Perak State Legislative Assembly

Perak State Legislative Assembly Dewan Negeri Perak ديوان نݢري ڤيراق‎
15th Perak State Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	21 July 1959
Leadership
Sultan	Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah since 29 May 2014
Speaker	Mohamad Zahir Abdul Khalid, BN–UMNO since 12 May 2020
Deputy Speaker	Jenny Choy Tsi Jen, PH–DAP since 19 December 2022
Menteri Besar	Saarani Mohamad,BN–UMNO since 10 December 2020
Leader of the Opposition	Razman Zakaria, PN–PAS since 9 December 2022 [1]
Structure
Seats	59 Quorum: 20 Simple majority: 30 Two-thirds majority: 40
Political groups	(As of 26 April 2025 [update] ) Government (33)   PH (24)   DAP (18)   PKR (5)   AMANAH (1)   BN (9)   UMNO (8)   MCA (1) Opposition (26)   PN (26)   PAS (17)   BERSATU (9) Speaker (1)   BN (non-MLA)
Length of term	Up to 5 years
Elections
Voting system	Plurality: First-past-the-post (59 single-member constituencies)
Last election	19 November 2022
Next election	By 17 February 2028
Meeting place
Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan, Ipoh, Perak
Website
www.perak.gov.my

The Perak State Legislative Assembly (Malay : Dewan Negeri Perak) is the unicameral state legislature of the Malaysian state of Perak. It is composed of 59 members representing single-member constituencies throughout the state. Elections are held no more than five years apart, along with elections to the federal parliament and other state assemblies.

The Assembly convenes at the Bangunan Perak Darul Ridzuan in the state capital, Ipoh. At 59 seats, it is the largest state assembly among the 11 legislatures of the States of Malaya.

Map of current constituencies (since 2018)

Current composition

For a complete list of members, see List of Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (2022–present).

Government					Opposition
BN		PH			PN
9		24			26
8	1	18	5	1	17	9
UMNO	MCA	DAP	PKR	AMANAH	PAS	BERSATU

