YOU DA MAN, SALLEH!
Another solid win for Pakatan Rakyat!
IT'S OFFICIAL: PAS WINS PERMATANG PASIR
Malaysiakini | Aug 25, 2009 | 6:34pm
PAS has won the Permatang Pasir state seat by-election in Penang today with a majority of 4,451 votes.
The Election Commission announced that PAS candidate 52-year-old candidate Mohd Salleh polled 9,618 votes while BN's Mohd Rohaizat Othman, 38, garnered 5,067.
Voter turnout had also decreased this time around to 73 percent which the Election Commission chief Abdul Aziz Yusof blamed on the A(H1N1) outbreak. In the previous election, the turnout was 82.6 percent. The by-election in the heart of Anwar Ibrahim's parliamentary stronghold of Permatang Pauh was held following the death of PAS state assemblyperson Mohd Hamdan Abd Rahman on July 31st.
This is the eighth by-election since the March 8 polls last year. With this victory, Pakatan Rakyat has taken seven with BN only emerging victorious in Sarawak's Batang Ai contest.
