It’s hot and crowded in Selangor

K Pragalath
20 April 2013

PETALING JAYA: Selangor has 21 parliamentary seats and 56 state seats. Of these there is one hot parliamentary seat – Shah Alam – and a litany of crowded parliament and state seats.

Shah Alam will see PAS’ Khalid Samad defending his seat against BN’s direct candidate, Zulkifli Noordin.

Khalid had defeated Umno’s Abdul Aziz Shamsuddin by polling 33,356 votes against Aziz’s 24,042 votes in 2008.

There are five three-cornered fights in Pandan, Gombak, Hulu Selangor Kelana Jaya and Tanjung Karang parliamentary seats.

The Pandan parliamentary seat, which was MCA’s sole seat, witnessed a three-cornered fight involving MCA’s Gary Lim, PKR’s Rafizi Ramli and former incumbent Ong Tee Keat’s aide, Allan Tan Yew Leng.

In 2008, Ong defeated Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud of PKR with a majority of 2,961 votes.
In Gombak, PKR deputy president Azmin Ali is defending his seat against Umno’s Raman Ismail and another independent, Said Naza Abu Bakar.

In GE12, Azmin Ali won Gombak with a majority of 6,867 votes. He defeated Said Anuar Said Ahmad with 40,334 votes against Said Anuar’s 33,467 votes. Azmin is also defending his Bukit Antarabangsa state seat against Umno’s Nadzim Ibrahim.

The Tanjung Karang parliament seat also witnessed a three cornered fight involving incumbent Noh Omar of Umno, PAS’ Rashdi Deraman and an independent, Herman Tino.

In Kelana Jaya, independent Toh Sin Wah made it a three-cornered battle involving MCA’s Loh Seng Kok and PKR’s Wong Chen.

Similarly in Hulu Selangor, there is a three-cornered fight involving MIC’s P Kamalanathan, PKR’s Khalid Jaafar and former Masterskill College chief executive officer, Edmund Santara who is an independent.

In Kota Raja, PAS’ Siti Mariah Mahmud is defending her seat as three others are also vying for the seat. They are MIC’s S Murugesan, Human Rights Party’s pro-tem secretary-general P Uthayakumar and Azmi Idrus. Both Uthayakumar and Azmi are contesting as independents.

In Subang, there is a five-way battle involving PKR’s R Sivarasa, MIC’s A Prakash Rao, Berjasa’s Mohd Ismail and two independents – Nazamuddin Ferdoos and Edros Abdullah.
Selangor Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim who represented Ijok previously is facing a one on one battle with Nasarruddin M Zin of Umno in Pelabuhan Kelang.

Six corner fight in Kajang

There appears to be more crowd contesting at the state levels.
Batu Caves will witness a three-cornered fight where incumbent Amirudin Shari of PKR is defending the seat against MIC’s N Rawisandran and an independent G Suman.

In Semenyih, PKR fielded its Serdang division chief Hamidi Hasan against PSM secretary-general S Arutchelvan. Umno’s Johan Aziz is defending the seat.

In Teratai, there is a five-way battle after its incumbent Jenice Lee emerged as an independent to defend the seat. DAP is fielding Tiew Way Keng against Gerakan’s Liew Pok Boon. There are two other independents Lim Ah Chai and and Chin Kok Keong. Lee meanwhile has been sacked by DAP for contesting as an independent.

In Kota Damansara, incumbent Nasir Hashim of PSM is facing four other candidates. His major contender is Umno’s Halimahton Saadiah Borhan. PAS also fielded its candidate Redzuan Ismail here. There are three independents – A Suppayah, Halmi Omar and Edros Abdullah.

Sri Andalas incumbent Dr A Xavier Jayakumar is defending his seat from his challengers – T Mohan of MIC and independents – Uthayakumar, KS Kotappan and Hanafiah Yusof.

Kajang meanwhile will witness a six-cornered fight involving MCA’s Lee Ban Seng, PKR’s Lee Chin Cheh, Mohd Ismail of Berjasa and three other independents.

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