JEJU (SOUTH KOREA): PKR’s win in the Penanti by-election cannot be a gauge of its popularity because it was only challenged by independent candidates, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
He said it was also hardly an encouraging win as only less than half of the registered voters in the constituency cast their votes.
“It is not a victory to be proud of,” he told the Malaysia media who were covering the Asean-South Korea Commemorative Summit here Monday.
PKR’s Mansor Othman won the by-election by garnering 6,052 votes.
Independents Nai-Kan Ari obtained 494 votes while Aminah Abdullah and Kamarul Ramizu obtained 392 and 56 votes respectively.
Only 7,101 voters or 46.15% of the 15,384 voters in the constituency cast their votes.
Najib said it was also not much of a victory for PKR’s Mansor because he obtained less votes than his predecessor, former Penang Chief Minister I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin.
In the general election last year, Mohammad Fairus won the seat by polling 7,346 votes, beating Barisan Nasional candidate Datuk Abdul Jalil Abdul Majid with a majority of 2,219 votes.
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