Pakatan Harapan candidate wins seat in Malaysia’s Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election
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Ms Pang Sock Tao has won the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election with a 3,869 vote majority.
PHOTO: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
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PETALING JAYA - Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate Pang Sock Tao has won the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election with a 3,869 vote majority, said the Malaysian Election Commission (EC).
According to the EC, Ms Pang, who is from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), polled 14,000 votes against the opposition Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition’s Khairul Azhari Saut, who garnered 10,131 votes.
Another two candidates – Parti Rakyat Malaysia’s Hafizah Zainudin and independent candidate Nyau Ke Xin – lost their deposits after getting 152 and 188 votes respectively.
The winner was announced by EC returning officer Yuhanas Auree Kamaruddin on the night of May 11.
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim congratulated PH and Ms Pang on their victory.
“(DAP secretary-general) Anthony Loke, congratulations on winning the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election... (it is) a fight to victory... (and) now we defend that win,” national news agency Bernama quoted Datuk Seri Anwar as saying.
PN deputy chairman Ahmad Faizal Azumu said the pact accepted the defeat with an open heart.
However, he claimed that support for PN rose in certain voting district centres in the seat in the state of Selangor.
With a 61.5 per cent voter turnout rate, it is estimated 24,652 out of 40,226 voters in the constituency cast their votes. THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK
