MyBenefits News  & Updates: Malaysia's 14th General Election (GE14) Interesting Facts & Stats

GE14 in the News

GE14 Categories of Voters

The 14th General Election's electoral rolls.

Eligible voters = 18.7 million
Voters who did not register = 3.76 million
Total registered voters for GE14 = 14,940,624

Voters on May 9,2018 = 14,427,535 voters

Early voters = 300,255 voters

• Vote at polling station = 278,590

• Early postal voting = 21,665

Postal voters = 212,834 voters

• Absent voters = 3,653 voters

• Form 1A for Police, Army and Media Personnel = 149,730 voters

• Form 1B for Overseas Malaysians = 7,979 voters

• Form 1C for Employees of Nine Departments and Agencies = 51,472 voters

Sources: Bernama; TheSundaily; Bernama

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Polling Day May 06, 2018

Only 212,834 postal voters in GE14: EC

The Election Commission (EC) refuted allegations that there are up to four million postal voters in the 14th general election (GE14) when the actual number is only 212,834 people encompassing various categories of applications. Read more >

Polling Day May 05, 2018 

GE14 Early Voting

585 polling centres with 910 voting channels opened for 278,590 early voters from the police and armed forces. The remaining 21,665 out of a total 300,255 early voters will cast their votes via post. Read more >

GE14 in the News

Polling Day May 05, 2018 

GE14 Malaysia's youth have the power they won't use 

Of the 18.7 million eligible voters in Malaysia as of the end of 2017, only 15 million have registered to vote.  67% of the 3.7 million who did not register are young adults age between 21 and 30.  Read more >

Source: BBC

Electoral Redelineation
Mar 31, 2018, EC's redelineation report now available online.  Read more >

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Mar 29, 2018, King consents to redelineation 

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Mar 29, 2018, EC explains the new boundaries 

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Mar 29, 2018, 98 out of 165 seats hit by redrawn boundaries
The tabling in the Malaysian Parliament yesterday of the Election Commission's (EC) redelineation report will affect 98 out of 165 parliamentary seats in Peninsular Malaysia. Only seats in Perlis and Putrajaya will not see any changes. Johor, Selangor and Perak states are the most affected, with 19, 18 and 16 parliamentary seats respectively seeing changes of some kind. Read more >

Categories of Voters
Normal Voter
Registered voter voting at the designated polling station on polling day

Police Personnel
Early voter - personnel who are required to be on duty on polling day
Postal voter - personnel who are required to be on duty on early voting and polling day. Apply using the Form 1A Postal Voting Application.  
Download Form 1A

Army Personnel
Early voter - personnel who are required to be on duty on polling day
Postal voter - personnel who are required to be on duty on early voting and polling day. Apply using the Form 1A Postal Voting Application.  
Download Form 1A

Media Personnel 
Postal voter - media personnel covering news of the election on polling day. Apply using the Form 1A Postal Voting Application.  
Download Form 1A

Overseas Malaysian
Absent voter - voters who did not apply to vote as postal voter
Postal voter – Apply using the Form 1B Postal Voting Application.  The EC opened the application for GE14 on January 28 and all applications must be submitted before the day that Parliament is dissolved.
 
Civil Servants on Duty (a new category gazetted in 2017)
The employees of nine departments and agencies who are required to be on duty on polling day. Apply using the Form 1A Postal Voting Application.  
The departments and agencies are the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Prisons Department, Fire and Rescue Department, Health Department (government hospitals and clinics), Auxiliary Police, Malaysian Civil Defence Force, Immigration Department, National Disaster Management Agency and the National Registration Department (only for staff at Urban Transformation Centre).
Download Form 1C