DAP retains Penang, maintains 2/3rd majority

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LIVE REPORTS
10:08pm: In Labis, Johor, DAP candidate Ramakrishnan Suppiah is expected to beat incumbent MP Chua Tee Yong (BN).

DAP - 11,434
BN -  9,677  

Total voters: 37,787 
10.05pm: In Bentong, Pahang, Wong Tack (DAP) has taken the lead against incumbent MP Liow Tiong Lai (BN). If Wong Tack is able to win this seat, Pahang Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob will have to cut his ears.

DAP - 16,682
BN - 13,684

Total voters: 62,400
10.04pm: Pakatan Rakyat retains the Penang state government with a landslide majority, with DAP winning all 19 seats it contested.

Despite allegations of vote buying in his constituency, DAP secretary general Lim Guan Eng retains the Air Putih state seat, to continue as Pakatan's chief minister for the state.

PKR manages to hold on to its stronghold in Bayan Baru, winning the parliamentary seats and all three state seats under it. It is leading in Kebun Bunga, Teluk Bahang, Pulau Betong.

To add to BN's misery, its state chief Teng Chang Yeow lost in Bukit Tengah to PKR's Ong Chin Wen.
9.56pm: DAP’s Liew Chin Tong has wrested the Kluang parliamentary seat in Johor from MCA. With 89% of votes counted, it has an unassailable lead:

DAP - 33,863
BN - 26,499

Meanwhile, it is also expected to win Kulai. So far in the vote count:

DAP - 28,058
BN - 16,192
Independent - 137

In Gelang Patah, Lim Kit Siang (DAP) is on the way to victory. He has increased his lead to 10,577 votes.

DAP - 29,942
BN - 19,365
9.47pm: In Kota Kinabalu, Wong Tze Phin (DAP) leads comfortably from Chin Tek Ming (BN) and Liew Hock Leong (Star).

DAP - 3,791
BN - 716
Star - 87

Total voters: 50,569
9.40pm: Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR) is expected to retain Lembah Pantai. She has widened her lead over Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin (BN)

PKR - 23,125
BN - 19,580
Independent - 126

Votes counted: 59.55% 
9.38pm: According to Oriental Daily, SUPP is left with one parliamentary seat, Serian, which is retained by its bumiputera candidate Richard Riot Jaem.

It lost Stampin, Sarikei and Lanang to DAP, and Miri to PKR. It also failed to recapture Kuching and Sibu from DAP.
   
9.30pm: Penang, Lim Guan Eng announces that Pakatan retains the state and holds on to its two-thirds state assembly majority, speaking at his Air Putih operations centre.
9.25pm: Chan Foong Hin (DAP) unofficially retains Sri Tanjong state seat in Sabah, which falls under the Tawau parliamentary constituency.
He defeats Fung Len Fui (BN), Olivia Chong Oi Yun (Star) and Yong Ah Poh (SAPP).

DAP - 10,162
BN - 4,489
SAPP  - 226
Star  -124

Total voters: 22,151
9.25pm: Latest count shows Lim Kit Siang (DAP) is still ahead of Abdul Ghani Othman (BN) in Gelang Patah, Johor.
DAP - 22,312
BN - 15,007

Total voters: 106,864
9.19pm: Unofficial results - BN has retaken Kedah from PAS.

Meanwhile, PKR wins the state seat of Indera Kayangan in Perlis. This is the first time the seat has fallen to the opposition.

Indera Kayangan is one of the five state seats under the Kangar parliamentary constituency, comprising 47.7% Malays, Chinese 46.8% and 4.3% Indians.  
9.08am: Official results from the Election Commission - out of 31 parliamentary seats in Sarawak:

BN - 16
DAP - 1
9.06pm: Latest from Fahmi Fadzil, who is Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR) aide: Nurul is  maintaining her narrow lead in this tough battle with Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin (BN). The vote count so far:

PKR - 27,234
BN - 25,666

Total voters: 72,533   
8.50pm - DAP looks set to win all 19 state seats contested in Penang. The party is also likely to win all state seats contested in Perak and Selangor.
8.45pm - Close call for BN's Anyi Ngau in Baram. He garnered 9,182 while PKR's Roland Egan 8,988 and Patrick Sibat Sujang polled 363. The total opposition vote exceeds the BN vote. 
8.55pm: DAP has so far retained five of its parliamentary seats: Kuching in Sarawak and four seats in Kuala Lumpur - Bukit Bintang, Seputeh, Kepong and Segambut.

