GE14 | In every ceramah PKR’s Port Dickson candidate Danyal Balagopal Abdullah attends, the English-educated converted Muslim will use his not-so-fluent Malay to introduce himself, telling the voters why he joined politics after serving the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) for 38 years.

In this general election (GE14), BN is confident of recapturing the Port Dickson parliamentary seat, previously named as Teluk Kemang, from PKR in Negeri Sembilan.

PKR has filed former rear admiral Danyal to defend its only parliamentary foothold in the state, and the military voters will be the key voters in this election.

Half-an-hour’s drive from the state's capital Seremban, Port Dickson is called "army town" and here the Army Basic Training Centre (Pusada) is located.

It is one of the five parliamentary seats with highest numbers of early voters, the others being Setiawangsa, Lumut, Tangga Batu and Lembah Pantai.

Port Dickson is a mixed constituency with 75,212 voters. Its ethnic breakdown is as follows: 43 percent Malay, 33 percent Chinese, 22 percent Indians, and two percent from the other ethnic groups...