played-pivotal-role-in-pn-retaining-sungai-bakap/    Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTNews #MalayVoters #SungaiBakap #PerikatanNasional

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00:00Malay voters, who form nearly 60% of the Sungai Pakap electorate, played a vital role in ensuring

00:08that Perikatan Nasional retained the state seat with a bigger majority.

00:13Some 24,711 voters cast their ballots, which made up 63.45% of the total 39,279 registered

00:23voters in the constituency.

00:26According to PN's internal data, about 70% of the 22,815 Malay voters came out to cast

00:34their ballots, with a majority supporting the opposition.

00:38About 12,776 Malay votes swung in PN's favour.

00:43While Chinese and Indian voters continued to back Pakatan Harapan, they did not come

00:48out in droves.

00:50Fewer than half of the 8,642 Chinese voters went to the polls, while some 58% of the total

00:586,683 Indian electorate voted this time around, resulting in 6,176 non-Malay votes swinging

01:07in PH's favour.

01:09Interestingly, 1,763 non-Malay voters decided to back PN, the data showed.

01:17PN won 7 out of 8 polling districts, doing well in key areas such as Sungai Duri with

01:23a 2,056-vote majority, Padang Lalang and Kampung Besar.

01:29PH maintained a lead only in Puteri Gunung, which is considered a PH stronghold, with

01:34a 369-vote majority.

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