00:00I declare that Abang Abidin from PN has been elected as a member of the National Assembly for Bahagian and Raya Negeri and 20 Sungai Bakap.
00:15PN has retained the Sungai Bakap state seat in Penang with a 4,267-vote majority.
00:24According to the Election Commission, PN's Abidin Ismail obtained 14,489 votes while Pakatan Harapan's Juhari Arifin secured 10,222 votes.
00:37Election observers said the voter turnout rate, capped at 63.45%, was lower than expected. A total of 39,279 people were eligible to vote.
00:50The seat fell vacant following the death of Assemblyman Nur Zamri Latif in May.
00:55Zamri, who was the Nebungtabal Pass Division Chief, defeated PH candidate Nur Hidayah J. Rose at the state election last year with a majority of 1,563 votes.
