If you add PAS and Umno votes (25,242) and minus with the Pakatan Harapan votes (18,695), 6,549 more voters did not vote for him. Mukhriz won because of the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system which we inherited from our colonial master, the British. On Thursday, Wong and University of Western Australia’s political science professor Ben Reilly, who is an internationally renowned electoral system expert, spoke to journalists about the alternative electoral system. So, the question is not whether we are sophisticated enough to adopt a new electoral system, but rather whether we want to adopt a new electoral system to be more sophisticated,” he said. Anyone for the MMP electoral system?

Source: thestar June 01, 2019 23:14 UTC