The open election data Malaysia deserves
Information on elections should be easy to find, and easy to use. In 2026, Malaysians should not have to rely on PDFs and scattered sources to deeply understand their own democracy. ElectionData.MY exists to fill that gap. It is the public face of the Malaysian Election Corpus (MECo): a civic and academic effort to digitise, clean, and open-source data on every Malaysian election from 1955 to the present day.
Every candidate, every party, every result—in a single site built to make Malaysian election data genuinely accessible.
Core principles
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Independent and Neutral
ElectionData.MY has no political affiliation, institutional funding, or financial patronage influencing how data is curated or presented. It does not accept financial contributions, provide paid consultation, or engage in any conduct (including in-site advertising) that compromises its integrity as a compiler of high-quality election data.
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Open and Accessible
Everything on the site is dedicated to the public domain (CC0): free forever, for any use, at the highest possible granularity. But openness alone is not enough—for many, technical complexity is just another kind of closed. ElectionData.MY strives to make data accessible to everyone: researchers, journalists, developers, and most importantly, voters.
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No Compromise on Quality
Building this site has required manually digitising decades-old results, tracing historical boundary maps by hand, and spending countless hours on painstaking validation. ElectionData.MY operates with the view that obsessing over quality and completeness is worth it—so Malaysia has a source which people (and AI) can rely on.
A standing offer to SPR
ElectionData.MY demonstrates that election data can be made open in a seamless and cost-efficient way. In an ideal world, SPR itself would already be performing this function, particularly given that it is the owner and official source of all election data.
However, institutional change takes time. In the spirit of nation-building, I therefore make an unconditional offer to SPR: either to help SPR build and maintain an official open data platform from the ground up, or to partner directly with SPR so that ElectionData.MY becomes its official open data provider. Either way, the offer is entirely pro bono. No strings attached, and no expiry.
The long-term hope is simple: that this platform becomes unnecessary—or at most, complementary to an official site.
Until then, the work continues.
Thevesh Theva
Curator
ElectionData.MY