Mahfuz Omar

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Mahfuz bin Omar (Jawi: محفوظ بن عمر; born 25 August 1957) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Chairman of the Farmers' Organisation Authority (FOA) since May 2023.[1] He served as the Deputy Minister of Human Resources in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister M. Kulasegaran from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 as well as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pokok Sena from November 1999 to March 2004 and again from March 2008 to November 2022. He is a member of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of the PH coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), then a component party of formerly the Gagasan Sejahtera (GS), Pakatan Rakyat (PR), Barisan Alternatif (BA) and Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU) coalitions. He has also served as the Vice President of AMANAH since September 2021. He served as the State Chairman of PH of Kedah from 2022 to February 2025.[2]

Political career

Mahfuz was the head of Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) youth wing from 1999 to 2003. Under his leadership, PAS Youth was a progressive voice within PAS, advocating for the party to join the Barisan Alternatif coalition with the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and the People's Justice Party (PKR).[3] Mahfuz's leadership of PAS was the culmination of a long period of his activism within the party. He and a group of other PAS politicians were detained under the Internal Security Act in 1985, a period of intense and often violent hostility between PAS and the governing United Malays National Organisation (UMNO).[4] He was briefly jailed again in 2000 for participating in an unauthorised protest rally against an Israeli cricket team visiting Malaysia.[5]

Mahfuz was elected to Parliament in 1999 but was defeated in the 2004 election by Abdul Rahman Ibrahim of the governing Barisan Nasional coalition. Mahfuz won back the seat at the 2008 election with a majority of 5,371 votes. He was re-elected in 2013, while all other PAS parliamentary candidates in Kedah were defeated.

On 30 December 2017, Mahfuz had announced his decision to quit PAS which he had joined 34 years ago on 12 March 1984.[6] On 15 March 2018, Mahfuz declared he had joined AMANAH, a splinter party of PAS.[7]

In the 2018 general election, Mahfuz again retained the Pokok Sena seat but as the AMANAH of Pakatan Harapan candidate for the first time.

Election results

Penang State Legislative Assembly[8]
Year Constituency Candidate Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
1986 N01 Penaga style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) 2,312 35.65% style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Abdul Razak Ismail (UMNO) 4,174 64.35% 6,738 1,862 75.71%
Parliament of Malaysia[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Year Constituency Candidate Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
1990 P041 Permatang Pauh style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) 7,643 24.31% style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Anwar Ibrahim (UMNO) 23,793 75.69% 31,740 16,150 78.32%
1995 P008 Pokok Sena style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) 20,667 44.98% style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Wan Hanafiah Wan Mat Saman (UMNO) 25,285 55.02% 49,494 4,618 77.45%
1999 style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) 27,466 53.55% style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Wan Hanafiah Wan Mat Saman (UMNO) 23,829 46.45% 52,779 3,637 77.47%
2004 style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) 22,440 43.00% style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (UMNO) 29,740 57.00% 53,035 7,300 80.27%
2008 style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) 29,687 55.34% style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (UMNO) 23,956 44.66% 55,318 5,731 79.44%
2013 style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) 36,198 52.87% style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Shahlan Ismail (UMNO) 32,263 47.13% 69,524 3,935 86.14%
2018 rowspan=2 Template:Party shading/Keadilan | Mahfuz Omar (AMANAH) 28,959 40.93% style="background:Template:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party/meta/shading" | Muhamad Radhi Mat Din (PAS) 23,401 33.08% 71,910 5,558 82.76%
style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Said Ali Said Rastan (UMNO) 18,390 25.99%
2022 rowspan=3 Template:Party shading/PH | Mahfuz Omar (AMANAH) 20,524 23.34% style="background:Template:Party color" | Ahmad Yahaya (PAS) 52,275 59.44% 88,976 31,751 76.58%
style="background:Template:Barisan Nasional/meta/shading" | Noran Zamini Jamaluddin (UMNO) 14,523 16.51%
Template:Party shading/Sabah Heritage Party | Noraini Md Salleh (WARISAN) 622 0.71%
Kedah State Legislative Assembly[15][14]
Year Constituency Candidate Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
2023 N14 Alor Mengkudu Template:Party shading/PH | Mahfuz Omar (AMANAH) 8,832 31.81% style="background:Template:Party color" | Muhamad Radhi Mat Din (PAS) 18,936 68.19% 27,885 10,104 72.70%

Honours

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