A by-election was held on 8 September 2018 for the

Selangor State Legislative Assembly The Selangor State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Negeri Selangor) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Selangor. The State Assembly is composed of 56 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the sta ...

seat of

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. The seat became vacant after the death of the incumbent assemblyman, Eddie Ng Tien Chee on 20 July 2018 in a traffic accident on the

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. Eddie Ng was a member of the

Democratic Action Party The Democratic Action Party (abbreviation: DAP; ms, Parti Tindakan Demokratik; ; ta, ஜனநாயக செயல் கட்சி) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left social democracy, social democratic political party in Malaysia. ...

(DAP), a component party of the state ruling

Pakatan Harapan The Alliance of Hope ( ms, Pakatan Harapan; abbrev: PH; stylized as HARAPAN) is a Malaysian political coalition consisting of centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has been the r ...

(PH) coalition. This was the second

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in the Assembly since the May 2018 general election after Sungai Kandis, which held a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

in August 2018. The by-election will be held on the same day as the Seri Setia by-election. In the last 2018 general election, Ng defeated

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(BN)'s

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(MCA) candidate, Lim Chin Wah and Mohamad Ibrahim Ghazali of

Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party The Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS; ms, Parti Islam Se-Malaysia; ms, ڤرتي إسلام سمليسيا, label=Jawi alphabet, Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset) is an Islamist political party in Malaysia. As the party focused on Islamic fundamen ...

(PAS), with a vote majority of 35,538. The nomination day was on 18 August 2018. The by-election set for a straight fight between PH's DAP and BN's MCA. While PAS had decided not to contest to make way for the BN candidate, just liked in the case of the Sungai Kandis by-election a month earlier. Pakatan Harapan retained the seat with a larger share of vote.

Candidates

(

) Wong Siew Ki was serving as the Seri Kembangan assemblyman and Selangor state executive councillor

Ean Yong Hian Wah Ean Yong Hian Wah is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Seri Kembangan since March 2008. He served as Member of the Selangor State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Raky ...

’s political secretary and she was also Subang Jaya municipal councillor since 2016 then. She graduated in 2009 from the

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(UPM).

(

) Tan Chee Teong is a committee member in the Serdang

(MCA). He is a local of Balakong.

Electoral logo quirk

This by-election marks the first time Pakatan Harapan had used their just approved common logo in an election. The then-federal opposition coalition was unable to contest the 2018 general election with their logo due to the Registrar of Societies not approving their registration in time for the election. The registration was finally approved only after the election, which delivered the coalition to power. Conversely, the MCA will be using their own party logo for the first time since they joined Barisan Nasional in 1973. MCA candidates have normally used the BN common logo in elections up to the 2018 general election.

Result

DAP and Pakatan Harapan's Wong Siew Ki polled 22,058 votes to MCA and Barisan Nasional's Tan Chee Teong's 3,975 votes retaining the seat for DAP and Pakatan Harapan. Note: ¹Tan Chee Teong was a candidate of

(MCA), who had contested under the MCA banner instead of the BN banner.

Results based on polling district

PH won all polling districts and post and early votes.

Previous result

References

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