Penang State Legislative Assembly

Penang State Legislative Assembly Malay: Dewan Undangan Negeri Pulau Pinang
13th Penang State Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	11 July 1959
Leadership
Yang di-Pertua Negeri	Abdul Rahman Abbas Since 1 May 2001
Speaker	Law Choo Kiang, PH–PKR Since 28 June 2013
Deputy Speaker	Maktar Shapee, PH–PKR Since 28 June 2013
Chief Minister	Lim Guan Eng, PH–DAP Since 11 March 2008
Opposition Leader	Jahara Hamid, BN–UMNO Since 28 June 2013
Structure
Seats	40 Quorum: 13 Simple majority: 21 Two-thirds majority: 27

Political groups	(As of 24 February 2016) Government Pakatan Harapan (29) EXCO Members: 11 Backbenchers: 18 DAP (19) PKR (10) Opposition Barisan Nasional (10) UMNO (10) PAS (1) Independent (0) Vacant (0)
Committees	5 Public Accounts Committee Rights and Privileges Committee Assembly Committee Rules of Proceedings Committee Constitutional Committee
Elections
Voting system	Plurality: First-past-the-post (40 single-member constituencies)
Last election	5 May 2013
Next election	on or before 28 August 2018
Meeting place

Penang State Assembly Building, Light Street, George Town, Penang
Website
dun.penang.gov.my

The Penang State Legislative Assembly (Malay: Dewan Undangan Negeri Pulau Pinang) is the state legislature of the Malaysian state of Penang. It is a unicameral institution, consisting of a total of 40 lawmakers representing single-member constituencies throughout the state.

The unicameral state legislature, whose members are called state assemblymen, convenes at the neoclassical Penang State Assembly Building at Light Street in the state capital, George Town. Since 2008, Assembly proceedings have been broadcast live on the internet.

It has 40 seats, 29 of which are held by the Pakatan Rakyat compromising the Democratic Action Party which has 19 seats, nine by Parti Keadilan Rakyat and one by Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party defeating the Barisan Nasional with only 11 seats since the 2008 general elections. It was a sharp reversal from the 38 seats held by BN in the 2004 elections and only the second time since Independence that the state fell into non-BN control, the last being in 1969.

Current composition

For a complete list of members, see Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (2013-) § Penang.


29	1	10
Pakatan Harapan	PAS	Barisan Nasional

Seating arrangement*

Sungai Pinang	Kebun Bunga	Pengkalan Kota	Bukit Tengah	Seri Delima	Tanjong Bunga	Paya Terubong	Bagan Dalam
		Permatang Pasir	Penanti	Berapit	Air Itam

Komtar							Sungai Bakap
Pulau Tikus	Sungai Dua					Padang Lalang	Seberang Jaya
Jawi	Permatang Berangan					Batu Maung	Datok Keramat
Machang Bubuk	Penaga					Padang Kota	Sungai Puyu
Batu Uban	Sungai Acheh					Perai	Batu Lancang
Bayan Lepas	Pinang Tunggal					Pantai Jerejak	Bagan Jermal
Telok Bahang	Pulau Betong					State Legal Advisor	State Financial Officer
Bertam	Telok Ayer Tawar	State Legislative Assembly Secretary				Air Putih	State Secretary
			Speaker Bukit Tambun

The seating arrangement is viewable at the official website.^[1]

Role

The Penang State Assembly's main function is to enact legislation and policies relating to the State List and Joint List as defined in the Federal Constitution. Its members also provide oversight on the state's executive branch of government, ensuring the state departments and agencies enforce the aforementioned legislation.^[2] Debates in the Assembly are presided over by the Speaker.

The leader of the party or coalition with a majority in the Assembly is appointed Chief Minister by the Governor of Penang. The Chief Minister heads the state's executive, known as the State Executive Council, whose members are also drawn from the Assembly.

Committees

The State Assembly also consists of committees to handle administrative matters. The committees include:^[3]

Public Accounts Committee
Committee on Privileges
House Committee
Standing Orders Committee
Constitution Committee

Speakers Roll of Honour

The following is the Speaker of the Penang State Legislative Assembly Roll of Honour, since 1959:^[4]

No.	Speaker	Term start	Term end
1	Sulaiman Ahmad	6 January 1959	1 April 1964
1	Sulaiman Ahmad	25 April 1964	19 March 1969
2	Harun Sirat	10 May 1969	31 July 1974
2	Harun Sirat	24 August 1974	16 June 1978
3	Hassan Md. Noh	8 July 1978	29 March 1982
4	Teh Ewe Lim	22 April 1982	19 July 1986
5	Ooi Ean Kwong	3 August 1986	5 October 1990
6	Abdul Rahman Abbas	21 October 1990	4 April 1995
7	Yahaya Abdul Hamid	25 April 1995	10 November 1999
		29 November 1999	2 March 2004
		21 March 2004	12 February 2008
8	Abdul Halim Hussain	8 March 2008	27 June 2013
9	Law Choo Kiang	28 June 2013	Incumbent

