Big win for PH in Pulai and comfortable PH win in Simpang Jeram

Big win for PH in Pulai and comfortable PH win in Simpang Jeram

PAKATAN Harapan (PH) has retained its two-thirds majority in Parliament with a big win in the Pulai parliamentary seat in Johor today.

Meanwhile, in the Simpang Jeram state seat, PH won by a comfortable margin.

PH candidate Suhaizan Kayat is leading by a large margin after more than 80% of the ballot papers were counted at the vote tallying centre. The unofficial result of Pulai after 228 out of 297 channels were counted was that PH got 36,703 votes.

Meanwhile, Perikatan Nasional (PN) got 24,035 votes. Majority 12,668.

In the Simpang Jeram state assembly, the PH candidate won with 13,844 votes while PN came in second with 10,330 votes. The independent candidate S Jeganathan won 311 votes.

A Twitter user said this is the seventh time that Suhaizan has tried his luck at elections.

Simpang Jeram was PN’s best bet to grab a seat in the Johor by-election and that is because the seat is near PN chief Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s home base in Pagoh. The seat also has a higher Malay voter demographic at almost 52%.

The low turnout does not appear to have hampered PH’s performance in Pulai after all.

In the latest updates from Malaysia, the Election Commission (EC) has reported a lower voter turnout at the Pulai parliamentary by-election compared to the Simpang Jeram state seat, citing heavy rain as a contributing factor.

Pulai saw a voter turnout of 46% and there was a voter turnout of 60%.

Amanah president Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu and Johor party chief Aminolhuda Hassan joined supporters at Dataran Taman Dahlia in Perling, where the party was streaming the latest unofficial by-election results. – Sept 9, 2023