ANALYSIS The BN may like to think that it achieved a moral victory in the just concluded Sungai Limau by-election by slashing the PAS majority by half. However, this is not the case if one scrutinises the results closely.

The BN reduced the May 5 general election majority of PAS, by 1,690 votes, from 2,774 to 1,084 votes in yesterday's by-election, despite dishing out about RM15 million in allocations to the Sungai Limau constituency and its people.

In this, it must be noted that close to 4,000 eligible voters did not vote this time around...