PAS candidate Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut won the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat, defeating Barisan Nasional’s Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh by 2,631 votes. Mohd Abdul Wahid garnered 32,883 votes while Wan Ahmad Farid had 30,252 votes.Independent candidate Azharudin Mamat had 193 votes and lost his deposit. With this win, the Opposition now has 82 seats in the Dewan Rakyat, of which belong to PAS.
Barisan, which held the seat before the previous MP Datuk Razali Ismail died last month triggering the by-election, now has 137 seats. There are also three Independent MPs. The results were announced by returning officer Wan Mustafa Wan Hassan at 9.30pm at Stadium Negeri which was the tallying centre yesterday.
The first ballot box was brought to the tallying centre at 6.30pm and the first result was announced 30 minutes later. Results were then announced stream by stream and Wan Farid initially led until at 8.20pm when the 81st box was announced. Mohd Abdul Wahid then led till the final result was announced.
The atmosphere in and around Stadium Negeri was calm. There were shouts of Allahuakbar when Mohd Abdul Wahid was declared the winner. There were 143 voting streams in 36 polling stations in the constituency. A total of 63,993 of the 80,229 registered voters cast their votes. The constituency has 1,302 postal voters.
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