Twenty-nine years ago, in September 1995, the voters of Bagan saved the DAP and democracy in Malaysia after the DAP suffered its worst electoral defeat in three decades in the 1995 general elections with the government coalition winning a five-sixth majority in Parliament.

In the 1995 General Election in April 1995, P. Patto won with a 118-vote majority. However he passed away three months later causing a by-election being held. Read the rest of this entry »