{"id":1586,"date":"2008-03-09T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T14:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2009-03-16T17:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T09:57:26","slug":"1581-of-expected-versus-actual-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"[1581] Of expected versus actual seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to March 8, it was expected that the opposition would gain at <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1544\" target=\"_blank\">most 90 seats<\/a> and comparatively, the three parties has successfully garnered 82 parliamentary seats now. This is an amazingly accurate estimation and it clearly indicates that it is not a mere speculation. I am certainly surprised at the accuracy of the estimation \u2014  <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1578\">I had indirectly dismissed it<\/a> \u2014  given that DAP, PAS and PKR shocked everybody and even themselves by performing so well.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated seat distribution among the three parties however are less accurate. DAP now controlled 28 seats compared to the expectation of between 30 to 40 seats; PAS gained 23 versus &#8220;at least 40&#8221; and PKR has 31 seats compared to the synthesized expectation of 10 seats.<\/p>\n<p>Among the three, only PKR did better than expectation. So good in fact that they are now the opposition leader in the Parliament! I take this as an vindication of a theory that <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1541\">only PKR has the ability to seriously challenge BN<\/a> on its own among the big three opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. The Big Three. Evolution from a <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=320\">near-extinction<\/a> to being the opposition leader in the national assembly is no easy feat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to March 8, it was expected that the opposition would gain at most 90 seats and comparatively, the three parties has successfully garnered 82 parliamentary seats now. This is an amazingly accurate estimation and it clearly indicates that it is not a mere speculation. I am certainly surprised at the accuracy of the estimation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[323],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-malaysian-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}