31 May 2014
TELUK INTAN: Barisan Nasional wins back the Teluk Intan parliamentary seat after losing it to DAP in two previous general elections namely in 2008 and 2013.
Datuk Mah Siew Keong wrestled back the seat for the coalition with a majority of 238 votes after garnering 20,157 votes, defeating DAP’s greenhorn candidate, Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud.
The 27-year-old law graduate, who until recently served as the political aide to DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, garnered only 19,919 votes. There were a total of 543 rejected votes.
Mah who is also Gerakan President previously lost the seat to late Seah Leong Peng of DAP who died of cancer on May 1.
In the 2013 general election, Seah won with a majority of 7,313 votes after garnering 27,399 votes defeating Mah who garnered 20,086 votes. Independent candidate K.Moralingam only received 279 votes. Total voter turnout then was 80 per cent.
However, for this by-election, total voter turnout was below the Election Commission’s projection of at least 70 per cent voter turnout.
Only 67.4 per cent or 39,850 of the 59,927 ordinary voters turned up to vote when polling closed at 35 polling centres for the Teluk Intan Parliamentary by-election at 5 pm.
DAP’s over confidence and the Dyana factor had failed to impress voters to win the Teluk Intan parliamentary seat.
Political pundits also attributed BN’s success to the return of support from the Chinese community and frustrations towards DAP for not being able to bring much progress to Teluk Intan in the last six years.
The result was announced by returning officer Datuk Ibrahim Ahmad at Sekolah Menengah Abdul Rahman Talib, which had been turned into the by-election’s vote tallying centre, about 9pm.
The election process went on smoothly although there were rumours of commotions between supporters of both political sides at some polling centres.
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