Malaysia needs more women politicians


ACCORDING to the Election Commission, for Malaysia’s 15th General Election (GE15) on Nov 19, there are actually slightly more women voters than male voters: there are 10,622,161 female voters and 10,551,487 male voters.

Even during GE14 in 2018, women made up 50.44% of the total number of registered voters.

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