DAP would have retained the Teluk Intan seat with a new MP in Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud if just another 1% of the final voter turnout of 40,236, or 400 voters, had returned from outstation to vote for her, said Lim Kit Siang (pic).
The party adviser suggested that the opposition party may have retained the seat it has held since 2008, if the polling day had been today, a Sunday.
"It would enable more outstation voters to make the journey back to Teluk Intan to vote, the result would have been very different," he said in a statement today.
Political newbie Dyana Sofya lost to Barisan Nasional's Datuk Mah Siew Keong in a razor thin majority of 238 votes.
Gerakan president Mah obtained 20,157 votes against Dyana's 19,919. There were 550 spoilt votes.
Mah was a two-term Teluk Intan MP after winning the parliamentary seat in the 1999 and 2004 general elections. But in the last two elections, he lost to M. Manogaran , in 2008 by a 1,830-vote majority and Seah Leong Peng in 2013 by a 7,313-vote majority.
In congratulating Mah on his win, Lim said everyone must learn from the by-election and move on.
He said Dyana might have lost but what is important is that she represents the "New Malaysia" to win the battle of tomorrow by taking the first step to inspire Malaysians towards a new politics of inclusivity to replace racial politics.
"The 12-day Teluk Intan by-election had been a titanic struggle between the new politics of the future versus the old politics of the past, the politics of Malaysia based on justice, freedom, accountability and good governance versus the politics of race,” he said. – June 1, 2014.
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