BN keeps Cameron Highlands, unofficial results show

The Malaysian Insight The Malaysian Insight Updated 5 years ago · Published on 26 Jan 2019 7:10PM · 7 Comments

Barisan Nasional supporters celebrating as the pact takes the lead in the Cameron Highlands by-election vote tallying in Tanah Rata today. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Hasnoor Hussain, January 26, 2019.

BARISAN Nasional has retained the Cameron Highlands seat with its direct candidate, Ramli Mohd Nor.

With more than half of the 89 streams counted, Ramli took an unassailable lead over Pakatan Harapan’s M. Manogaran, who is contesting here for the third time.

As at 6.56pm, the Election Commission’s unofficial results at the Tanah Rata tallying centre has Ramli winning 11,381 votes compared with Manogaran’s 7,182, giving the retired policeman a 4,199-vote majority. Independent candidates Sallehuddin has 295 votes while Wong has 226 votes.

The estimated turnout for the by-election is about 68% of the 32,008 voters, making the midway point at around 11,000 votes.

PH had been hoping to wrest the Orang Asli vote after the seat’s results in the 14th general election were nullified by the court over bribery by the previous MP, C. Sivarraajh, leading to this by-election.

Sivarraajh of MIC celebrated BN’s win in the by-election, saying it was “proof that there was no element of bribery as stated by the (election) court. 

“(The Orang Asli) are staunch BN supporters. All the witnesses brought by (PH candidate) Mano(garan) are PH supporters. God is great even though I have been persecuted,” he tweeted.

Umno’s Khairy Jamaluddin tweeted his thanks to Cameron Highlands voters, saying “this is the first step of a journey of a million steps to regain the people’s trust”. – January 26, 2019.

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  • Expected. PH has too many boo boos during this by election.

    Posted 5 years ago by Gerald Lau · Reply

  • PH please take stock of the results. Cracks are appearing all over PH in less than one year. Ecrl announcements by different ministers reflect really badly on PH government. Please buck up asap as honeymoon period is over. Dont disappoint the Rakyat.

    Posted 5 years ago by Derrick Tan · Reply

  • Some people can be fooled over and over again.

    Posted 5 years ago by Xuz ZG · Reply

  • Even the Chinese cannot save your skin this time, PH. Time to reform and work harder for the people. Your performance in the past 9 months have been very disappointing. Dont blame the CH voters. Blame yourself!

    Posted 5 years ago by Lily Cheong · Reply

  • Its Ramli and not Rosli....Pls edit.

    Posted 5 years ago by [email protected] · Reply

  • PH. wake up. PKR too much infighting. UMNo as usual play racial game...

    Posted 5 years ago by . . · Reply

  • PH wake up . Dont threaten SMI by giving tax amnesty and than say if dont comply will do a field audit and charge penalty of 80 to 300 percent. If government cash flows are bad than you should collect from previous administration for which one of the reasons you were elected

    Posted 5 years ago by Ravindran Krishnasamy · Reply