Penang State Legislative Assembly

Penang State Legislative Assembly
Penang State Legislative Assembly ; Dewan Undangan Negeri Pulau Pinang; ديوان اوندڠن نڬري ڤولاو ڤينڠ; 槟城州议会; பினாங்கு மாநில சட்ட மன்றம்
	14th Penang State Legislative Assembly
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	11 July 1959
Leadership
Governor	Abdul Rahman Abbas ; since 1 May 2001
Speaker	Law Choo Kiang[1], PH–PKR ; since 28 June 2013
Deputy Speaker	Amar Pritpal Abdullah[2], PH–PKR ; since 2 August 2018
Chief Minister	Chow Kon Yeow, PH–DAP ; since 14 May 2018
Opposition Leader	Muhamad Yusoff Mohd Noor[2], BN–UMNO ; since 2 August 2018
Secretary	Maheswari Malayandy
Structure
Seats	40; Quorum: 13; Simple majority: 21; Two-thirds majority: 27
Political groups	(As of 22 August 2020); Government (33):; Pakatan Harapan (33); DAP (19); PKR (12); AMANAH (2); Opposition (7):; Perikatan Nasional (5) ; BERSATU (4); ; PAS (1); Barisan Nasional (2) UMNO (2); Speaker (non-MLA)
Committees	5 Public Accounts Committee; Rights and Privileges Committee; Assembly Committee; Rules of Proceedings Committee; Constitutional Committee;
Elections
Voting system	Plurality: First-past-the-post (40 single-member constituencies)
Last election	9 May 2018
Next election	2023
Meeting place
	Penang State Assembly Building, Light Street, George Town, Penang
Website
	dun.penang.gov.my

The Penang State Legislative Assembly (Malay: Dewan Undangan Negeri Pulau Pinang) is the legislature of the Malaysian state of Penang. It is a unicameral institution, consisting of a total of 40 elected lawmakers representing single-member constituencies throughout Penang. The state legislature, whose members are called State Assemblymen, convenes at the Penang State Assembly Building in Penang's capital city of George Town. The Penang State Executive Council, the executive branch of the Penang state government, is drawn from among the State Assemblymen.

Out of the 40 seats, 33 are held by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) ruling coalition after the 2018 State Election. Within the coalition, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) holds 19 seats, the People's Justice Party (PKR) 12 seats, and the National Trust Party (Amanah) holds two seats. The PH coalition thus commands a supermajority in the legislature.

Meanwhile, the opposition is formed by the Perikatan Nasional (PN) where all are from Barisan Nasional (BN), Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu), and the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), which currently controls just seven seats (along with Zulkifli Ibrahim[3][4][5]) and they support current federal government.

Map of current constituencies (since 2018)

