BN Recaptures Nenggiri Seat With Convincing Majority

GUA MUSANG, Barisan Nasional (BN) recaptured the Nenggiri state seat when its candidate Mohd Azmawi Fikri Abdul Ghani won by a big majority of 3,352 votes in today’s by-election.

The Kelantan UMNO Youth chief polled 9,091 votes to beat PAS candidate Mohd Rizwadi Ismail, representing Perikatan Nasional (PN), who obtained 5,739 votes.

The results were announced by returning officer Nik Raisnan Daud at the vote-tallying centre at Dewan Perdana, Kompleks Perdana, Gua Musang District Council here tonight.

BN held the seat for four consecutive terms after it was first contested in 2004 but lost it to PN’s Mohd Azizi Abu Naim in the Kelantan state election in August last year.

Mohd Azizi, who contested under the PAS logo, defeated BN’s Ab Aziz Yusoff by a majority of 810 votes then.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency

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