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Supporting Research
ElectionData.MY aspires to be a trusted source of Malaysian election data—so that citizens can use it with confidence. To earn that trust, every single dataset used on this site has been open-sourced and subjected to rigorous expert scrutiny, via the process of peer review. This page documents the academic-grade research and data curation powering the site.
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The Malaysian Election Corpus: Federal & State-Level Election Results from 1955 to 2025
Thevananthan (2025)
Nature (Scientific Data)

The Malaysian Election Corpus: Electoral Maps and Cartograms from 1954 to 2025
Thevananthan and Chacko (2026)
Preprint (arXiv)
Coming Soon
The Malaysian Election Corpus: Pseudonymised, Linked Voter Rolls from 2008 to 2025
Thevananthan et. al (2026)
Coming soon (ETA: End-Feb 2026)
Coming Soon
The Malaysian Election Corpus: Polling Centre and Queue-Level Results from 2008 to 2025
Thevananthan and Koo (2026)
Coming soon (ETA: End-Feb 2026)