Sulaiman Sulong | |
Honorific-Suffix: | AMT MLA |
Native Name: | سليمان بن سولوڠ |
Birth Date: | Sulaiman bin Sulong |
Birth Place: | Terengganu, Malaysia |
Office: | Deputy Member of the Terengganu State Executive Council |
Alongside: | Ab Razak Ibrahim |
1Blankname: | Menteri Besar |
1Namedata: | Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar |
2Blankname: | Member |
2Namedata: | Ariffin Deraman |
Term Start: | 16 May 2018 |
Constituency: | Pengkalan Berangan |
Constituency Am3: | Pengkalan Berangan |
Assembly3: | Terengganu State Legislative |
Term Start3: | 9 May 2018 |
Predecessor3: | A. Latiff Awang (BN–UMNO) |
Majority3: | 490 (2018) 8,276 (2023) |
Citizenship: | Malaysian |
Party: | Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) |
Otherparty: | Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) Perikatan Nasional (PN) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Teacher |
Alma Mater: | Al-Azhar University |
Spouse: | Hafizah Abdul Rahman |
Children: | 6 |
Sulaiman bin Sulong is a Malaysian politician and teacher who has served as the Deputy Member of the Terengganu State Executive Council in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar and Member Ariffin Deraman as well as Member of the Terengganu State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Pengkalan Berangan since May 2018. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the PN and formerly Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) coalitions.[1]
In the 2018 Terengganu state election, Sulaiman made his electoral debut after being nominated by PAS to contest for the Pengkalan Berangan seat. He won the seat and was elected as the Pengkalan Berangan MLA for the first term.
On 16 May 2018 after PAS took over the state administration from BN after PAS defeated BN in the 2018 state election, Sulaiman was appointed as Terengganu Deputy EXCO Member in charge of Tourism, Culture and Information Technology alongside another Deputy EXCO Member Ab Razak Ibrahim by Menteri Besar Ahmad Samsuri to deputise for EXCO Member Ariffin.
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||||
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2013 | N20 Pengkalan Berangan | Sulaiman Sulong (PAS) | 9,829 | 45.70% | A. Latiff Awang (UMNO) | 11,677 | 54.30% | 21,776 | 1,848 | 90.60% | ||||||
2018 | Sulaiman Sulong (PAS) | 11,896 | 48.66% | A. Latiff Awang (UMNO) | 11,406 | 46.66% | 24,855 | 490 | 88.10% | |||||||
Aidi Ahmad (BERSATU) | 1,145 | 4.68% | ||||||||||||||
2023 | Sulaiman Sulong (PAS) | 17,946 | align=right | 64.98% | Nik Dir Nik Wan Ku (UMNO) | 9,670 | align=right | 35.02% | 27,616 | 8,276 | 78.35% |