Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Dato' Seri Haji |
Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah | |
Birth Name: | Ahmad Husni bin Mohamad Hanadzlah |
Birth Date: | 21 July 1951 |
Birth Place: | Perak, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
Office1: | Minister of Finance II |
Term Start1: | 10 April 2009 |
Term End1: | 27 June 2016 |
Monarch1: | Abdul Halim |
Predecessor1: | Nor Mohamed Yakcop |
Successor1: | Johari Abdul Ghani |
Constituency1: | Tambun |
Office2: | Deputy Minister of Finance I |
Term Start2: | 19 March 2008 |
Term End2: | 9 April 2009 |
Monarch2: | Mizan Zainal Abidin |
Primeminister2: | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi |
Predecessor2: | Awang Adek Hussin |
Successor2: | Awang Adek Hussin |
Constituency2: | Tambun |
Office3: | Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry I |
Term Start3: | 27 March 2004 |
Term End3: | 18 March 2008 |
Monarch3: | Sirajuddin Mizan Zainal Abidin |
Primeminister3: | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi |
Minister3: | Rafidah Aziz |
Predecessor3: | Kerk Choo Ting |
Successor3: | Liew Vui Keong |
Constituency3: | Tambun |
Constituency Mp4: | Tambun |
Parliament4: | Malaysian |
Term Start4: | 25 April 1995 |
Term End4: | 9 May 2018 |
Majority4: | 26,639 (1995) 7,084 (1999) 17,360 (2004) 5,386 (2008) 9,325 (2013) |
Office5: | Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat |
Subterm5: | 1995–2018 |
Suboffice5: | Barisan Nasional |
Citizenship: | Malaysian |
Party: | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) |
Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional (BN) |
Occupation: | Politician, economist |
Spouse: | Fauziah Kamarudin |
Alma Mater: | University of Malaya |
Ahmad Husni bin Mohamad Hanadzlah (Jawi: Malay: {{Script|Arab|أحمد حسني بن محمد حنظلة; born 21 July 1951) is a former Second Minister of Finance of Malaysia.[1] He was appointed on 10 April 2009 when Najib Razak became Prime Minister. He was also the Member of Parliament for Tambun for five terms from April 1995 to May 2018.[2] He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a major component party in the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
Husni was educated at the University of Malaya. He entered the government sector in 1984 as general manager of the Perak State Islamic Economic Corporation.[3] Ahmad Husni was a Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry and Deputy Finance Minister before becoming a minister.[3]
In the 1999 Malaysian general election, Election Commission (EC) declared Ahmad Husni has won the Tambun parliamentary seat with a majority of 7,084. In the 2004 Malaysian general election, Ahmad Husni defeated Dr Khairuddin Abd Malek from PAS with a majority of 17,360. In the 2008 Malaysian general election, Ahmad Husni once again defended the Tambun parliamentary seat with 27,942 votes. His PKR opponent was the former Dermawan assemblyman Mohamad Asri Othman, who received 22,556 votes. The turnout percentage is 75%. The total of rejected ballots are 927.
In October 2016, Husni being the only MP from the incumbent government to submit a question on 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal (1MDB).[4]
On 3 November 2016, Husni with 2 former cabinet ministers, Muhyiddin Yassin and Shafie Apdal were convicted of the Sedition Act 1948 for breaching and debating debt-laden companies, 1MDB.
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
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1995 | P060 Tambun, Perak | (UMNO) | 33,224 | 83.46% | Abd Rahman Md Nur (S46) | 6,585 | 16.54% | 42,732 | 26,639 | 72.96% | ||||
1999 | (UMNO) | 24,595 | 58.41% | Khairuddin Abd Malik (PAS) | 17,511 | 41.59% | 44,832 | 7,084 | 70.74% | |||||
2004 | P063 Tambun, Perak | (UMNO) | 31,824 | 68.75% | Khairuddin Abd Malik (PAS) | 9,950 | 31.25% | 47,571 | 17,360 | 72.94% | ||||
2008 | (UMNO) | 27,942 | 55.33% | Mohd Asri Othman (PKR) | 22,556 | 44.67% | 51,844 | 5,386 | 75.17% | |||||
2013 | (UMNO) | 42,093 | 56.23% | Siti Aishah Shaik Ahmad (PKR) | 32,768 | 43.77% | 76,275 | 9,325 | 85.29% | |||||
2018 | Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah (UMNO) | 33,341 | 38.35% | (BERSATU) | 38,661 | 44.46% | 88,920 | 5,320 | 82.51% | |||||
Muhd Zulkifli Mohd Zakaria (PAS) | 14,948 | 17.19% | ||||||||||||