West Coast By-Elections

The West Coast by-elections was a election triggered by the resignation of Member of Parliament, SyazwanOfficial. It was triggered in the middle of December 2020, after results were out. In one week, SyazwanOfficial announced his resignation from his post. The Upper ranks decided to trigger a by-election.

There were promising candidates from 3 parties. It included: Non-Constituency Member of Parliament, AerospaceRulesYT (Democratic Reform Party) , YouTuber, Social Worker, jinrong2 (People's Progress Party) , Member, ltaceo270808 (Social Democratic Party)

This election only had a span of 3 days. One day for nomination, one day for campaigning and one day for pollings. It was done this way as the Presidential Elections was coming up.

During nomination day, there were surprises. All the candidates from the parties were new faces, but not new to the community. Tables were shook when NCMP AerospaceRulesYT was seen at the Nomination centre at Kampong Pisang Primary School. When PPP's chairman and secretary-general were spotted at the coffee shop nearby, news reporters asked him who was his candidate, he denied an answer and said, "you'll see," and it raised questions over the mysterious candidate. At 10:30am, PPP's candidate turned up at Kampong Pisang Primary School, namely jinrong2. He was a new face to this party but not to the community.

On campaign day, all parties put up very good campaign materials. DRP, PPP and SDP was fighting for that seat with strong points over "transparency" and "our workers". SDP focused on retirement and the working people, DRP focused on economies and PPP focused on citizen's care.

On polling day, PPP's candidate jinrong2 appeared at the counting centre to witness the ballot boxes being transported and counted. On his interview, he said he is excited.

When the results were out, PPP defeated the ruling party DRP and SDP, with a score of 45.5%-36.4%-18.2%. Though the highest score did not reach the requirement, it was passed and PPP was officially the winner of this single seat.