COMMENT | State, constituency and local differences in voting patterns

COMMENT | I refer to Bridget Welsh’s preliminary analysis of voting patterns among the major ethnic communities in Peninsular Malaysia published on Nov 25.

Her analysis of a divided electorate by ethnicity is largely correct with Perikatan Nasional (PN) winning a majority of Malay support, Pakatan Harapan winning a significant percentage of Chinese and Indian support and BN winning about one-third of the Malay support in Peninsular Malaysia.

My analysis here is to provide a greater understanding of voting patterns at the state and constituency levels in the peninsula.

For example, the Harapan support of...