Batu Sapi Racial Breakdown of votes

Abdul Aziz said the electoral rolls have been updated as of Oct 9 this year, with a total of 25,582 voters, including 1,535 postal voters.

In the 2008 general election, Chong, a PBS candidate, had won the Batu Sapi parliamentary seat with 9,479 votes, beating Independent candidate Chung Kwong Wing by a majority of 3,708 votes.

In the 2008 polls, the breakdown of voters according to race was: Chinese at 37.2 percent, Muslim bumiputera at 60.1 percent, non-Muslim bumiputera at 2.3 percent and others, 0.3 percent.

However, since the electoral roll has been updated to October this year, Abdul Aziz added that there had been a rise in the number of voters as young as 21 and, some over 90.

He also provided the breakdown of the current electoral roll according to the two state constituencies under Batu Sapi - Sekong and Karamunting

In Sekong, Chinese voters numbered 2,366 or 21 percent followed by Sabah bumiputeras at 6,031 or 53 percent.

The rest include 2,167 Malays (19 percent), 676 others (6 percent), 41 Sarawak bumiputeras (0.36 percent), 37 Indians (0.33 percent) and three Orang Asli 0.03 (percent).

In Karamunting, the Chinese make up 9,546 voters or 37 percent followed by Sabah bumiputeras at 9,565, also 37 percent.

The rest include 5,000 Malays (20 percent), 1,213 Others (5 percent), 92 Indians (0.36 percent), 158 Sarawak bumiputeras (0.62 percent) and eight Orang Asli (0.03 percent).