PAKATAN Harapan candidate Pang Sock Tao won the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election today with a 3869-vote majority.
Returning officer Yuhanas Auree Kamaruddin said Pang received 14,000. Perikatan Nasional’s Khairul Azhari Saut received 10,131 votes, Independent Nyau Ke Xin (188) and Parti Rakyat Malaysia Hafizah Zainuddin (152).
Voter turnout was 61.51%, one of the lowest in the by-elections held after the 2022 general election.
The KKB constituency in Selangor has 40,226 registered voters.
Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Shari Amirudin Shari said the results showed support had grown for the unity government.
"The people's decision today is a signal that they don't want an agent of division to represent them,” he said in a statement after the results were announced.
"Instead the people want unity and solidarity as the base for the economic advancement of the state and country that will lift the status and quality of life of all."
PN deputy chairman Datuk Seri Ahmad Faizal Azumu attributed his side's defeat to the failure of voters working out of state to return home to cast their ballots.
The seat fell vacant following the death of three-term DAP assemblyman Lee Kee Hiong on March 21.
In the Selangor elections last year, Lee beat candidates from PN, PRM and Muda by a majority of 4,119 votes. – May 11, 2024.
