Pilihan Raya dalam Politik Kelantan 1990 - 2013: Antara Parti, Pemimpin dan Isu (Elections In Kelantan 1990-2013: Candidates, Parties and Issues)

Abstract

Politics and elections in Kelantan are often regarded as unique. There are several attempts made by scholars to analyse the political uniqueness of that state, but in the end up by concluding that Kelantan politics is unique. The popular beliefs of the uniqueness of politics in Kelantan are largely due to the fact that the Kelantanese continuingly supporting Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS), particularly since 1990s, while all of the other states in Peninsular Malaysia before the 2008 General Elections were supporting Barisan Nasional (BN). Thus this article is written, with a modest purpose, to study and unravel the uniqueness of elections and politics in Kelantan. Based on the data collected from the Malaysian Election Commission and several interviews, the electoral districts in Kelantan are divided into three categories that are; the PAS strongholds, BN constituencies and mixed constituencies. In each category, the general voting behaviours of the voters are identified and compared with several theories of votings. But due to our limitation of resource, time and space, the data compared could only be made from the 1990 General Election to 2013 General Election.