Current composition

PH			PN		BN
33			5		2
19	12	2	4	1	2
DAP	PKR	AMANAH	BERSATU	PAS	UMNO

No.	State Constituency	Member	Coalition (Party)	Post
PH 33 \| BERSATU 4 \|BN 2 \| PAS 1
N01	Penaga	Mohd. Yusni Mat Piah	PN (PAS)	N/A
N02	Bertam	Khaliq Mehtab Mohd. Ishaq	PN (BERSATU)	N/A
N03	Pinang Tunggal	Ahmad Zakiyuddin Abd. Rahman	PH (PKR)	Deputy Chief Minister
N04	Permatang Berangan	Nor Hafizah Othman	BN (UMNO)	N/A
N05	Sungai Dua	Muhamad Yusoff Mohd. Noor	BN (UMNO)	Opposition Leader
N06	Telok Ayer Tawar	Mustafa Kamal Ahmad	PH (PKR)	N/A
N07	Sungai Puyu	Phee Boon Poh	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
N08	Bagan Jermal	Soon Lip Chee	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
N09	Bagan Dalam	Satees Muniandy	PH (DAP)	N/A
N10	Seberang Jaya	Afif Bahardin	PN (BERSATU)	N/A
N11	Permatang Pasir	Muhammad Faiz Mohamed Fadzil	PH (AMANAH)	N/A
N12	Penanti	Norlela Ariffin	PH (PKR)	EXCO Member
N13	Berapit	Heng Lee Lee	PH (DAP)	N/A
N14	Machang Bubok	Lee Khai Loon	PH (PKR)	N/A
N15	Padang Lalang	Chong Eng	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
N16	Perai	Ramasamy Palanisamy	PH (DAP)	Deputy Chief Minister
N17	Bukit Tengah	Gooi Hsiao Leung	PH (PKR)	N/A
N18	Bukit Tambun	Goh Choon Aik	PH (PKR)	N/A
N19	Jawi	H’ng Mooi Lye	PH (DAP)	N/A
N20	Sungai Bakap	Amar Pritpal Abdullah	PH (PKR)	Deputy Speaker
N21	Sungai Acheh	Zulkifli Ibrahim	PN (BERSATU)	N/A
N22	Tanjong Bunga	Zairil Khir Johari	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
N23	Air Putih	Lim Guan Eng	PH (DAP)	MP of Bagan
N24	Kebun Bunga	Ong Khan Lee	PH (PKR)	N/A
N25	Pulau Tikus	Chris Lee Chun Kit	PH (DAP)	N/A
N26	Padang Kota	Chow Kon Yeow	PH (DAP)	Chief Minister MP of Tanjong
N27	Pengkalan Kota	Gooi Zi Sen	PH (DAP)	N/A
N28	Komtar	Teh Lai Heng	PH (DAP)	N/A
N29	Datok Keramat	Jagdeep Singh Deo	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
N30	Sungai Pinang	Lim Siew Khim	PH (DAP)	N/A
N31	Batu Lancang	Ong Ah Teong	PH (DAP)	N/A
N32	Seri Delima	Syerleena Abdul Rashid	PH (DAP)	N/A
N33	Air Itam	Joseph Ng Soon Seong	PH (DAP)	N/A
N34	Paya Terubong	Yeoh Soon Hin	PH (DAP)	EXCO Member
N35	Batu Uban	Kumaresan Aramugam	PH (PKR)	N/A
N36	Pantai Jerejak	Saifuddin Nasution Ismail	PH (PKR)	MP of Kulim-Bandar Baharu
N37	Batu Maung	Abdul Halim Hussain	PH (PKR)	EXCO Member
N38	Bayan Lepas	Azrul Mahathir Aziz	PH (AMANAH)	N/A
N39	Pulau Betong	Mohd. Tuah Ismail	PH (PKR)	N/A
N40	Telok Bahang	Zolkifly Md. Lazim	PN (BERSATU)	N/A

Seating arrangement

The seating arrangement of the Penang State Legislative Assembly is as follows.[6]

N33 Air Itam	N11 Permatang Pasir	N38 Bayan Lepas	N24 Kebun Bunga	N25 Pulau Tikus	N17 Bukit Tengah	N31 Batu Lanchang	N14 Machang Bubok
		N30 Sungai Pinang	N28 Komtar	N36 Pantai Jerejak	N23 Air Putih
N06 Telok Ayer Tawar		B					Vacant
N35 Batu Uban							N20 Sungai Bakap (Deputy Speaker)
N19 Jawi	N40 Telok Bahang	C			A	N07 Sungai Puyu	N12 Penanti
N39 Pulau Betong	N2 Bertam					N29 Datok Keramat	N08 Bagan Jermal
N18 Bukit Tambun	N21 Sungai Acheh					N15 Padang Lalang	N34 Paya Terubong
N27 Pengkalan Kota	N10 Seberang Jaya					N16 Perai (Deputy Chief Minister II)	N37 Batu Maung
N13 Berapit	N01 Penaga					N03 Pinang Tunggal (Deputy Chief Minister I)	N22 Tanjong Bunga
N09 Bagan Dalam	N04 Permatang Berangan					State Legal Advisor	State Financial Officer
N32 Seri Delima	N05 Sungai Dua (Opposition Leader)		Secretary			N26 Padang Kota (Chief Minister)	State Secretary
			Speaker
			Yang Di-Pertua Negeri

Role

The Penang State Legislative Assembly's main function is to enact legislation and policies relating to the State List and Joint List as defined in the Federal Constitution. Its members also provide oversight on the state's executive branch of government, ensuring the state departments and agencies enforce the aforementioned legislation.[7] Debates in the Assembly are presided over by the Speaker.

The leader of the party or coalition with a majority in the Assembly is appointed as the Chief Minister by the Tuan Yang Terutama Tun Yang di-Pertua Negeri of Penang. The Chief Minister heads the state's executive, known as the State Executive Council, whose members are also drawn from the Assembly.

