| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Amat Mulia Tengku Panglima Besar Tan Sri Dato' Seri |
| Tengku Azlan | |
| Birth Name: | Tengku Azlan ibni Tengku Abu Bakar |
| Birth Date: | 21 July 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Istana Permai, Pekan, Pahang, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) |
| Office: | Deputy Minister of Transport I |
| Term Start: | 27 March 2004 |
| Term End: | 18 March 2008 |
| Primeminister: | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi |
| Minister: | Chan Kong Choy |
| Predecessor: | Ramli Ngah Talib |
| Successor: | Lajim Ukin |
| Constituency Mp1: | Jerantut |
| Parliament1: | Malaysian |
| Term Start1: | 29 November 1999 |
| Term End1: | 5 May 2013 |
| Predecessor1: | Ahmad Kamaruzaman Mohamed Baria |
| Successor1: | Ahmad Nazlan Idris |
| Party: | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) (until 1988; 1996-2018; 2021 - present) BERSATU (2018-2021) Parti Melayu Semangat 46 (S46) (1989–1996) |
| Otherparty: | Perikatan Nasional (PN) (2020-2021) Pakatan Harapan (PH) (2018-2020) Barisan Nasional (BN) (until 1989; 1996-2018; 2021-present) Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah (APU)/Gagasan Rakyat (GR) (1989-1996) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Relations: | Tuanku Ja'afar (father-in-law; deceased) Al-Sultan Abdullah (nephew) Sultan Ahmad Shah (brother; deceased) Tengku Hassanal (grandnephew) |
| Spouse: | Tunku Puan Sri Dato' Seri Jawahir binti Almarhum Tuanku Ja'afar |
| Children: | 3 |
Tengku Azlan ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mu’azzam Shah (born 21 July 1949) is a former Malaysian politician and was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia (MP) for the Jerantut constituency in Pahang from 1999 to 2013. Starting from 9 August 2021; he is a member of United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) of Barisan Nasional (BN), after his resignation as Temerloh divisional chief of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party or Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (BERSATU), a component of Pakatan Harapan (PH) and later Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition, which he rejoined for the second time since he quit UMNO in 2018.[1] [2]
In 1999, Tengku Azlan was appointed as the Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Tengku Azlan declined a deputy Minister post after the 2008 election, having previously served as a deputy Minister for Transport.[3] He was replaced by Ahmad Nazlan Idris as the Barisan Nasional candidate for Jerantut in the 2013 election. He was a member of the opposition Semangat 46 party early in his political career, running for Parliament unsuccessfully in the 1995 elections.
Tengku Azlan is the brother of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang and is one of the paternal uncles to Al-Sultan Abdullah. He is married to Tunku Puteri Negeri Sembilan Tunku Puan Sri Dato' Seri Jawahir Binti Almarhum Tuanku Ja’afar and they have two sons and a daughter.[4]
Tengku Azlan was conferred the title "Tengku Panglima Besar" by his nephew, Al-Sultan Abdullah of Pahang on 30 July 2021.[5]
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballot casts | Majority | Turnout | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | P084 Temerloh, Pahang | Tengku Azlan Sultan Abu Bakar (S46) | 14,012 | 38.83% | (UMNO) | 22,078 | 61.17% | 39,434 | 8,066 | 76.70% | ||||
| 1999 | P077 Jerantut, Pahang | (UMNO) | 16,424 | 52.33% | Syed Ibrahim Syed Ab Rahman (PAS) | 14,961 | 47.67% | 32,176 | 1,463 | 75.49% | ||||
| 2004 | P081 Jerantut, Pahang | (UMNO) | 21,349 | 62.35% | Hamzah Jaaffar (PAS) | 12,892 | 37.65% | 36,444 | 8,457 | 79.12% | ||||
| 2008 | (UMNO) | 19,543 | 52.62% | Hamzah Jaaffar (PAS) | 17,597 | 47.38% | 38,078 | 1,946 | 78.01% | |||||