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Support by Generation

It was rather di cult to extract vote-shares via polling-stream information for
Sarawak to enable us to estimate voters’ age groups and how they voted, as only
urban polling stations there had multiple polling streams. In rural areas, which
predominate in Sarawak, most voters in any particular community voted in a
single polling stream or ballot box. is limitation was especially germane to
the Bumiputera community, most of whom voted in rural polling stations.
In order to give a avour of possible voting patterns, we chose ve polling
districts where voters from di erent ethnic backgrounds voted (Table 2.13).
While this information cannot be generalized for the whole state, it is intended
to provide some insight as to how voters from di erent age groups and ethnic
backgrounds made their choices.

Table 2.13 Vote shares in selected Sarawak parliamentary polling districts
by generation, 2018

Parliament Petra Jaya Bandar Puncak Selangau Lawas
Kuching Borneo
Polling districts Patinggi Ali Bazaar Bunuk Bawan Tuma
Largest ethnicity Malay Chinese Bidayuh Iban Orang Ulu
(Lun Bawang)
Ethnic % 91.75 98.69 87.94 82.49 75.04
Average age
21–40
BN 59.9 12.6 19.0 27.8 36.4
PH 33.2 87.4 80.4 72.2 63.6
Other 6.9 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.0
41–60
BN 69.9 11.2 24.3 27.5 40.6
PH 26.6 88.8 75.0 72.5 59.0
Other 3.5 0.0 0.7 0.0 0.4
60+
BN 81.7 22.5 31.6 28.1 54.9
PH 16.6 77.5 65.4 71.9 45.1
Other 1.7 0.0 3.0 0.0 0.0

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