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Three-cornered fight for key by-

election in Selangor state

Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughni, who is also the secretary of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PRK) Religious
Understanding and Consolidation Bureau, is fielded by the PRK for a key by-election to be held next month in
Selangor. PHOTO: FACEBOOK/LATIF ZACK PKOM

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SHAH ALAM (BERNAMA, THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Three candidates will face off in
a key by-election to be held next month in Selangor, after they submitted their nomination papers
on Saturday (July 21).

The Sungai Kandis polls on Aug 4 is being closely watched as it will be the first by-election since
Barisan Nasional (BN) was ousted in the May 9 general election.
Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) is fielding Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughni, the headmaster of the Tahfiz
Al Fateh Jalan Kebun. He is also the secretary of the PKR Religious Understanding and
Consolidation Bureau.

Umno supreme council member Lokman Noor Adam is the BN candidate.

They are joined by independent candidate K. Murthy.

Analysts expect the by-election to yield clues on how Malay voters lean with regards to Umno and
the two-month-old Pakatan Harapan (PH) government led by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Sungai Kandis is a Malay-majority seat comprising of 72 per cent Malay voters, 16 per cent Indian
voters and 12 per cent Chinese voters.

The constituency has 51,230 registered voters.

Umno-led BN needs to retain, or improve on, its percentage of votes received in May so that it could
claim that the Malays remain solidly behind it as it tries to regroup as an opposition party.

The by-election was called following the death of the state assemblyman, Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei of
PKR, on July 2 due to lymphoma.

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The late Mat Shuhaimi defended his seat in the May general election with a 12,480-vote majority in
the four-cornered fight. He polled 23,998 votes, or 55.6 per cent of the 43,165 valid votes cast.

The Umno-BN candidate received 11,518 votes, or 26.7 per cent of valid votes.

A candidate from PAS got 7,573 votes while one from Parti Rakyat Malaysia polled just 76 votes.
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