LIVE | OFFICIAL: DAP retains Sandakan, Harapan breaks losing streak - Vivian Wong (DAP) wins Sandakan By-Election by 11,521 majority votes. Read more
- PBS president Maximus Ongkili congratulates DAP's Vivian Wong on her victory.
“PBS put up a good fight but in the end, we could not overcome the might we were facing. God bless Sandakan, Sabah and Malaysia," he adds.- Najib Abdul Razak's visit to Sandakan yesterday had indeed given DAP a scare, according to its secretary-general Lim Guan Eng. If DAP captures these two voting districts, it will mean they will make a clean sweep of all 17 voting districts.
DAP appears to have secured 58.8 percent of the postal and early votes, a marked improvement for the coalition when compared to the Rantau and Semenyih by-elections where postal and early votes mostly went to the opposition. Unofficially, DAP is leading the count by a wide margin of 8,766 votes with 77.83 percent of the vote share. Meanwhile, independent candidates Hamzah Abdullah, Sulaiman Abdul Samat and Chia Siew Yung are looking set to lose their deposit.6.23pm -
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