2019 Sandakan by-election

The 2019 Sandakan by-election was a by-election held on 11 May 2019 for the Dewan Rakyat seat of Sandakan. It was called following the death of incumbent, Wong Tien Fatt on 28 March 2019. Wong was a 2-term Member of Parliament for Sandakan since 2013. He was a member and Sabah state party chairman (2015-2019) of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.

2019 Sandakan by-election

11 May 2019

P186 Sandakan seat in the Dewan Rakyat
  First party Second party Third party
  DAP PBS IND
Candidate Vivian Wong Shir Yee Linda Tsen Thau Lin Hamzah Abdullah
Party DAP PBS Independent
Alliance PH-WARISAN-UPKO GBS-SAPP-PPRS
Popular vote 16,012 4,491 788
Percentage 75.02% 21.04% 3.69%

  Fourth party Fifth party
  IND IND
Candidate Chia Siew Yung Sulaiman Abdul Samat
Party Independent Independent
Popular vote 178 126
Percentage 0.83% 0.59%

P186 Sandakan federal constituency border and its corresponding state assembly seats.

MP before election

Wong Tien Fatt (died)
Pakatan Harapan (DAP)

Elected MP

Vivian Wong Shir Yee
Pakatan Harapan (DAP)

Vivian Wong Shir Yee of DAP won the by-election by 16,012 votes out of the 21,595 votes cast with a bigger majority of 11,521 votes despite at a lower turnout rate at 54.44%.

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