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Sungkai

my.perak.n57 N57 · State assembly · Perak

N57 Sungkai is a state assembly seat in Perak, last contested in 2022. Sivanesan Achalingam (DAP) won the state election on 19 Nov 2022 with 9,549 votes, a majority of 5,238.

Results

State election, 19 Nov 2022

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Sivanesan Achalingam wonDAP9,54959.0%
Elango VadivelooMIC4,31126.6%
Thilak Raj GunasekaranPAS1,74410.8%
Mahhadee RamleeIndependent5883.6%

Majority 5,238. Turnout 70.6%: 16,502 ballots from 23,375 voters, 274 rejected.

State election, 09 May 2018

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Sivanesan Achalingam wonDAP, PH9,63172.6%
Elango VadivelooMIC, BN3,13823.6%
Appalasamy JetakiahDHPP, GS5053.8%

Majority 6,493. Turnout 79.2%: 13,560 ballots from 17,128 voters, 286 rejected.

Source: Election Commission of Malaysia (SPR). Figures from GE15 (November 2022) on are SPR's own, read from dashboard.spr.gov.my; earlier contests are SPR's published results as held in our records.

Canonical idmy.perak.n57
Current nameSungkai
Last seen2022
Total mentions6
Mentioned as
  • Sungkai3
  • adun sungkai1
  • dun sungkai1
  • kerusi dun sungkai1
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Covered by
  • Berita Harian1
  • MalaysiaGazette1
  • Malaysiakini1
  • New Straits Times1
  • The Star1
  • Utusan Malaysia1

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