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SABAH SURVEYS | A total of 275 of the 447 candidates who participated in Sabah’s state elections yesterday lost their deposits after failing to obtain the requirement of one-eighth or 12.5 percent of the total votes counted.
Another 172 candidates lost but managed to retain their deposits.
The largest number of candidates to lose their deposits in a single constituency was eight in the 11-corner contest for the Bengkoka seat.
Those who lost their deposits were Jose Modsinupu (PCS), Samuil Mopun (PBS), Sotijin Juhui (Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah), Rita Cham (Parti Perpaduan Rakyat Sabah), Omar Jalun (Usno), as well as three independents Francol Tiying, Mary ME. [email protected] Ambros and Akian Ah Kiew.
Meanwhile, two key leaders of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), namely Honorary Life President Tan Sri Chong Kah Kiat and its President Datuk Chin Su Phin, lost their deposits for the Inanam and Api-Api seats, respectively.
Chong lost in a 10-corner fight in which six other candidates also lost their deposits. The six are Terence Tsen Kim Katt (Parti Kerjasama Anak Negeri), Mohd Hardy Abdullah @ Zoro Yukon (Usno), Regina Lim @ How (PCS), Goh Fah Shun (Gagasan), as well as two independents Ngui Kuang Kee @George Ngui and Achmad Noorasyrull Noortaip.
For the nine-corner fight for the Api-Api seat, six others besides Chin also lost their deposits. They are Lo Yau Foh (PPRS), Chong Tze Kiun (Gagasan), Pang Yuk Ming (PCS), as well as independent candidates Marcel Jude, Sim Sie Hong and Ng Chun Sua.
Sabah’s election also saw DAP’s Phoong Jin Zhe garnering the highest number of votes, 15,510, for the Luyang seat en route to defeating five challengers, who lost their deposits.
Warisan’s Rina Jainal won with the smallest majority of just 10 votes against Chaya Sulaiman, who got 2,824 votes in the seven-corner fight, in which the other five lost their deposits.
Meanwhile, 3,884 ballots were not returned while 14,056 votes were rejected out of the overall total of 749,083 or 66.61 percent of registered voters who came out to cast their ballots.
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