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Padang Besar

my.perlis.p1 P001 · Parliament · Perlis

P001 Padang Besar is a Parliament seat in Perlis, last contested in 2022. Rushdan Rusmi (PAS, PN) won GE15 on 19 Nov 2022 with 24,267 votes, a majority of 12,514.

Results

GE15, 19 Nov 2022

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rushdan Rusmi wonPAS, PN24,26753.6%
Zahida Zarik KhanUMNO, BN11,75326.0%
Mohamad Saad @ YahayaAMANAH, PH7,08515.6%
Zahidi Zainul AbidinIndependent1,9394.3%
Ko Chu LiangWARISAN2440.5%

Majority 12,514. Turnout 76.5%: 46,059 ballots from 60,192 voters, 693 rejected.

GE14, 09 May 2018

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Zahidi Zainul Abidin wonUMNO, BN15,03241.2%
Izizam IbrahimPPBM, PH13,59437.2%
Mokhtar SenikPAS, GS7,87421.6%

Majority 1,438. Turnout 80.9%: 37,280 ballots from 46,096 voters, 780 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.perlis.p1
Current namePadang Besar
Former namesKangar — also matched, at lower confidence
Last seen2022
Total mentions23
Mentioned as
  • Padang Besar15
  • parlimen padang besar7
  • kerusi padang besar1
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Covered by
  • Utusan Malaysia5
  • Berita Harian4
  • Free Malaysia Today3
  • Malaysiakini2
  • Sinar Harian2
  • Astro Awani1
…and 6 more outlets.

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