KOTA KINABALU: Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) will contest 13 seats while its ally, Sabah Barisan Nasional, will contest 11 seats in the coming general election (GE15).
One seat, Beluran, is still being negotiated. The candidate for the seat will only be known on nomination day, Nov 5.
In GE14, the seat was won by Ronald Kiandee on an Umno ticket. He later defected to Bersatu, which is now part of GRS.
Meanwhile, BN will also field a candidate for the Bugaya state seat. A by-election for the seat will be held concurrently with GE15.
Abdul Aziz Ibno, of Umno, will be contesting in the Bugaya by-election.
Of the 24 candidates for parliamentary seats announced, three are state ministers and three others are assistant ministers.
The following is the full list of candidates:
- Kudat – Ruddy Awah (GRS-Bersatu)
- Kota Marudu – Maximus Ongkili (GRS-PBS)
- Kota Belud – Abdul Rahman Dahlan (BN-Umno)
- Tuaran – Joniston Bangkuai (GRS-PBS)
- Sepanggar – Yakub Khan (BN-Umno)
- Kota Kinabalu – Yee Tsai Yew (GRS-PBS)
- Putatan – Shahelmey Yahya (BN-Umno)
- Penampang – Kenny Chua (GRS-STAR)
- Papar – Armizan Mohd Ali (GRS-Bersatu)
- Kimanis – Mohamad Alamin (BN-Umno)
- Beaufort – Siti Aminah Aching (BN-Umno)
- Sipitang – Matbali Musah (GRS-Umno)
- Ranau – Jonathan Yasin (GRS-Bersatu)
- Keningau – Jeffrey Kitingan (GRS-STAR)
- Tenom – Jamawi Jaafar (BN-Umno)
- Pensiangan – Arthur Joseph Kurup (BN-PBRS)
- Libaran – Suhaimi Nasir (BN-Umno)
- Batu Sapi – Khairul Firdaus Akhbar Khan (GRS-Bersatu)
- Sandakan – Thomas Lau (GRS-SAPP)
- Kinabatangan – Bung Moktar Radin (BN-Umno)
- Lahad Datu – Maizatul Akmam Alawi (BN-Umno)
- Semporna – Nixon Abdul Hadi (GRS-Bersatu)
- Tawau – Lo Su Fui (GRS-PBS)
- Kalabakan – Aslan Fadli Samsul Alang (BN-Umno)
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