Teluk Intan by-election, 2014

A by-election was held for the Dewan Rakyat parliamentary seat of Teluk Intan on 31 May 2014 following the nomination day on 19 May 2014.^[1]^[2] The seat was vacated after the death of the incumbent MP, Seah Leong Peng from bladder cancer in Kuala Lumpur on 1 May 2014.^[3] Seah was a lawmaker from the Democratic Action Party, a component party of Pakatan Rakyat.^[4] In the 2013 general election, he defeated Barisan Nasional candidate and Gerakan president Mah Siew Keong and an independent candidate by 7,313 votes.^[3]^[5]^[6]

The PR candidate in the by-election was DAP's Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, notable for her status as a rare Malay politician in the DAP.^[7] On 17 May 2014, BN announced that it would again field Mah Siew Keong.^[8] 60,349 voters were eligible to vote in the by-election.^[9]

Results

Mah Siew Keong won the election by a slim majority of 238 votes.^[10]^[11]

Dewan Rakyat: Teluk Intan by-election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Barisan Nasional	Mah Siew Keong	20,157	50.30	8.25
	Pakatan Rakyat	Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud	19,919	49.70	7.66
Rejected ballots			543	1.33	0.49
Majority			238	0.60	14.71
Turnout			40,668	67.39	13.04
	Barisan Nasional gain from Pakatan Rakyat		Swing	7.96

References

↑ "Teluk Intan by-election: Polling May 31, nomination May 19 &#124". FZ. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
↑ "May 31 set for Teluk Intan by-election". The Rakyat Post. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
1 2 "DAP lawmaker dies of cancer, says paper". The Malaysian Insider. 1 May 2014.
↑ "Teluk Intan MP's death puts another poll on DAP's plate". The Malay Mail Online. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
↑ "P76 Teluk Intan". undi.info.
↑ "DAP's Teluk Intan MP dies of cancer at age 48". Malaysian Chronicle. 1 May 2014.
↑ Eileen Ng (17 May 2014). "DAP names Dyana Sofya as Teluk Intan candidate". The Malaysian Insider.
↑ Audrey Dermawan (17 May 2014). "Teluk Intan: BN names Mah Siew Keong as its candidate". New Straits Times. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
↑ "Gerakan's Mah takes on Dyana Sofya in Teluk Intan by-election". The Malaysian Insider. 19 May 2014.
↑ "Mah recaptures Teluk Intan by 238 votes". Malaysiakini. 31 May 2014.
↑ "Penyata Pengundian Selepas Pengumuman Rasmi Undi" (PDF) (in Malay). Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Malaysia. 31 May 2014.

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