27/11/2022
If you wanna call this the "pahat yang masih berbunyi setelah rumah dah siap", you can't be far wrong mate... But this chisel is not to rake unwarranted holes to the house, perhaps it's more of appreciating the artwork of the house and adding more understanding to the underlying reasons why the house could have been built better with the right base component. ahaa..
Well, you see ... it goes without saying that the rakyat has shown their swing of confidence to PN... the data says so. No, it's not just the First-Time-Voters. Yes, of the 2.7 mil FTVs a huge chunk indeed went to PN. In fact 1.2 mil went to PN, 900k went to PH and only 600k went to BN. But that wasn't all that happened mate.
Truth be told, the base votes for PH has shrunk from 5,030,000 to 4,320,000 and 710,000 of those voters switched over to PN, don't worry about whether the beneficiary is BERSATU or PAS, ok. On top of that, the base votes for BN has shrunk from 3,270,000 to 2,640,000 and 630,000 of those voters have parted ways with BN and voted for PN instead.
In summary, the base votes for PN grew from 2,010,000 (PAS) in GE14 to 3,400,000 in GE15 and adding the FTVs to PN's collection, the net voters for PN now stands at 4,610,000. Staggering isn't it? Whilst in GE14, PH had benefitted from 1.169 mil of BN swingers, in GE15, 60% or 710k of those voters had decided to switch to PN.
If you want to know how the ground has shifted, this is it. But the ground movement did not manifested itself in synchrony with the seats movement. Poor PN is again outplayed and this time for not reaching the 95 or at least 90 seats in the Peninsular in order to rope in the remaining numbers from Borneo for a simple majority.
The chisel had exposed more gems covered by the dirt 😁... at least. If in GE14, PH was added by the Galah Sejengkal, this time round PN went for broke without any extension pole ... the galah sejengkal wasn't handy too. 😉