BN's Mohamad Alamin leads in Kimanis by-election
Published on: Saturday, January 18, 2020
PAPAR: Barisan Nasional's (BN) candidate Datuk Mohamad Alamin is leading in the Kimanis parliamentary by-election two-cornered fight against Datuk Karim Bujang of Parti Warisan Sabah (Warisan).
BN leads with 4,351 votes against Warisan's 3,885 as at 6.25pm, with 29 boxes of votes already counted out of the total of 70 boxes.
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The Kimanis constituency has 29,664 voters, comprising 29,654 regular voters, nine early voters and one overseas absentee voter.
The gender breakdown is 14,800 men and 14,864 women. Bongawan has 16,273 voters and Membakut 13,391. There are 20 polling centres with 69 channels.
The by-election was necessitated by the Election Court’s nullification on Aug. 16, 2019, of former MP Datuk Seri Anifah Aman’s win in Kimanis in the 14th General Election (GE14) in May 2018.
Anifah, who won the seat on a BN ticket, quit Umno in September 2018 to become an independent MP. He held the seat for 20 years after winning it for the first time in 1999.
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In GE14, Anifah had polled 11,942 votes to win by a 156-vote majority. Karim had secured 11,786 votes and a third candidate, Jaafar Ismail of Parti Harapan Rakyat Sabah, had obtained 1,300 votes.
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On Dec 2, 2019, the Federal Court dismissed Anifah’s appeal to set aside the Election Court decision nullifying his victory. On Jan 3, this year, the Federal Court dismissed Anifah’s final legal challenge to stop the by-election.
