DAP wins Sibu by 398 votes

By Pushparani Thilaganathan and B Nantha Kumar, Free Malaysia Today

UPDATED 11PM DAP’s Wong Ho Leng today wrestled the Sibu parliamentary seat from Barisan Nasional with a majority of 398 votes, announced Returning Officer Wong See Meng at about 11pm.

Wong garnered 18,845 votes while his rival Robert Lau Hui Yew from BN managed to get 18,447 votes and independent Narawi Haron got 234 votes.

The inclusion of the postal votes has drastically reduced DAP’s margin which at one point stood at almost 2,500 votes. The results from the postal votes hugely favoured  BN – 2,287 out of 2,537.