GENERAL ELECTIONS (GE) 2013: A CRITICAL REVIEW ON VOTING PATTERNS OF MALAY ETHNIC

General Election (GE) in 2013 saw the voting patterns vary by ethnicity. Based on statistical analysis of the regression model calculated from the results of the election in 2013, for the votes of Malay ethnic, the BN obtained 63.3 per cent compared to 36.7 per cent of Pakatan Rakyat (PR). Despite the turnover of parliamentary seats for the BN decreased 7 seats (140 in GE 2008) to 133 seats that failed to get a majority of 2/3 and got only 46.5 percent of the popular vote, but the popular vote in favor of Malay ethnic as a whole to support the BN more than 50 percent of 63 percent. Thus, it is the purpose of article to analyze the pattern of voting and voter support factor based on location and class in the election in 2013. Based on the results of the GE 2013 on the parliamentary, State Legislative, District Voting and Polling Channel; as well as field observations, for overall show that BN continues to dominate the rural Malays and the Malay voters of the working class, but the pattern varies according to the location of the state. Influential PR in the urban Malays and Malay voters upper and middle class/educated. The both conditions (BN and PR dominate in different regions and classes) as sources of political information, individual and family economic conditions, political development, factors issues, leadership, political ideology, historical factors and sociological factors such as family, age, gender, education level, income, ethnicity, religion and class. Thus, the study of Malay ethnic voting pattern can be a guide to the political parties to plan strategies to capture the dominant ethnic Malay vote in the country in the face of the next GE-14. Malay ethnic voting pattern can also be associated with the three approaches used in studying the voting behavior of the sociological approach, party identification approach and the rational choice approach.