Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Tuan |
Birth Name: | Ahmad Tarmizi bin Sulaiman |
Otherparty: | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) Perikatan Nasional (PN) |
Party: | Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) |
Birth Place: | Kampung Pau, Sik District, Kedah, Malaysia |
Birth Date: | 8 July 1976 |
Predecessor4: | Mansor Abd Rahman (BN–UMNO) |
Term Start4: | 9 May 2018 |
Majority4: | 42,772 (2018) 51,659 (2022) |
Parliament4: | Malaysian |
Constituency Mp4: | Sik |
Occupation: | Politician |
Native Name: | أَحْمَد تَرْمِذِي سُلَيْمَان |
Ahmad Tarmizi bin Sulaiman is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sik since May 2018.[1] He was Deputy President of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organisation (MAPIM). He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN), formerly Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions.
In the 2013 Kedah state election, Ahmad Tarmizi made his electoral debut after being nominated by PR to contest for the Jeneri state seat. He lost to Mahadzir Abdul Hamid of Barisan Nasional (BN) by a minority of 2,060 votes.
In the 2018 general election, Ahmad Tarmizi was nominated by GS to contest for the Sik federal seat. He won the seat and was elected to the Parliament as the Sik MP for the first term after defeating defending MP Mansor Abd Rahman of BN and Azli Che Uda of Pakatan Harapan (PH) by a majority of 42,772 votes.
In the 2022 general election, Ahmad Tarmizi was nominated by PN to defend the Sik seat. He defended the seat and was reelected to Parliament as the Sik MP for the second term after defeating of Maizatulakmam Othman Ibrahim of BN and Latifah Mohammad Yatim of PH by a majority of 51,659 votes.
As the Deputy President of MAPIM,[2] Ahmad Tarmizi participated in its mission to spread humanitarianism to other Islamic nations.
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
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2013 | N23 Jeneri | Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman (PAS) | 10,258 | 45.44% | Mahadzir Abdul Hamid (UMNO) | 12,318 | 54.56% | 22,576 | 2,060 | 89.80% | ||||
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
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2018 | P013 Sik | Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman (PAS) | 20,088 | 46.97% | Mansor Abd Rahman (UMNO) | 14,870 | 34.77% | 42,772 | 5,218 | 84.89% | |||
Azli Che Uda (AMANAH) | 6,970 | 16.30% | |||||||||||
2022 | (PAS) | 34,606 | 67.64% | Maizatulakmam Othman @Ibrahim (UMNO) | 12,189 | 25.06% | 21,787 | 51,659 | 81.05% | ||||
Latifah Mohammad Yatim (AMANAH) | 3,736 | 7.30% | |||||||||||