2018 Sungai Kandis by-election

2018 Sungai Kandis by-election
4 August 2018
N49 Sungai Kandis seat in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly
  First party Second party Third party
  PH BN IND
Candidate Zawawi Mughni Lokman Noor Adam Murthy Krishnasamy
Party PKR UMNO Independent
Alliance PH BN
Popular vote 15,427 9,585 97
Percentage 60.72% 38.17% 0.39%
  N49 Sungai Kandis state constituency boundaries within the Kota Raja parliamentary constituency
Sungai Kandis assemblyman before election

Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei (died)
Pakatan Harapan (PKR)

 Elected Sungai Kandis assemblyman

Zawawi Ahmad Mughni
Pakatan Harapan (PKR)

A by-election was held on 4 August 2018 for the Selangor State Legislative Assembly seat of Sungai Kandis. The seat became vacant after the death of the former assemblyman, Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei from lymphatic cancer on 2 July 2018. Mat Shuhaimi was a member of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat, a component party of the state ruling Pakatan Harapan coalition. He won his seat after defeating BN, PAS and PRM candidates with a majority of 12,480 votes. It is the first by-election since the historic May 2018 general election that saw the first-ever change of federal government since independence.

The by-election was won by PKR's Zawawi Mughni amidst a drop in turnout.

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