2014 Telok Intan by-election

2014 Telok Intan by-election
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Constituency of Teluk Intan
Turnout67.39% (Decrease 13.36%)
  First party Second party
 
Candidate Mah Siew Keong Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud
Party BN DAP
Popular vote 20,157 19,919
Percentage 50.30% 49.70%
Swing Increase 8.24% Decrease 7.66%
MP before election

Seah Leong Peng
DAP

Subsequent MP

Mah Siew Keong
BN

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 (DAP), a component party of Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition.[4] In the 2013 general election, he defeated Barisan Nasional(BN) 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]

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  2. ^ "May 31 set for Teluk Intan by-election". The Rakyat Post. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b "DAP lawmaker dies of cancer, says paper". The Malaysian Insider. 1 May 2014. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Teluk Intan MP's death puts another poll on DAP's plate". The Malay Mail Online. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  5. ^ "P76 Teluk Intan". undi.info. Archived from the original on 2014-05-06. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  6. ^ "DAP's Teluk Intan MP dies of cancer at age 48". Malaysian Chronicle. 1 May 2014.
  7. ^ Eileen Ng (17 May 2014). "DAP names Dyana Sofya as Teluk Intan candidate". The Malaysian Insider. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014.
  8. ^ Audrey Dermawan (17 May 2014). "Teluk Intan: BN names Mah Siew Keong as its candidate". New Straits Times. Archived from the original on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Gerakan's Mah takes on Dyana Sofya in Teluk Intan by-election". The Malaysian Insider. 19 May 2014. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.