TSUNAMI 12TH GENERAL ELECTION OF MALAYSIA

Source : Malaysiakini (simplified site)

Confirmed: Guan Eng is the new Penang CM - 1.01am

DAP confirmed today that its secretary general Lim Guan Eng will be the next Penang Chief Minister. He said that DAP would form the state government with PKR. “It will be a government for all Malaysians. We stress that we will not rule alone but together with PKR. We also hope that the PAS can help this new government”.

• Unofficial: BN denied its two-thirds - 12.59am

  Unofficially the opposition parties - DAP, PKR and PAS have managed to deny the BN its two-thirds majority in the Parliament. At the last count, DAP won 27, PKR 25 and PAS 24, bringing a total of 76 seats, one more than the magical number of 75 needed to deny the 2/3. Meanwhile the BN has won 108 seats. There are a total of 222 seats.

• MCA president shocked by BN losses - 12.58am

  MCA president Ong Ka Ting today expressed shock over the election results which saw the ruling Barisan Nasional losing scores of seats to the opposition.
  
  “The results are shocking because there are several states which BN has lost. However, MCA accepts the decision of the voters because it is their right,” he was quoted as saying by Bernama.
  
  Ong also added that MCA will conduct a detailed study on the defeat.

• Lion of Jelutong roars in Bukit Gelugor - 12.50am

  DAP’s Karpal Singh eats up Koay Kar Huah (BN) with a whopping 21,015 majority.

Official: Opposition wins big in Kelantan - 12.47am

PAS and PKR won 40 of the 45 state seats in Kelantan, with BN taking the rest. In 2004, the margin was much closer with the opposition having just a one-seat margin against the BN.

• Official: Wan Azizah retains Permatang Pauh - 12.31am

  The incumbent wins the seat with a larger majority of 13, 388 votes. She polled in 30, 338 as opposed to BN’s Firdaus Ismail’s 16, 950. In the three state seats under this constituency, BN took Seberang Jaya while Pas won Permatang Pasir and PKR won Penanti.

• Official: BN retains Perlis, Terengganu, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan - 12.28am

  The respective state menteris besar officially announced that the BN had retained the state governments in these states.

Unofficial: Opposition wins Selangor - 12.25am

Selangor has fallen into the hands of the opposition. PKR has earlier announced that its secretary-general Khalid Ibrahim will be named chief minister. In Selangor, DAP has taken 35 seats (DAP - 15, PKR - 11 and PAS - 9) out of the 56 seats in the state.

Meanwhile, the opposition is also doing very well in Perak but it is still not clear how many of the 59 state seats it has won.

Guan Eng to be Penang CM - 11.59pm

Guan Eng to be Penang CM - 11.59pm It is believed that DAP has named party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng as the next chief minister of Penang. DAP won all 19 state seats it contested in Penang with PKR winning six and Pas two. There are 40 state seats in Penang.

Confirmed: Opposition takes Kedah - 10.50pm

Both the PAS and PKR have won 22 out of 36 state seats in Kedah. This means that the combined opposition will form the next state government there. Apart from Kedah, the opposition has won two other states - Kelantan and Penang.

Teresa Kok wins with whopping 36,600 majority - 9.02pm

Teresa Kok has won her Seputeh parliamentary seat with an unprecedented 36,564 majority. She also won the Kinrara state seat with a massive 4,901 majority.

Confirmed: Opposition takes Penang - 8.52pm

Unofficial result: The opposition will form the next state government in Penang for second time in history. Gerakan, then an opposition party, won Penang almost 40 years ago. The DAP-PKR-PAS combination has collectively won at least 24 seats out of the 40 seats.

Blogger Jeff Ooi has big lead in Jelutong - 8.15pm

DAP’s Jeff Ooi is leading in the Jelutong parliamentary seat and the party is also leading in all three state seats in Jelutong - Datuk Keramat, Sungai Pinang and Batu Lanchang.