Official: Harapan retains Balakong with increased vote share

BALAKONG POLLS | Pakatan Harapan's Wong Siew Ki has won the Balakong by-election with a majority of 18,533 votes.

Wong bagged 22,508 votes, while MCA's Tan Chee Teong received 3,975 votes.

While MCA managed to retain its deposit today - unlike on May 9 - its vote percentage did not increase significantly, going up by only 4.1 percent to 15 percent.

This is despite PAS campaigning for MCA in the by-election. PAS had previously bagged 11.6 percent of the votes in Balakong during the 14th general election.

DAP's vote share, meanwhile, increased from 77.5 percent to 85 percent.

The by-election was called following the death of incumbent Eddie Ng in a road accident on July 20.

In the 14th general election, Ng defeated BN candidate Lim Chin Wah and PAS' Mohamad Ibrahim Ghazali by a majority of 35,538 votes. - Mkini