The Tanjung Piai parliamentary by-election will be held on November 16, Election Commission (EC) chairman Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun announced today.

Nomination of candidates is set for November 2 while early polls will be on November 12, he added.
He said overseas voting is open for registration from today to October 31.
The Tanjung Piai parliamentary seat fell vacant following the September 21 sudden death of its incumbent Datuk Dr Md Farid Md Rafik, 42, from a heart attack.
Farid, who was also the deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, had won the seat after he narrowly defeated Barisan Nasional’s Wee Jeck Seng by a wafer-thin majority of 524 votes. A third candidate, PAS’ Nordin Othman, had secured 2,962 votes.
Tanjung Piai is a mixed-seat constituency with 57% Malay, 42% Chinese and 1% Indian voters.

The seat has been traditionally contested by MCA.
The upcoming contest would be a litmus test for both Pakatan Harapan and the Umno-PAS alliance amid race and religious issues dominating the Malaysian political landscape.
Azhar said the Dewan Jubli Intan Sultan Ibrahim in Pontian, Johor will be used as the centre for the nomination and vote tallying.

As per the recent by-elections, voting will be from 8am to 5.30pm.
The Tanjung Piai by-election is the ninth by-election after last year’s general election and the first since the move to lower voting age to 18.