Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Dato' Paduka Haji |
Ahmad Kassim | |
Birth Date: | 24 March 1963 |
Birth Place: | Kedah, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
Constituency Mp2: | Kuala Kedah |
Parliament2: | Malaysian |
Term Start2: | 8 March 2008 |
Term End2: | 5 May 2013 |
Majority2: | 7,018 (2008) |
Predecessor2: | Hashim Jahaya (BN–UMNO) |
Successor2: | Azman Ismail (PR–PKR) |
Office: | Speaker of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly |
1Blankname: | Menteri Besar |
1Namedata: | Mukhriz Mahathir (2018–2020) Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor (2020) |
Term Start: | 4 July 2018 |
Term End: | 15 August 2020 |
Predecessor: | Md Rozai Safian |
Successor: | Juhari Bulat |
Constituency: | non-MLA (Pakatan Harapan) |
Party: | People's Justice Party (PKR) |
Otherparty: | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Citizenship: | Malaysian |
Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|أحمد قاسم |
Dato' Paduka Haji Ahmad bin Kassim (born 24 March 1963) is a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Kuala Kedah constituency in Kedah for one term from 2008 to 2013. He sat in Parliament as a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR) in the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition.[1]
Kassim was elected to the Kuala Kedah seat in the 2008 election, defeating Hashim Jahaya of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition.[2] He served one term in Parliament; before the 2013 election he was replaced as PKR's candidate for the seat by Azman Ismail,[3] who went on to retain the seat for the opposition party.
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||||
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2008 | P010 Kuala Kedah, Kedah | (PKR) | 35,689 | 55.45% | Hashim Jahaya (UMNO) | 28,671 | 44.55% | 65,750 | 7,018 | 79.09% |