Over 400 candidates to contest Sabah polls

KOTA KINABALU: A total of 447 candidates from various parties will contest in the 16th Sabah election.

Election Commission chairman Abdul Ghani Salleh said these candidates are from 16 parties and also comprised 56 independents. He said Parti Cinta Sabah is the sole party to contest all 73 state seats followed by Warisan with 53, United Sabah National Organisation , LDP , Barisan Nasional , Perikatan Nasional , Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah , Parti Perpaduan Rakyat Sabah , PBS and Upko 12, among others.

He said there are multi-cornered fights in all the seats, the lowest being three-way battles and highest with 11 candidates vying for one seat which is the Bengkoka seat in the Kudat parliamentary constituency . “The youngest candidate is 22-years-old standing in Tandek while the oldest is 75 contesting the Bugaya seat in the Semporna parliamentary constituency,” he told reporters here today.

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