Meanwhile, PKR has retained Bayan Baru in Penang.

Umno has held on to Putrajaya and the Kuala Lumpur seat of Setiawangsa. Unconfirmed report also indicates that it has won Titiwangsa from PAS, also in Kuala Lumpur.

On the spot analysis: Based on this early results, it appears that there is a swing among Malay voters to BN.
8.50pm: Lim Kit Siang (DAP) continue to dominate vote count in Gelang Patah, Johor.

DAP - 11,672
BN - 8,976

Total voters: 106,864
8.48pm: According to Fahmi Fadzil, an aide of Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR), the incumbent MP is maintaining her narrow lead against Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin (BN) in the vote count.

PKR - 23,242
BN - 19,843

Total voters: 72,533  
8.41pm: Lim Kit Siang (DAP) retains his lead over Abdul Ghani Othman (BN) in Gelang Patah, Johor.

DAP - 10,892
BN - 8,549

Total voters: 106,864 
8.34pm: In Kulai, Teo Nie Ching (DAP) is leading over Tay Chin Hein (BN) and S Kuppayah (Independent) for the parliamentary seat.

DAP: 8,613
BN: 6,292
Independent: 85
Total voters: 84,149
8.33pm: Bayan Baru, in Penang is unofficially won by Sim Tze Tzin (PKR), but with a lower majority, ahead of Tan Heap Seng (BN).

PKR - 11,129
BN - 5,481
Total voters: 79,307
8.28pm: Unofficial result: DAP retains Bandar Kuching.

DAP - 30,133
BN - 10,491
Majority - 19,640

Incumbent MP Chong Chieng Jen (DAP) has increased his majority by almost 10,000 votes. In 2008, Chong won the seat by a margin of 9,952 votes.
8.26pm: Khalid Abd Samad (PAS) leads ahead of Zulkifli Noordin (BN) in Shah Alam, Selangor.

BN  - 5,130
PAS - 5,742

Total voters: 100,076
8.21pm: At 61 percent votes counted, caretaker human resources minister S Subramaniam (BN) pulls ahead in Segamat, Johor, ahead of Chua Jui Meng (PKR).

PKR - 10,466
BN - 13,246

Total voters: 47,115

Meanwhile in Pasir Gudang, Normala Abdul Samad (BN) is leading over Ahmad Faidhi Saidi (PKR)

PKR - 11,001
BN - 11,616

Total voters: 101,121

8.20pm: In Lembah Pantai, incumbent MP Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR) maintains her lead against Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin (BN) in the vote count.

PKR - 11,941
BN - 10,623
Independent - 74

Total voters: 72,533 

 

8.13pm: Lim Kit Siang (DAP) continues has widen his lead over Abdul Ghani Othman (BN) in Gelang Patah, Johor.

DAP - 10,889

BN - 8,557

Total voters: 106,864

 

8.06pm: In Labis, Johor, DAP candidate Ramakrishnan Suppiah is leading against incumbent MP Chua Tee Yong (BN).

DAP - 3,561
BN - 2,225   

Total voters: 37,787

 

8.05pm: In Lembah Pantai, incumbent MP Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR) has taken the lead for the first time against Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin (BN) in the vote count.

PKR - 7,746
BN - 7,128
Independent - 54

Total voters: 72,533

 

8pm: In Penang state seats, DAP is ahead of BN in all the seats counted so far, while the count in four seats Bagan Dalam, Datok Keramat, Batu Lancang and Paya Terubong are not in yet.

