BN retains Pengkalan Batu with 6,358-vote majority
BN candidate Siti Aisyah Mahmood secured 11,836 votes in a four-cornered contest.
YASMIN ROSLI
SHAH ALAM- Barisan Nasional (BN) has retained the N.15 Pengkalan Batu state seat in the 16th Melaka state election with a majority of 6,358 votes.
According to the official election results, BN candidate Siti Aisyah Mahmood secured 11,836 votes in a four-cornered contest.
Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate Jason Tze-Xi Nathan came in second with 5,478 votes, followed by Bersatu candidate Datuk Norhizam Hassan Baktee with 876 votes and Parti Bersama Malaysia (Bersama) candidate Goh Han Koon with 618 votes.
Siti Aisyah was fielded as BN's new candidate after the coalition dropped incumbent assemblywoman Datuk Kalsom Noordin from the contest.
Norhizam, who previously represented Pengkalan Batu from 2018 to 2021, also contested the seat in an attempt to return to the state assembly.
BN had won the seat by a majority of just 131 votes in the 2021 state election, compared with its 6,358-vote majority this time.
The 16th Melaka state election was held on Nov 14, 2026 following the dissolution of the 28-seat Melaka State Legislative Assembly on Sept 23, with nomination day held on Oct 31 and early voting conducted on Nov 10.
In the previous state election in 2021, BN secured 21 seats, followed by PH with five and Perikatan Nasional (PN) with two.
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