LIVE: Tg Piai polls close as counting gets underway

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Some trivia

• The Tanjung Piai federal constituency was created during the 2004 general election. Its first MP was then MCA president Ong Ka Ting.
  
• The Tanjung Piai federal constituency was carved out from its neighbouring Pontian federal seat. The two seats collectively form the Pontian district.
  
• From 2008 until 2018, MCA's Wee Jeck Seng served as the MP. He was unseated by the late Md Farid Md Rafik of Bersatu in 2018. It was the first time BN failed to retain the seat.
  
• The Tanjung Piai seat comprises two state seats, namely Pekan Nenas and Kukup. Umno won Kukup while DAP took Pekan Nenas in the last general election.
  
• Tanjung Piai is known as the southernmost tip of the Asian continent.

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Voting ends

5.30pm - Polls for the Tanjung Piai by-election has officially closed.

This is a contest between BN's Wee Jeck Seng, Pakatan Harapan's Karmaine Sardini, Berjasa's Badhrulhisham Abdul Aziz, Gerakan's Wendy Subramaniam and independent candidates Ang Chuan Lock and Faridah Aryani Abd Ghaffar.

The campaign began on Nov 2 and lasted two weeks.

The by-election was called after the incumbent MP, Bersatu's Md Farid Md Rafik, passed away from a heart attack in September, just three weeks before his 43rd birthday.

In the last general election, Md Farid had won the seat by a slim 524-vote majority after garnering 21,255 votes to Wee's 20,731 votes. Nordin Othman, who contested under PAS banner, won 2,962 votes.

PAS is not contesting in this by-election and has backed BN.

There are 52,986 eligible voters in this by-election. - Mkini