EC forfeits RM425,000 in candidacy deposits from Johor election

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KUALA LUMPUR – As the dust of the Johor election settles, some 85 hopefuls who failed to garner the minimum number of votes will see their election deposits forfeited amounting to almost half a million ringgit.

Each candidate who failed to obtain at least 1/8 or 12.5% of the total number of votes will see their RM5,000 candidacy deposits absorbed by the Election Commission.

Pejuang loses RM210,000 in forfeited deposits

In the case of Parti Pejuang, all 42 of its candidates fielded at the election failed to obtain the minimum number of votes and will have their deposits amounting to RM210,000 forfeited.

This includes their current Sri Gading MP Datuk Sharuddin Md Salleh who lost in the race for the Panti seat to Barisan Nasional’s (BN) Hahasrin Hashim.

Hahasrin won the seat with 12,599 votes with a majority of 5,854 votes. Sharuddin only managed 334 votes. The constituency has 38,408 registered voters.

Another unwanted record set by Pejuang at the recent polls was how one of the candidates received the lowest number of votes across all 56 seats.

Their Bukit Naning candidate Datuk Ibrahim Shafee only managed a measly 86 votes in a constituency of 22,594 voters.

The seat went to BN’s Datuk Mohd Fuad who received 5,437 votes.

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