No.	Parliamentary Constituency	No.	State Constituency	Member	Coalition (Party)	Post
-	-	-	Non-MLA	Mohamad Zahir Abdul Khalid	BN (UMNO)	Speaker
P54	Gerik	N1	Pengkalan Hulu	Mohamad Amin Roslan	PN (PAS)	N/A
		N2	Temengor	Salbiah Mohamed	BN (UMNO)	EXCO Member
P55	Lenggong	N3	Kenering	Husairi Ariffin	PN (PAS)	N/A
		N4	Kota Tampan	Saarani Mohamad	BN (UMNO)	Menteri Besar
P56	Larut	N5	Selama	Mohd Akmal Kamaruddin	PN (PAS)	N/A
		N6	Kubu Gajah	Khalil Yahaya	PN (PAS)
		N7	Batu Kurau	Mohd Najmuddin Elias Al-Hafiz	PN (BERSATU)
P57	Parit Buntar	N8	Titi Serong	Hakimi Hamzi Hayat	PN (PAS)
		N9	Kuala Kurau	Abdul Yunus Jamahri	PN (BERSATU)
P58	Bagan Serai	N10	Alor Pongsu	Noor Azman Ghazali	PN (BERSATU)
		N11	Gunong Semanggol	Razman Zakaria	PN (PAS)	Leader of the Opposition
		N12	Selinsing	Sallehuddin Abdullah	PN (PAS)	N/A
P59	Bukit Gantang	N13	Kuala Sepetang	Ahmad Man	PN (BERSATU)
		N14	Changkat Jering	Rahim Ismail	PN (PAS)
		N15	Trong	Faisal Abdul Rahman	PN (PAS)
P60	Taiping	N16	Kamunting	Mohd Fakhrudin Abdul Aziz	PN (PAS)
		N17	Pokok Assam	Ong Seng Guan	PH (DAP)
		N18	Aulong	Teh Kok Lim	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
P61	Padang Rengas	N19	Chenderoh	Syed Lukman Hakim Syed Mohd Zin	PN (BERSATU)	N/A
		N20	Lubok Merbau	Azizi Mohamed Ridzuan	PN (PAS)
P62	Sungai Siput	N21	Lintang	Mohd Zolkafly Harun	BN (UMNO)	EXCO Member
		N22	Jalong	Loh Sze Yee	PH (DAP)
P63	Tambun	N23	Manjoi	Mohd Hafez Sabri	PN (PAS)	N/A
		N24	Hulu Kinta	Muhamad Arafat Varisai Mahamad	PH (PKR)
P64	Ipoh Timor	N25	Canning	Jenny Choy Tsi Jen	PH (DAP)	Deputy Speaker
		N26	Tebing Tinggi	Abdul Aziz Bari	PH (DAP)	N/A
		N27	Pasir Pinji	Goh See Hua	PH (DAP)
P65	Ipoh Barat	N28	Bercham	Ong Boon Piow	PH (DAP)
		N29	Kepayang	Nga Kor Ming	PH (DAP)	MP of Teluk Intan Federal Minister
		N30	Buntong	Thulsi Thivani Manogaran	PH (DAP)	N/A
P66	Batu Gajah	N31	Jelapang	Cheah Pou Hian	PH (DAP)
		N32	Menglembu	Steven Chaw Kam Foon	PH (DAP)	Political Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Local Government
		N33	Tronoh	Steven Tiw Tee Siang	PH (DAP)	N/A
P67	Kuala Kangsar	N34	Bukit Chandan	Hashim Bujang	PN (BERSATU)
		N35	Manong	Burhanuddin Ahmad	PN (PAS)
P68	Beruas	N36	Pengkalan Baharu	Azman Noh	BN (UMNO)
		N37	Pantai Remis	Wong May Ing	PH (DAP)
		N38	Astaka	Jason Ng Thien Yeong	PH (DAP)
P69	Parit	N39	Belanja	Khairudin Abu Hanipah	BN (UMNO)	EXCO Member
		N40	Bota	Najihatussalehah Ahmad	PN (PAS)	N/A
P70	Kampar	N41	Malim Nawar	Bavani Veraiah	PH (DAP)
		N42	Keranji	Angeline Koo Haai Yen	PH (DAP)
		N43	Tualang Sekah	Mohd Azlan Helmi	PH (PKR)	EXCO Member
P71	Gopeng	N44	Sungai Rapat	Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin	PH (AMANAH)	EXCO Member Former Menteri Besar of Perak
		N45	Simpang Pulai	Wong Chai Yi	PH (PKR)	N/A
		N46	Teja	Sandrea Ng Shy Ching	PH (PKR)	EXCO Member
P72	Tapah	N47	Chenderiang	Choong Shin Heng	BN (MCA)	N/A
		N48	Ayer Kuning	Mohamad Yusri Bakir	BN (UMNO)
P73	Pasir Salak	N49	Sungai Manik	Zainol Fadzi Paharudin	PN (BERSATU)
		N50	Kampong Gajah	Zafarulazlan Zan	PN (PAS)
P74	Lumut	N51	Pasir Panjang	Rosli Abd Rahman	PN (PAS)
		N52	Pangkor	Norhaslinda Zakaria	PN (BERSATU)
P75	Bagan Datuk	N53	Rungkup	Shahrul Zaman Yahya	BN (UMNO)
		N54	Hutan Melintang	Wasanthee Sinnasamy	PH (PKR)
P76	Teluk Intan	N55	Pasir Bedamar	Woo Kah Leong	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
		N56	Changkat Jong	Nadziruddin Mohamed Bandi	PN (BERSATU)	N/A
P77	Tanjong Malim	N57	Sungkai	Sivanesan Achalingam	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
		N58	Slim	Muhammad Zulfadli Zainal	PN (PAS)	N/A
		N59	Behrang	Salina Samsudin	BN (UMNO)

Seating arrangement

Vacant		N54 Hutan Melintang	N38 Astaka	N33 Tronoh		N30 Buntong
N19 Chenderoh	N17 Pokok Assam	N42 Keranji		N31 Jelapang	N41 Malim Nawar	N27 Pasir Pinji
N01 Pengkalan Hulu	N47 Chenderiang	E			N28 Bercham	N45 Simpang Pulai
N08 Titi Serong	N52 Pangkor	F		D	N36 Pengkalan Baharu	N59 Behrang
N58 Slim	N35 Manong				N37 Pantai Remis	N48 Ayer Kuning (Vacant)
N50 Kampong Gajah	N40 Bota				N53 Rungkup	N32 Menglembu
N10 Alor Pongsu	N12 Selinsing	G	Sergeant-at-Arm	C	N29 Kepayang	N24 Hulu Kinta
N16 Kamunting	N13 Kuala Sepetang				N26 Tebing Tinggi	N25 Canning (Deputy Speaker)
N15 Trong	N03 Kenering				N18 Aulong (EXCO Member)	N55 Pasir Bedamar (EXCO Member)
N14 Changkat Jering	N07 Batu Kurau	H		B	N02 Temenggor (EXCO Member)	N43 Tualang Sekah (EXCO Member)
N20 Lubok Merbau	N56 Changkat Jong		the Mace		N22 Jalong (EXCO Member)	N39 Belanja (EXCO Member)
N34 Bukit Chandan}	N09 Kuala Kurau				N57 Sungkai (EXCO Member)	N46 Teja (EXCO Member)
N51 Pasir Panjang	N05 Selama	I		A	N21 Lintang (EXCO Member)	State Financial Officer
N23 Manjoi	N49 Sungai Manik				N44 Sungai Rapat (EXCO Member)	State Legal Advisor
N06 Kubu Gajah	N11 Gunong Semanggol (Opposition Leader)		Secretary		N04 Kota Tampan (Menteri Besar)	State Secretary
			Speaker
			Sultan

