The recent polls done by Merdeka Centre on the trend of urban voters through phone interviews involving 1022 respondents throughout Peninsular Malaysia, is highlighted by Malaysiakini on August 4, 2007.Abdullah's rating remains high, with 86% of Malay, 71% Indian while 54% Chinese supporting the administration. The low Chinese support is due to the failure of Abdullah to fullfill most of his election promises, less confident with the government's ability in fulfilling the people's aspirations and the sluggish Malaysian economy can be addressed by having more opposition leaders in Parliament.
The accuratecy of this poll is yet to be proven as with a relatively small sample size of 1022 respondents, which includes those between 16 and 21 years which is not the voter.
According the poll, 54% of urban Chinese will vote opposition, so it means opposition can win when the Chinese voters are more than 60%. During last general election, only 12 Chinese majority seats with more than 70% Chinese voters and opposition won 10, except Bukit Bendera and Petaling Jaya Utara won by Gerakan and MCA respectively, so the result of the polls is by far not much different from last election results.
The accuratecy of this poll is yet to be proven as with a relatively small sample size of 1022 respondents, which includes those between 16 and 21 years which is not the voter.
According the poll, 54% of urban Chinese will vote opposition, so it means opposition can win when the Chinese voters are more than 60%. During last general election, only 12 Chinese majority seats with more than 70% Chinese voters and opposition won 10, except Bukit Bendera and Petaling Jaya Utara won by Gerakan and MCA respectively, so the result of the polls is by far not much different from last election results.
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The urban Chinese voters tend to support the opposition for check and balance of the political power. The trend did not change much since independent except 1969.
But now most of the constituencies is not Chinese dominated.
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