Sungai Petani, Kedah | Bukit Selambau | Selambau Hill

Bukit Selambau ( Selambau Hill )
Bukit Selambau town is known for its state constituency by-election polling on 7th, April 2009 which had created the first ever record in Malaysian history for having the most number of candidates (15 altogether, with 13 of them independent candidates) contesting in a single seat. The opposition party's candidate, PKR's S.Manikumar scored a solid win in the state seat against BN's Datuk S. Ganesan. It also has a record-breaking 15-choice ballot A4 paper size in the electoral history of Kedah. It is located about 26 km from Sungai Petani town and sandwiched by hectares of rubber trees and oil palm estates. The backwater, small town has no banks, no post office and no shops of selling ready-made clothes. The folks in Bukit Selambau have to travel 12 km to the nearest town, Kuala Ketil for their daily business needs.



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