Role

The Perak State Legislative Assembly enacts laws that apply in Perak. It must hold at least three sittings a year and table a budget in March and late October or early November. ^[2] The Speaker presides over sittings in the Assembly and ensures order during debates. The present Speaker is Mohamad Zahir Abdul Khalid.

The majority party or coalition in the Assembly forms the state government, led by the Menteri Besar. He appoints the state executive council, or EXCO (Majlis Mesyuarat Kerajaan), drawing from members of the Assembly.

Speakers of The Assembly

No.	Speaker	Term start	Term end	Party	Constituency	Remarks
1	Sulaiman Bulon	1959	1963	BN ( UMNO )	Non-MLA
2	Ali Zaini Mohd Zain	1964	1974	BN ( UMNO )	Karai (now part of Lintang)
3	Shafie Mat Saman	1974	1978	BN ( UMNO )	Manong	[3]
4	Ahmad Azizuddin Zainal Abidin	1978	1982	BN ( UMNO )	Non-MLA	[4]
5	Shamsuddin Din	1982	1986	BN ( UMNO )	Temengor
6	Abdul Malik Ahmad	1987	1988	BN ( UMNO )	Non-MLA
7	Umar Ismail	1988	1990	BN ( UMNO )	Non-MLA
8	Mohd Arshad Abdullah	1990	1995	BN ( UMNO )	Changkat Jong
9	Mohamed Nazri Abd Rahim	1995	1999	BN ( UMNO )	Sungai Manik
10	Junus Wahid	1999	2004	BN ( UMNO )	Slim
11	V. Sivakumar	25 April 2008	7 May 2009	PR ( DAP )	Tronoh	1st Indian speaker
12	Ganesan Retanam	7 May 2009	5 May 2013	BN ( MIC )	Non-MLA
13	Devamany S. Krishnasamy	28 June 2013	9 August 2016	BN ( MIC )	Non-MLA
14	S. Thangeswary	9 August 2016	9 April 2018	BN ( MIC )	Non-MLA	1st female speaker [5]
15	Ngeh Koo Ham	2 July 2018	12 May 2020	PH ( DAP )	Non-MLA	MP of Beruas, 1st Chinese speaker
16	Mohamad Zahir Abdul Khalid	15 May 2020	Incumbent	BN ( UMNO )	Non-MLA

Source: Perak State Legislative Assembly ^[6]

Election pendulum

The 15th General Election witnessed 33 governmental seats and 26 non-governmental seats filled the Perak State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 15 safe seats and 3 fairly safe seats, while the non-government side has 3 fairly safe seats and no safe seats.

