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Tapah

my.perak.p72 P072 · Parliament · Perak

P072 Tapah is a Parliament seat in Perak, last contested in 2022. Saravanan Murugan (MIC, BN) won GE15 on 19 Nov 2022 with 18,398 votes, a majority of 5,064.

Results

GE15, 19 Nov 2022

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Saravanan Murugan wonMIC, BN18,39841.4%
Saraswathy KandasamiPKR, PH13,33430.0%
Muhammad Yadzan MohammadBERSATU, PN12,11527.2%
Mior Nor Haidir SuhaimiPEJUANG, GTA3350.8%
Mohamed Akbar Sherrif Ali YasinWARISAN2000.4%
Kathiravan MuruganIndependent990.2%

Majority 5,064. Turnout 73.5%: 45,537 ballots from 61,946 voters, 966 rejected.

GE14, 09 May 2018

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Saravanan Murugan wonMIC, BN16,08644.5%
Mohamed Azni Mohamed AliPPBM, PH15,47242.8%
Norazli MusaPAS, GS4,61612.8%

Majority 614. Turnout 78.4%: 36,934 ballots from 47,128 voters, 760 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.p72
Current nameTapah
Former namesBagan Datok — also matched, at lower confidence
Last seen2022
Total mentions15
Mentioned as
  • Tapah14
  • parlimen tapah1
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Covered by
  • Astro Awani2
  • Buletin TV32
  • Sinar Harian2
  • Utusan Malaysia2
  • facebook.com2
  • Berita Harian1
…and 4 more outlets.

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