Candidate · N17 Jimah (1974)
Current
No current role in the records collected so far.
Overall due diligence
Low
Records cover only historical election results through 1995 with no documented current office, integrity matters, or unresolved legal exposure.
Electoral resilience
Low
One federal win (GE4 1974, P81 Petaling) and one state win (1969, N12 Jimah); lost the other six documented contests across federal and state levels.
Political continuity
Elevated
Multiple party moves between DAP (1969, 1974), SDP (1974, 1978, 1986) and GERAKAN/BN (1995) within a few decades.
Integrity signal
Clear
No allegations, charges, or convictions appear in the supplied records.
Financial / corporate
Open
No company-registry, asset, credit or financial-disclosure records supplied.
The supplied records describe a multi-decade Malaysian electoral career running from 1969 to 1995, with candidacies in Penang, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor and Perak. Only two of eight documented contests were won, both as a DAP candidate in 1969 (N12 Jimah state) and 1974 (P81 Petaling federal). Party switches between DAP, SDP (including the SDP/HAK coalition) and GERAKAN/BN are documented political facts, not misconduct. No integrity, litigation, corporate, financial or procurement matters appear in the records supplied, so the integrity signal is clear within the limits of those records. Several due-diligence dimensions remain open and require verification from SSM, MACC, court registries and official parliamentary archives.
Public-record review · allegations ≠ findings · a charge is not a conviction · every point links to its source record (E official results, R reviewed records, N collected reports). Prepared by AI from the records on this page; not an analyst finding, and it can be wrong.
No biography collected yet.
Arrests, charges, convictions, sentences, acquittals and pardons as reported by credible sources. Each item is marked with its stage — a charge is not a conviction — and outcomes are listed where reported.
No legal history found in the sources collected so far.
Allegations and investigations as reported by credible outlets. An allegation is not a finding; read each with its stage and source.
No scandals or controversies found in the sources collected so far.
How much due-diligence attention each area needs — not a finding of wrongdoing.
No current office documented; prior tenure as federal MP (1974-1978) and Negeri Sembilan state assemblyman (1969-1974) only.
One federal and one state seat won; majority of documented candidacies were unsuccessful.
No procurement, contract or tender records supplied.
No company-registry, GLC or directorships supplied.
No court or case records supplied.
No MACC, regulatory or criminal records supplied.
No asset-declaration, income-disclosure or financial-records coverage.
No media, civil-society or reputation records supplied.
Nothing collected yet.
Contested 8 elections, won 2.
| Election | Seat | Ticket | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE9 (1995) | P48 Tanjong | GERAKAN · BN | 18,727 41.5% | 2nd of 3 |
| Perak state election 1986 | N19 Dermawan | SDP · HAK | 425 1.9% | 3rd of 3 · lost deposit |
| Pulau Pinang state election 1978 | N20 Ayer Itam | SDP | 517 3.5% | 3rd of 3 · lost deposit |
| GE5 (1978) | P41 Bukit Bendera | SDP | 3,022 7.1% | 3rd of 3 · lost deposit |
| Negeri Sembilan state election 1974 | N17 Jimah | DAP | 2,178 |
Official gazetted results via the Malaysian Election Corpus (grade A record).
Collected automatically from credible outlets and Wikipedia, then cross-checked: Verified items match the official record, Confirmed items were reported by two or more different outlets, and single-source items are one outlet’s report. Partisan and anonymous claims are never shown.
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| 2nd of 4 |
| GE4 (1974) | P81 Petaling | DAP | 14,106 40.4% | Won by 1,238 |
| Negeri Sembilan state election 1969 | N12 Jimah | DAP | 2,339 56.5% | Won by 897 |
| GE3 (1969) | P76 Sepang | DAP | 6,701 44.2% | 2nd of 2 |