Parliamentary Seats (Preview) - Federal Territories

In the 2004 elections, the opposition did quite well winning 4 out of the 11 parliamentary seats in Kuala Lumpur. The opposition should be able to retain the 4 seats in 2008 and perhaps capture another 2 more seats.

However, in both of the other 2 Federal Territories, Labuan and Putrajaya, which have 1 parliamentary seat each the BN won with comfortable margins in 2004. It will be difficult for the opposition to make much headway in both these seats in the 2008 elections.

The Putrajaya seat has only 5,079 voters with a turnout of 4,654 in the 2004 elections consisting mostly of civil servants. This is a example of gerrymandering where a parliamentary constituency which is pro-BN has only about 5,000 voters as compared to other constituencies won by the opposition having more than 70,000 voters such as the Ipoh Timor parliamentary seat won by DAP in 2004.

It is also interesting to note that in 2004 the Putrajaya seat was won by Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor who was prominently mentioned in the Lingam video. There is speculation that he may not be nominated for this seat in the 2008 elections.

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