GEORGE TOWN, Dec 6 — Players can win at badminton by scoring the same points in every match but Malaysia’s lopsided constituencies meant the goalposts moved unfairly from one election to the next, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said today.

Firing back at Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s attempt at the party’s general assembly yesterday to frame the Election 2013 outcome as a badminton match, Lim took the opportunity to target the unequal distribution of voters that could see one constituency hold over 100,000 voters while another, some 10,000.

“We can win one constituency with 160 points, but in Putrajaya, we only need 17 points to win,” he illustrated.

He then said if one were to play a badminton match this way, even top badminton players like Lin Dan and Datuk Lee Chong Wei would be unable to win.

The Penang lawmaker (picture) said the general elections was not conducted to respect the “one person one vote” principle so it was not as fair as a badminton match where all sets are decided by the same match points of 21.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister Najib maintained that Barisan Nasional (BN) won the popular vote in nine states compared to Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) four, and challenged the view that Pakatan Rakyat took 51 per cent of total votes to the ruling coalition’s 47 per cent.

Najib had said that if the election could be seen as a three-set badminton game between him and opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the latter was claiming that he had won based on the total points accumulated rather than the number of sets.

“In reality, a badminton match is judged in terms of who wins two out of three sets,” Najib reportedly said at the opening of the Umno general assembly at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur.

Today, Lim insisted that PR undeniably received 51 per cent of the popular vote and that BN was a minority government.