| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Dato' Wira |
| Mahfuz Omar | |
| Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|محفوظ عمر |
| Birth Name: | Mahfuz bin Omar |
| Birth Date: | 25 August 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Kedah, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
| Office: | Chairman of the Farmers' Organisation Authority |
| Term Start: | 15 May 2023 |
| Minister: | Mohamad Sabu |
| Predecessor: | Che Abdullah Mat Nawi |
| Office1: | Deputy Minister of Human Resources |
| Term Start1: | 2 July 2018 |
| Term End1: | 24 February 2020 |
| Monarch1: | Muhammad V Abdullah |
| Primeminister1: | Mahathir Mohamad |
| Minister1: | M. Kulasegaran |
| Predecessor1: | Ismail Abdul Muttalib |
| Successor1: | Awang Hashim |
| Constituency1: | Pokok Sena |
| Constituency Mp2: | Pokok Sena |
| Parliament2: | Malaysian |
| Term Start2: | 8 March 2008 |
| Term End2: | 19 November 2022 |
| Predecessor2: | Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (BN–UMNO) |
| Successor2: | Ahmad Yahaya (PN–PAS) |
| Majority2: | 5,731 (2008) 3,935 (2013) 5,558 (2018) |
| Term Start3: | 29 November 1999 |
| Term End3: | 21 March 2004 |
| Predecessor3: | Wan Hanafiah Wan Mat Saman (BN–UMNO) |
| Successor3: | Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (BN–UMNO) |
| Majority3: | 3,637 (1999) |
| Party: | Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) National Trust Party (AMANAH) |
| Otherparty: | Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU) Barisan Alternatif (BA) Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) Pakatan Harapan (PH) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Spouse: | Ruswati Jaafar |
| Children: | 3 |
| Citizenship: | Malaysian |
Mahfuz bin Omar (Jawi: محفوظ بن عمر; born 25 August 1957) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Chairman of the Farmers' Organisation Authority (FOA) since May 2023.[1] He served as the Deputy Minister of Human Resources in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Minister M. Kulasegaran from July 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020 as well as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pokok Sena from November 1999 to March 2004 and again from March 2008 to November 2022. He is a member of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of the PH coalition and was a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), then a component party of formerly the Gagasan Sejahtera (GS), Pakatan Rakyat (PR), Barisan Alternatif (BA) and Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU) coalitions.
Mahfuz was the head of Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) youth wing from 1999 to 2003. Under his leadership, PAS Youth was a progressive voice within PAS, advocating for the party to join the Barisan Alternatif coalition with the Democratic Action Party (DAP) and the People's Justice Party (PKR).[2] Mahfuz's leadership of PAS was the culmination of a long period of his activism within the party. He and a group of other PAS politicians were detained under the Internal Security Act in 1985, a period of intense and often violent hostility between PAS and the governing United Malays National Organisation (UMNO).[3] He was briefly jailed again in 2000 for participating in an unauthorised protest rally against an Israeli cricket team visiting Malaysia.[4]
Mahfuz was elected to Parliament in 1999 but was defeated in the 2004 election by Abdul Rahman Ibrahim of the governing Barisan Nasional coalition. Mahfuz won back the seat at the 2008 election with a majority of 5,371 votes. He was re-elected in 2013, while all other PAS parliamentary candidates in Kedah were defeated.
On 30 December 2017, Mahfuz had announced his decision to quit PAS which he had joined 34 years ago on 12 March 1984.[5] On 15 March 2018, Mahfuz declared he had joined AMANAH, a splinter party of PAS.[6]
In the 2018 general election, Mahfuz again retained the Pokok Sena seat but as the AMANAH of Pakatan Harapan candidate for the first time.
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | P041 Permatang Pauh, Penang | Mahfuz Omar (PAS) | 7,643 | 24.31% | (UMNO) | 23,793 | 75.69% | 31,740 | 16,150 | 78.32% | ||||
| 1995 | P008 Pokok Sena, Kedah | (PAS) | 20,667 | 44.98% | (UMNO) | 25,285 | 55.02% | 49,494 | 4,618 | 77.45% | ||||
| 1999 | (PAS) | 27,466 | 53.55% | Wan Hanafiah Wan Mat Saman (UMNO) | 23,829 | 46.45% | 52,779 | 3,637 | 77.47% | |||||
| 2004 | (PAS) | 22,440 | 43.00% | (UMNO) | 29,740 | 57.00% | 53,035 | 7,300 | 80.27% | |||||
| 2008 | (PAS) | 29,687 | 55.34% | Abdul Rahman Ibrahim (UMNO) | 23,956 | 44.66% | 55,318 | 5,731 | 79.44% | |||||
| 2013 | (PAS) | 36,198 | 52.87% | Shahlan Ismail (UMNO) | 32,263 | 47.13% | 69,524 | 3,935 | 86.14% | |||||
| 2018 | (AMANAH) | 28,959 | 40.93% | (PAS) | 23,401 | 33.08% | 71,910 | 5,558 | 82.76% | |||||
| Said Ali Said Rastan (UMNO) | 18,390 | 25.99% | ||||||||||||
| 2022 | (AMANAH) | 20,524 | 23.34% | bgcolor= | Ahmad Saad Yahaya (PAS) | 52,275 | 59.44% | 88,976 | 31,751 | 76.58% | ||||
| Noran Zamini Jamaluddin (UMNO) | 14,523 | 16.51% | ||||||||||||
| Noraini Md Salleh (WARISAN) | 622 | 0.71% | ||||||||||||
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | N14 Alor Mengkudu | (AMANAH) | 8,832 | 31.81% | bgcolor= | (PAS) | 18,936 | 68.19% | 27,885 | 10,104 | 72.70% | ||||