Honorific-Prefix: | Dr. |
Azman Ismail | |
Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|عزمان إسماعيل |
Birth Name: | Azman bin Ismail |
Birth Place: | Kedah |
Office1: | Chairman of the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute |
Party: | People's Justice Party (PKR) |
Otherparty: | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Pakatan Harapan (PH) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Physician |
Alma Mater: | Universiti Sains Malaysia |
Office5: | Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat |
Suboffice5: | People's Justice Party |
Suboffice6: | Pakatan Harapan |
Subterm5: | 2013–2018 |
Subterm6: | 2018–2022 |
Constituency Mp3: | Kuala Kedah |
Termstart3: | 5 May 2013 |
Termend3: | 19 November 2022 |
Predecessor3: | Ahmad Kassim (PR–PKR) |
Successor3: | Ahmad Fakhruddin Fakhrurazi (PN–PAS) |
Majority3: | 4,947 (2013) 13,481 (2018) |
Termstart1: | 10 May 2023 |
1Blankname1: | Director-General |
1Namedata1: | Mohamad Zabawi Abdul Ghani |
Minister1: | Mohamad Sabu |
Parliament3: | Malaysian |
Dr. Azman bin Ismail (Jawi: عزمن بن إسماعيل) is a Malaysian politician and physician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kuala Kedah from May 2013 to November 2022. He is a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions.
Before entering politics, Azman was a General Practitioner (GP). [1] He entered Parliament after winning the Kuala Kedah federal seat in the 2013 general election, replacing the Ahmad Kassim as the party's candidate. [2] At the election, Azman defeated the Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate and fellow medical doctor Zaki Zamani Abd Rashid by 4,947 votes. [3] In the 2018 general election, he was re-elected as the MP for Kuala Kedah. In the 2022 general election, he lost the seat to Ahmad Fakhruddin Fakhrurazi of Perikatan Nasional (PN).
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
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2013 | P010 Kuala Kedah | (PKR) | 42,870 | 53.06% | Zaki Zamani Abd Rashid (UMNO) | 37,923 | 46.94% | 82,253 | 4,947 | 86.28% | ||||
2018 | (PKR) | 36,624 | 46.29% | Muhamad Riduan Mohd Othman (PAS) | 23,143 | 29.25% | 80,555 | 13,481 | 82.40% | |||||
Abdullah Hasnan Kamaruddin (UMNO) | 19,400 | 24.52% | ||||||||||||
2022 | (PKR) | 28,237 | 28.10% | bgcolor= | (PAS) | 56,298 | 56.03% | 101,510 | 28,061 | 76.60% | ||||
Mashitah Ibrahim (UMNO) | 13,879 | 13.81% | ||||||||||||
bgcolor= | Ulya Aqamah Husamudin (PEJUANG) | 1,805 | 1.80% | |||||||||||
Syed Araniri Syed Ahmad (WARISAN) | 256 | 0.25% |