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Kuala Besut

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N01 Kuala Besut is a state assembly seat in Terengganu, last contested in 2023. Azbi Salleh (PAS, PN) won the state election on 12 Aug 2023 with 11,496 votes, a majority of 4,119.

Results

State election, 12 Aug 2023

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Azbi Salleh wonPAS, PN11,49660.9%
Tengku Zaihan Che Ku Abd RahmanUMNO, BN7,37739.1%

Majority 4,119.

State election, 09 May 2018

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Tengku Zaihan Che Ku Abd Rahman wonUMNO, BN8,12647.2%
Azbi SallehPAS, GS7,98346.4%
Che Ku Hashim Che Ku MatPPBM, PH1,0956.4%

Majority 143. Turnout 83.8%: 17,401 ballots from 20,762 voters, 197 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.

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