Mahkota polls: Thumping victory for BN

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Barisan Nasional's Syed Hussien Syed Abdullah has officially won the Mahkota by-election with a 20,648-vote majority.  Returning officer Azurawati Wahid made the announcement at 9.11pm at Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail, Kluang on Saturday (Sept 28).  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4and5kyv   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Barisan Nasional's Syed Hussein Syed Abdullah has officially won the Makota Bayh election

00:06with a 20,648-vote majority.

00:09Returning Officer Azurawati Wahid made the announcement

00:13at Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail in Keluang on Saturday.

00:17Majority 20,648.

00:24I hereby declare that Syed Hussein bin Syed Abdullah

00:31of Barisan Nasional has been elected as a member of Dewan Tunku Ibrahim.

00:3940-year-old Syed Hussein won the seat after garnering 27,995 votes,

00:46while Perikatan Nationals candidate Muhammad Haizan Jafar received 7,347 votes.

00:53According to the Election Commission,

00:55only 53.84% out of the 66,318 Makota voters

01:02turned out to cast their ballots in the Bayh election.

01:05This is a slight drop from the 55.7% voter turnout

01:10during the Johor state election in March 2022.

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