KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 — The Election Commission said a re-delineation of electoral boundaries can only be done by 2026, despite the country seeing a sudden 40 per cent, its deputy chairman Azmi Sharom explained that this is due to the Federal Constitution that only allows the process to happen every eight years.
This comes as starting from January 16, around 5.8 million new voters will enter the electoral roll following the full implementation of the automatic voters’ registration system. “Perlis, for example, has a much lesser number of voters when compared to megacities like Petaling Jaya. But Perlis has three parliamentary seats, [while Petaling Jaya has only one],” he added.
To create a balance, Azmi said the redrawing of the boundaries should start from within each state having approximately the same size of constituencies.
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