EC's new redelineation and the affected constituencies
The Election Commission (EC) yesterday published an updated redelineation proposal for Peninsular Malaysia following the conclusion of a four-month local inquiry to hear objections to its initial plan.
However, the updated redelineation proposal excluded Selangor as the EC failed to go ahead with its local inquiry in the state.
This was after the Selangor government successfully obtained a stay against EC's local inquiry from the High Court in Kuala Lumpur, pending a judicial review of the redelineation exercise.
The nationwide local inquiry, a requirement for the redelineation process, took place from Oct 31 last year to Feb 28.
The Election Commission (EC) yesterday published an updated redelineation proposal for Peninsular Malaysia following the conclusion of a four-month local inquiry to hear objections to its initial plan.
However, the updated redelineation proposal excluded Selangor as the EC failed to go ahead with its local inquiry in the state.
This was after the Selangor government successfully obtained a stay against EC's local inquiry from the High Court in Kuala Lumpur, pending a judicial review of the redelineation exercise.
The nationwide local inquiry, a requirement for the redelineation process, took place from Oct 31 last year to Feb 28.
The updated redelineation saw several proposed constituency name changes shelved while a handful received new names.
Only two parliamentary constituencies saw the composition of their state seats changed - Kota Melaka and Bukit Katil, which was also renamed as Hang Tuah Jaya.
The first redelineation plan had swapped the state constituency of Telok Mas in Kota Melaka with the state constituency of Bachang (new name: Pengkalan Batu) in Bukit Katil.
Based on 2013 election data, this would have seen the opposition's total majority in state seats within Bukit Katil reduced from 6,902 to 2,529 votes while its total majority in state seats within Kota Melaka would increase from 19,781 to 23,154 votes.
The updated redelineation reverses the initial proposal.
However, there is widespread moving around of polling districts that make up the state seats nationwide.
An example is the parliamentary seat of Maran, which under the first redelineation plan would have 69,635 voters comprising the state seats of Luit (24,162), Kuala Sentul (22,765) and Chenor (22,708).
Under the updated redelineation, Maran will only have 37,924 voters comprising Luit (11,109), Kuala Sentul (12,593) and Chenor (14,222).
Maran had 38,436 voters in the 13th general election.
Both the redelineation proposals were based on the same electoral roll gazetted on May 13, 2016.
Below is a summary of the changes made in the updated redelineation proposal, compared to the first redelineation plan.
PART I: Name Changes
PART III: State seats in which polling districts were shifted
Polling districts make up a state seat and state seats in turn make up a parliamentary seat.
The shifting of polling districts from one state seat to another can influence its winnability.
It can also influence the outcome of parliamentary seats if the polling districts are shifted from a state seat within a certain parliamentary constituency to another state seat in a different parliamentary constituency.
The exact polling districts that were shifted are not listed here. There are more than 6,800 polling districts nationwide.
Below are the affected constituencies which are listed according to their new names.
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