2022 Perak state election

GOVERNMENT SEATS Marginal Tualang Sekah Mohd Azlan Helmi PKR 34.41 Behrang Salina Samsudin UMNO 34.42 Ayer Kuning Ishsam Shahruddin UMNO 38.73 Hulu Kinta Muhamad Arafat Varisai Mahamad PKR 39.02 Chenderiang Choong Shin Heng MCA 39.86 Tebing Tinggi Abdul Aziz Bari DAP 40.58 Pengkalan Baharu Azman Noh UMNO 40.58 Sungai Rapat Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin AMANAH 41.91 Hutan Melintang Wasanthee Sinnasamy PKR 43.06 Temengor Salbiah Mohamed UMNO 43.12 Teja Sandrea Ng Shy Ching PKR 46.50 Belanja Khairudin Abu Hanipah UMNO 47.03 Kota Tampan Saarani Mohamad UMNO 48.24 Lintang Mohd Zolkafly Harun UMNO 48.43 Rungkup Shahrul Zaman Yahya UMNO 49.55 Fairly safe Malim Nawar Bavani Veriah DAP 58.57 Sungkai Sivanesan Achalingam DAP 58.97 Jalong Loh Sze Yee DAP 59.08 Safe Tronoh Steven Tiw Tee Siang DAP 63.65 Aulong Teh Kok Lim DAP 66.22 Pokok Assam Ong Seng Guan DAP 67.36 Simpang Pulai Wong Chai Yi PKR 69.18 Keranji Angeline Koo Haai Yen DAP 69.46 Pantai Remis Wong May Ing DAP 72.24 Kepayang Nga Kor Ming DAP 72.60 Pasir Bedamar Woo Kah Leong DAP 76.64 Astaka Jason Ng Thien Yeong DAP 78.16 Bercham Ong Boon Piow DAP 81.24 Buntong Thulsi Thivani Manogaran DAP 84.02 Canning Jenny Choy Tsi Jen DAP 87.10 Menglembu Chaw Kam Foon DAP 87.93 Jelapang Cheah Pou Hian DAP 88.71 Pasir Pinji Goh See Hua DAP 90.47 NON-GOVERNMENT SEATS Marginal Changkat Jong Nadziruddin Mohamed Bandi BERSATU 36.02 Bukit Chandan Hashim Bujang BERSATU 38.43 Pangkor Norhaslinda Zakaria BERSATU 38.65 Slim Muhammad Zulfadli Zainal PAS 38.87 Chenderoh Syed Lukman Hakim BERSATU 39.44 Pasir Panjang Rosli Abd Rahman PAS 41.05 Kuala Sepetang Ahmad Man BERSATU 41.34 Changkat Jering Rahim Ismail PAS 41.89 Kuala Kurau Abdul Yunus Jamahari BERSATU 41.97 Trong Muhammad Faisal Abdul Rahman PAS 43.77 Sungai Manik Zainol Fadzi Paharudin BERSATU 43.94 Kamunting Mohd Fakhrudin Abd Aziz PAS 43.98 Manong Burhanuddin Ahmad PAS 44.04 Manjoi Mohd Hafez Sabri PAS 44.14 Selinsing Salehuddin Abdullah BERSATU 46.48 Kenering Husairi Ariffin PAS 46.99 Bota Najihatussalehah Ahmad PAS 47.09 Lubok Merbau Azizi Mohamed Ridzuwan PAS 47.17 Pengkalan Hulu Amin Roslan PAS 47.60 Alor Pongsu Noor Azman Ghazali PAS 47.78 Titi Serong Hakimi Hamzi Mohd Hayat PAS 47.84 Batu Kurau Mohd Najmuddin Alias BERSATU 50.67 Kampong Gajah Zafarulazhan Zan PAS 51.03 Fairly safe Selama Akmal Kamarudin PAS 58.32 Kubu Gajah Khalil Yahaya PAS 59.16 Gunong Semanggol Razman Zakaria PAS 59.29

List of Assemblies

Assembly	Term began	Members	Election	Committee	Majority party/coalition
1st	1959			Mohamed Ghazali I (1959–1960) Shaari (1960–1964)	Alliance
2nd	1964			Ahmad Said I	Alliance
3rd	1969			Ahmad Said II (1969–1970) Kamaruddin (1970–1974)	Alliance (1969–1973) Barisan Nasional (1973–1974)
4th	1974			Mohamed Ghazali II (1974–1977) Wan Mohammed I (1977–1978)	Barisan Nasional
5th	1978			Wan Mohamed II	Barisan Nasional
6th	1982			Wan Mohamed III (1982–1983) Ramli I (1983–1986)	Barisan Nasional
7th	1986			Ramli II	Barisan Nasional
8th	1990			Ramli III	Barisan Nasional
9th	1995			Ramli IV	Barisan Nasional
10th	1999			Tajol Rosli I	Barisan Nasional
11th	2004			Tajol Rosli II	Barisan Nasional
12th	2008			Mohamad Nizar (2008–2009) Zambry I (2009–2013)	Pakatan Rakyat (2008–2009) Barisan Nasional (2009–2013)
13th	2013			Zambry II	Barisan Nasional
14th	2018			Ahmad Faizal I (2018–2020) Ahmad Faizal II (2020) Saarani I (2020–2022)	Pakatan Harapan (2018–2020) BN-PN (2020–2022)
15th	2022			Saarani II	BN-PH

See also

• List of State Seats Representatives in Malaysia
• State legislative assemblies of Malaysia
• 2009 Perak constitutional crisis
• 2020 vote of no confidence in the Faizal Azumu ministry

References

1. "Perak to debate state budget, anti-party hopping bill | the Malaysian Insight".
2. Sejarah Dewan Negeri dan Majlis Mseyuarat Kerajaan Archived 2009-12-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Malay)
3. "Ex-Perak Speaker dies". The Star. 18 October 2005. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
4. "Former Perak speaker passes away on Wednesday (Dec 15)". The Star. 15 December 2021. Retrieved 23 June 2025.
5. "Thangeswary, first woman appointed as Perak State Assembly Speaker". Astro Awani. August 9, 2016. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
6. "Senarai Yang di-Pertua Dewan Negeri Perak". Portal Rasmi Dewan Negeri Perak (in Malay). Retrieved 23 June 2025.

External links

• Perak State Government official website