WHAT THIS IS

8bitic turns Malaysian politicians into 8-bit character cards. Underneath the pixels there are only two kinds of facts: what happened at elections, and what they said on record. Both always link to a source.

RULES WE FOLLOW

• Every election row links to a results source. Rows marked CHECK were entered from secondary sources and are still being verified against the Election Commission (SPR).
• Every statement is a neutral paraphrase with a link to where it was said. Exact words are quoted when available.
• If something happened after a statement, we list it underneath with its own link. We do not write verdicts like "kept" or "broken". You decide.
• All stats are computed from the records on the page. Nobody types in a score.
• Everyone gets the same template, the same formulas and the same sprite style.

REPORT AN ERROR

Found a wrong number, a misquote or a dead link? Write to [CORRECTIONS EMAIL] with the page link and the correct source. Entries whose source does not support them are fixed or removed.

WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM

• Election results come from the Malaysian Election Corpus (MECo) by Thevesh Thevananthan, an open (CC0) candidate-level database of every federal, state and by-election since 1955, published in Scientific Data (2025). github.com/Thevesh/paper-meco-results. Majorities are computed from the vote counts in that corpus.
• The current roster of Dewan Rakyat members and their present party labels follows Wikipedia's list for the 15th Parliament, checked against the corpus by seat.
• Attendance is counted from the "Kehadiran Ahli-Ahli Parlimen" list at the front of each sitting day's Hansard on parlimen.gov.my. A member is counted present if listed as present that day. The Hansard does not record how long anyone stayed, and the copies used are the unrevised ones published first. Ministers who are senators are not MPs and are not counted.
• Statements are entered by hand, one at a time, each with its link.

PORTRAITS

Portraits are original pixel sprites assembled from a small set of parts (body, outfit, headwear, glasses, beard, cane). They are caricatures in the friendly sense and are not derived from any photograph. Most MPs currently have an automatically generated placeholder in their party colour; recognisable details are added by hand over time.