Lim Guan Eng is ahead of MCA’s Tan Ken Keong in Air Putih:    

DAP - 5,906   
BN - 1,055

P Ramasamy is ahead of MIC’s Krishnan Letchumanan in Perai:

DAP - 5,794   
BN - 1,415

 

8pm: In Perak, M Saravanan (BN) is leading in Tapah, over Vasantha Kumar Khrishnan (PKR), Shaharuzzaman Bistamam (Berjasa) and Ridzuan Bni (Independent).

BN  - 1,725
PKR  - 1,434
Berjasa - 202
Ind - 41

Total voters: 45,592

 

7.59pm: In Air Putih, Penang incumbent chief minister Lim Guan Eng (DAP) is way ahead of Tan Ken Keong (BN) for the state seat.

DAP - 3,180
BN - 655

 

Total voters: 13,848

 

7.46pm: Pakatan Rakyat has taken the lead in two targeted Johor parliamentary seats:

In Segamat, Chua Jui Meng (PKR) is ahead of incumbent MP S Subramaniam (BN).

PKR - 5,855
BN - 4,227

Total voters: 47,115

In Kluang, Liew Chin Tong (DAP) is ahead of incumbent MP Hou Kok Chung (BN).

DAP - 5,369
BN - 3,390

Total voters: 86,914 

 

7.45pm: In Putrajaya, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (BN) unofficially wins Putrajaya, defeating Husam Musa (PAS) by a 5,438-vote majority.

BN - 9,804
PAS - 4,366.

 

Total voters: 15,798

 

7.40pm: In Pasir Gudang, PKR candidate Ahmad Faidi Saidi leads in early vote count in a straight fight with Normala Abdul Samad (BN).

PKR - 5,131
BN - 3731
       
There are 101,121 voters in this parliamentary constituency.

 

7.36pm: It’s Liew Chin Tong (DAP) in the lead in Kluang, Johor. He is ahead of Hou Kok Chung (BN) by almost 300 votes so far.

DAP  -698
BN - 402

Over in Kulai, Teo Nie Ching (DAP) leads over Tay Chin Hein (BN) and Surendiran Kuppayah (Independent).

DAP - 8,760
BN - 5,638
Ind - 48

 

7.31pm: In Lembah Pantai, Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal (BN), is leading by a comfortable margin over Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR) while Independent Rusli Baba is out of the race.

 

BN - 2,410
PKR - 986
Independent - 5

7.29pm: Lim Kit Siang (DAP) continues to edge in front of Abdul Ghani Othman (BN) in Gelang Patah, Johor.

 

DAP - 4,719

BN - 4,642

 

7.28pm: Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's Twitter and Facebook posting said that the opposition coalition had won.

"PR has won. We urge UMNO and the EC to not attempt to hijack the results. #ubah," the posting read.

When contacted, PKR social media strategist Praba Ganesan confirmed that Anwar's social media accounts had not been hijacked but cautioned people should not be "over the top" over the message.

"The results is still coming in and being counted, it just reflects his confidence, it is more of a statement of confidence than of fact," he said.

7.24pm: For the first time in the vote count, Lim Kit Siang (DAP) has taken the lead in Gelang Patah, Johor. Abdul Ghani Othman (BN) is now trailing Kit Siang a little over 100 votes.

 

DAP - 3,567

BN - 3,422

 

7.22pm: In Ipoh Timor, Perak, Kathleen Wong Mei Yin (BN) is trailing behind Su Keong Siong (DAP)

BN - 6,379
DAP  - 25,305

 

7.19pm: Lim Kit Siang (DAP) is still trailing Abdul Ghani Othman (BN) in Gelang Patah, Johor. However, he has narrowed the gap with only a little more than 300 votes separating the two.

 

BN - 2,699
DAP - 2,325

 

Meanwhile in Kulai, Teo Nie Ching (DAP) has increased her lead.

DAP - 2,856
BN - 1,825

Independent - 19

 

7.16pm: Penang Deputy Chief Minister P Ramasamy (DAP) is on the way of retaining his Perai state seat. He has taken a strong lead in early vote count.

DAP - 2,055
BN - 545
Independent - 5

There are 16,087 voters in this state seat. 

