Pakatan’s Pang Sock Tao polled 14,000 votes to beat three other candidates to retain the seat by a 3,869-vote majority. It was the opposite in the state election last year when Perikatan garnered 77% of all early votes. “There were also some Malay votes from Umno supporters. This enabled Pakatan to win the majority of the votes in the Pertak and Sungai Air Jernih polling districts. According to IDE Selangor, the strongest support for Pakatan came from groups aged 41-50 and those above 61 at 58.3% and 66.8%, respectively.
