KUALA LUMPUR - Barisan Nasional (BN) retained its state seat in the Mahkota by-election in Johor on Sept 28 by a landslide margin, demonstrating its continued dominance in the southern Malaysian state.
Barisan Nasional controls the Johor state government with its super majority of 40 of the 56 seats in the state assembly.
After thanking the election machinery and “our friends in PH”, Umno Secretary-General Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki said: “Thank you to the Chinese voters as well for giving us their strong support, as we won big in the Dorset district polling centre where Barisan received 3,159 votes against Perikatan ’s 1,040.”
According to the Election Commission, Mahkota has 66,318 registered voters, with Malays accounting for 54% followed by Chinese witth 34% and Indians with 8%. At any rate, BN’s thumping victory is a clear rejection of PN’s religious and ethnic politics which focus on divisive narratives that may alienate more moderate and multicultural segments of the electorate, he added.
Still, before the votes were tallied, a BN win was not a surety. While member parties of BN and PH – namely Umno and the Democratic Action Party – had campaigned together in Mahkota to canvass support from the Malay and non-Malay voters, a war of words between their leaders earlier threatened to derail this effort.
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