 

7.10pm: Nurul Izzah Anwar (PKR) is trailing far behind Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin (BN) in Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, in early vote count.

BN - 1,783
PKR - 76
Independent - 1

There are 72,533 voters in this parliamentary constituency.

 

7.07pm: Chong Chieng Jen (DAP) is currently leading against Tan Kai (BN) in Bandar Kuching, Sarawak.

BN - 3,328
DAP - 6,247

Meanwhile, Julian Tan Kok Ping (DAP) is also in the lead against Yong Koon Seng (BN) and Soo Lina (Star) in Stampin.

BN - 3,565
DAP - 6,115
Star- 3

 

7.03pm: In Bentong, Pahang, incumbent MP Liow Tiong Lai (BN) is running neck and neck with challenger Wong Tack (DAP). In early vote count, Liow is leading by less than 100 votes.

 

BN - 1,354

DAP - 1,276

6.55pm: Lim Kit Siang (DAP) is still trailing Abdul Ghani Othman (BN)  in Gelang Patah, Johor. 

BN - 2,237
DAP - 1,382

 

Meanwhile in Kulai, Teo Nie Ching (DAP) is holding on to her lead.

DAP - 1,499
BN - 801

6.48pm: In Penang, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng in his seat of Air Putih in early count.
DAP - 820
BN - 171
There are 13,848 voters in this state seat. 6.40pm: DAP candidate Teo Nie Ching, who is former Serdang MP, is leading in Kulai parliamentary seat in Johor.
She is in a three-way fight with Tay Chin Hein (BN) and Surendiran Kuppayah (Independent).
DAP - 1,336
BN - 509
It is very early in the vote count as there are 84,149 voters in this constituency.
6.36pm: BN is leading in Gelang Patah, Johor which sees the contest between two top guns - Abdul Ghani Othman (BN) and Lim Kit Siang (DAP).
BN - 1,532
DAP - 688
There are 106,864 votes in this constituency.
6.27pm: DAP is trailing in two other seats in Sarawak:
In Sibu, BN is leading DAP 3,033 against 1,856 votes.
Lau Lee Ming (BN) is facing Oscar Ling Chai Yew in this seat. There is also an Independent, Narawi Haron.
In Bintulu, BN is leading DAP 6,098 against 2,323.
Tiong King Sing (BN) is defending his seat against John Brian Anthony Jeramy Kuang (DAP).
6.07pm: PKR may pick up the parliamentary seat of Saratok in Sarawak. It is leading after more than one-fifth of the vote counted.
Saratok sees at three-way fight among Ali Biju (PKR), William Ikom (BN) and Ab Roselie Ab Paleng (Independent).
There are 27,630 voters in this constituency located between Kuching and Sibu, comprising 74% Muslim bumiputera, 20% non-Muslim bumiputera and 5% Chinese.
Out of 39 ballot boxes counted:
BN - 2,418
PKR - 3,769
Independent - 86
Spoilt - 61
6.05pm: Malaysiakini journalist stopped from entering the Umno headquarters at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) where top leaders are expected to be there later tonight to wait for the results.
Malaysiakini was not barred from PWTC in 2008.
6pm: After a full day of polling, it's now down to the nitty-gritty procedures relating to counting.
At the close of the day, the presiding officer at the 8,245 polling stations across the nation will seal the ballot boxes in the presence of the candidates' polling agents.

All of them are to affix their signatures or seals on the ballot boxes. Then the Election Commission officer will compare the number of ballot papers issued based on his or her records with those not used in front of the polling agents. The numbers must match.

When all the ballot papers are accounted for, the presiding officer will reopen the boxes and proceed to count the ballots in front of the agents.

Each ballot paper will be shown to the agents as it is counted. Ballot papers which do not conform to the rules, such as spoilt votes, will be marked ‘rejected’ while the accepted ones will be added to the respective candidates tally.

After the votes are counted at the various polling stations, a statement of the results of the poll will then be sent to the returning officer at the central counting centre located in each constituency.

The returning officer, on receiving the results from the polling stations, will add all these votes, inclusive of postal votes, to determine the winner.