Sungai Besar, Kuala Kangsar by-elections on June 18 — EC

PUTRAJAYA: The by-elections for the parliamentary constituencies of Kuala Kangsar, Perak and Sungai Besar, Selangor will be held simultaneously on June 18, said Election Commission (EC) chairman Datuk Seri Mohd Hashim Abdullah.

He said that the commission, at a special meeting yesterday, also fixed the nomination date for both by-elections on June 5, while early voting would be on June 14.

Mohd Hashim said the Kuala Kangsar parliamentary constituency had 32,949 registered voters involving normal voters (32,632), early voters (312) and absent voters overseas (five).

The Sungai Besar parliamentary constituency, meanwhile, had 42,655 registered voters comprising normal voters (42,365), early voters (286) and absent voters overseas (four).

“The electoral roll for both election divisions will be on sale beginning June 2, while the budget estimate to run both by-elections is RM2.7 million,” he said at a media conference on both by-elections, here yesterday.

The vacancy for the P.093 Sungai Besar and P.067 Kuala Kangsar seats followed the death of incumbents Datuk Noriah Kasnon, who was also Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, and Datuk Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar Wan Ahmad respectively in the helicopter tragedy in Sebuyau, Sarawak, on May 5.

In the 13th General Election (GE13), Noriah won the Sungai Besar parliamentary seat beating the PAS candidate, Mohamed Salleh M.Hussin with a 399-vote majority, while Wan Mohammad Khair-il won the Kuala Kangsar parliamentary seat by beating PAS candidate Khalil Idham Lim Abdullah and Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim (Independent) with a majority of 1,082 votes.

Noriah and Wan Mohammad Khair-il were among six victims who died when a Eurocopter AS350 helicopter crashed near Sebuyau on May 5 during a flight from Betong to Kuching.

Also killed in the crash were Noriah’s husband Asmuni Abdullah, her bodyguard Ahmad Sobri Harun and secretary-general of the ministry Datuk Dr Sundaran Annamalai, as well as helicopter pilot Capt Rudolf Rex Ragas. — Bernama

 

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