Penang state election, 2013

5 May 2013 (2013-05-05)

All 40 seats in the Penang State Legislative Assembly 21 seats needed for a majority

Turnout	86.93%
	First party	Second party

Leader	Lim Guan Eng	Teng Chang Yeow
Party	Pakatan Rakyat	Barisan Nasional
Leader since	()	()
Leader's seat	Air Puteh (ran in Bagan, won)	Bukit Tengah (lost contest)
Last election	29 seats, 58.90%	11 seats, 40.96%
Seats before	29	11
Seats won	30	10
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	490,978	233,246
Percentage	67.53%	32.09%
Swing	8.63%	8.87%

Chief Minister before election

Lim Guan Eng
Pakatan Rakyat

Chief Minister-designate

Lim Guan Eng
Pakatan Rakyat

**Summary of the 5 May 2013 Penang State Legislative Assembly election results**
Party				Candidates	Vote		Seats
Party				Candidates	Votes	%	Won	%	+/–
	Democratic Action Party		DAP	19			19	47.50	0
	National Front^{[lower-alpha 1]}		BN	40			10	25.00	-1
		United Malays National Organisation	UMNO	15			10	25.00	-1
		Malaysian Chinese Association	MCA	10			0	0.00	0
		Malaysian People's Movement Party	Gerakan	13			0	0.00	0
		Malaysian Indian Congress	MIC	2			0	0.00	0
	People's Justice Party		PKR	16			10	25.00	+1
	Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party		PAS	6			1	2.50	0
	Love Malaysia Party		PCM	3			0	0.00	0
	Homeland Human's Wellbeing Party		KITA	1			0	0.00	0
	Independents		IND	18			0	0.00	0
Valid votes
Invalid/blank votes
Total votes (voter turnout: %)					'	100.00	40	100.00	0
Did not vote
Registered voters					'
Voting age population (aged 21 years and above)					'
Penang's population					'
Source:

↑ Contested using dacing election symbol on the ballot papers.

Penang state election, 2008

For a complete list of members, see Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (2008-2013) § Penang.

**Summary of the 8 March 2008 Penang State Legislative Assembly election results**
Party				Candidates	Vote		Seats
Party				Candidates	Votes	%	Won	%	+/–
	Democratic Action Party		DAP	19			19	47.50	+18
	National Front^{[lower-alpha 1]}		BN	40			11	27.50	-27
		United Malays National Organisation	UMNO	15			11	27.50	-3
		Malaysian Chinese Association	MCA	10			0	0.00	-9
		Malaysian People's Movement Party	Gerakan	13			0	0.00	-13
		Malaysian Indian Congress	MIC	2			0	0.00	-2
	People's Justice Party		PKR	16			9	22.50	+9
	Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party		PAS	5			1	0.00	0
	Independents		IND	3			0	0.00	0
Valid votes
Invalid/blank votes
Total votes (voter turnout: %)					'	100.00	40	100.00	0
Did not vote
Registered voters					'
Voting age population (aged 21 years and above)					'
Penang's population					'
Source:

↑ Contested using dacing election symbol on the ballot papers.

References

↑ http://dun.penang.gov.my/images/v25/SUSUNAN%20TEMPAT%20DUDUK%20DEWAN%20UNDANGAN%20NEGERI%20KETIGA%20BELAS%202013.pdf
↑ Role and Membership of the State Assembly Penang State Assembly Portal
↑ List of State Assembly Committees Penang State Assembly Portal
↑ Senarai Yang di-Pertua Dewan Undangan Negeri

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City suburbs	Air Itam Bagan Ajam Bagan Dalam Bagan Jermal Bagan Luar Balik Pulau Batu Ferringhi Batu Kawan Batu Maung Batu Uban Bayan Lepas Bukit Gelugor Bukit Jambul Bukit Mertajam Bukit Tambun Bukit Tengah Bukit Minyak Butterworth Ceruk Tok Kun Gelugor Jawi Jelutong Juru Mak Mandin Machang Bubok Kepala Batas Nibong Tebal Pantai Acheh Paya Terubong Penaga Penanti Permatang Pauh Perai Pinang Tunggal Relau Seberang Jaya Simpang Ampat Sungai Ara Sungai Bakap Sungai Dua Sungai Jawi Sungai Nibong Tanjung Bungah Tanjung Tokong Tasek Gelugor Teluk Air Tawar Teluk Bahang Teluk Kumbar Valdor

Residential hubs	Bandar Baru Air Itam Bandar Cassia Batu Lanchang Bayan Baru Green Lane Minden Heights Mount Erskine Seri Tanjung Pinang Taman Tun Sardon

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