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IPOH, March 14 — Perak DAP chairman Nga Kor Ming and advisor Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham retained their posts at the state DAP party elections today.
Nga, when announcing the newly-elected committee, said that this year’s election result was a convincing and formidable majority.
“We are humbled by the mandate given by the delegates,” said the three-term assemblyman.
In the party election, Nga’s team made a clean sweep after all 15 of them got more than 1,000 votes each.
Nga, who is Teluk Intan MP and Aulong assemblyman, ranked first in the list by garnering 1,228 votes while his cousin Ngeh, the Beruas MP, ranked sixth with 1,216 votes.
Batu Gajah MP V. Sivakumar shared the first ranking with Nga as he received the same number of votes.
Tebing Tinggi assemblyman Abdul Aziz Bari ranked third with 1,224 votes followed by Sungkai A. Sivanesan with 1,223 votes while Pantai Remis assemblyman Wong May Ing ranked fifth with 1,220 votes.
Others who made the top 15 were Chaw Kam Foon (1,206), Wong Kah Woh (1,189), Chong Zhe Min (1,182), Ong Boon Piow (1,181), Ko Chung Sen (1,176), Lee Chuan How (1,170), Loh Sze Yee (1,163), Cheah Poh Hian (1,145) and Teh Kok Lim (1,102).
Kampar MP Thomas Su and Ipoh Barat MP M. Kulasegaran, who were leading the challenge for new faces in the state line-up, polled 550 and 540 votes respectively.
Other candidates from Su’s team only managed to garner less than 600 votes.
The result was announced by Tanah Rata assemblyman Chiong Yoke Kong, who was the returning officer for the polls.
A total of 1,731 delegates voted in this year’s party election.
Below is the Perak DAP executive committee line-up for the 2021-2024 term:
Adviser: Ngeh Koo Ham
Chairman: Nga Kor Ming
Deputy chairman: V. Sivakumar
Vice-chairmen: Abdul Aziz Bari and A. Sivanesan
Secretary: Wong Kah Woh
Assistant secretary: Ong Boon Piow
Treasurer: Howard Lee
Assistant treasurer: Dr Ko Chung Sen
Organising secretary: Teh Kok Lim
Assistant organising secretaries 1: Steven Chow
Assistant organising secretaries 2: Woo Kar Leong
Publicity secretary: Chong Zhemin
Assistant publicity secretary: Jenny Choi Tsi Jen
Committee members:
1. Teoh Yeo Cherng
2. Woo Kar Leong
3. Jenny Choi Tsi Jen
4. Nga Hock Cheng
5. Ong Seng Guan