Committees

The State Assembly also consists of committees to handle administrative matters. The committees include:[8]

Public Accounts Committee
Committee on Privileges
House Committee
Standing Orders Committee
Constitution Committee

Speakers Roll of Honour

The following is the Speaker of the Penang State Legislative Assembly Roll of Honour, since 1959:[9]

No.	Speaker	Term start	Term end	Party	Constituency
1	Sulaiman Ahmad	6 January 1959	1 April 1964	Alliance (UMNO)	Alma
1	Sulaiman Ahmad	25 April 1964	19 March 1969	Alliance (UMNO)	Alma
2	Harun Sirat	10 May 1969	31 July 1974	Gerakan	Alma
2	Harun Sirat	24 August 1974	16 June 1978	BN (Gerakan)	Bukit Tengah
3	Hassan Md. Noh	8 July 1978	29 March 1982	BN (UMNO)	Penaga
4	Teh Ewe Lim	22 April 1982	19 July 1986	BN (Gerakan)	Datok Keramat
5	Ooi Ean Kwong	3 August 1986	5 October 1990	BN (Gerakan)	Datok Keramat
6	Abdul Rahman Abbas	21 October 1990	4 April 1995	BN (UMNO)	Bertam
7	Yahaya Abdul Hamid	25 April 1995	10 November 1999	BN (UMNO)	Pinang Tunggal
		29 November 1999	2 March 2004		Pinang Tunggal
		21 March 2004	12 February 2008		Non-MLA
8	Abdul Halim Hussain	8 March 2008	27 June 2013	PR (PKR)	Non-MLA
9	Law Choo Kiang	28 June 2013	10 April 2018	PH (PKR)	Bukit Tambun
9	Law Choo Kiang	2 August 2018	Incumbent	PH (PKR)	Non-MLA

Election pendulum

The 14th General Election witnessed 37 governmental seats and 3 non-governmental seats filled the Penang State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 25 safe seats and 2 fairly safe seats. However, none of the non-government side has safe and fairly safe seat.

2018 Penang state election

GOVERNMENT SEATS
Marginal
Pinang Tunggal	Ahmad Zakiyuddin Abd. Rahman	PKR	38.76
Bertam	Khaliq Mehtab Mohd. Ishaq	BERSATU	41.20
Sungai Acheh	Zulkifli Ibrahim	PKR	44.19
Telok Ayer Tawar	Mustafa Kamal Ahmad	PKR	44.40
Penanti	Dr. Norlela Ariffin	PKR	44.95
Permatang Pasir	Muhammad Faiz Mohamed Fadzil	AMANAH	45.33
Sungai Bakap	Amar Pritpal Abdullah	PKR	45.56
Telok Bahang	Zolkifly Md. Lazim	BERSATU	45.65
Pulau Betong	Mohd. Tuah Ismail	PKR	49.63
Seberang Jaya	Dr. Afif Bahardin	PKR	53.12
Fairly safe
Bayan Lepas	Azrul Mahathir Aziz	AMANAH	56.17
Batu Maung	Abdul Halim Hussain	PKR	58.72
Safe
Bukit Tengah	Gooi Hsiao-Leung	PKR	66.16
Sungai Pinang	Lim Siew Khim	DAP	68.79
Machang Bubok	Lee Khai Loon	PKR	68.98
Bagan Dalam	Satees Muniandy	DAP	72.54
Pantai Jerejak	Saifuddin Nasution Ismail	PKR	73.45
Datok Keramat	Jagdeep Singh Deo	DAP	75.25
Tanjong Bunga	Zairil Khir Johari	DAP	76.37
Jawi	H’ng Mooi Lye	DAP	78.58
Air Itam	Joseph Ng Soon Seong	DAP	79.76
Batu Uban	Kumaresan Aramugam	PKR	80.43
Bukit Tambun	Goh Choon Aik	PKR	81.54
Pulau Tikus	Chris Lee Chun Kit	DAP	82.32
Perai	Prof. Dr. Ramasamy Palanisamy	DAP	82.46
Seri Delima	Syerleena Abdul Rashid	DAP	82.54
Komtar	Teh Lai Heng	DAP	84.64
Bagan Jermal	Soon Lip Chee	DAP	85.37
Air Putih	Lim Guan Eng	DAP	85.61
Padang Kota	Chow Kon Yeow	DAP	85.76
Kebun Bunga	Jason Ong Khan Lee	PKR	86.27
Paya Terubong	Yeoh Soon Hin	DAP	88.59
Padang Lalang	Chong Eng	DAP	88.66
Pengkalan Kota	Gooi Zi Sen	DAP	88.87
Batu Lancang	Ong Ah Teong	DAP	89.01
Sungai Puyu	Phee Boon Poh	DAP	90.17
Berapit	Heng Lee Lee	DAP	92.06

NON-GOVERNMENT SEATS
Marginal
Permatang Berangan	Nor Hafizah Othman	UMNO	37.87
Sungai Dua	Muhamad Yusoff Mohd. Noor	UMNO	41.07
Penaga	Mohd. Yusni Mat Piah	PAS	53.55

References

Nambiar, Predeep (2 August 2018). "Guan Eng, Saifuddin to make history in Penang assembly". Free Malaysia Today. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
Dermawan, Audrey (2 August 2018). "'Lawan tetap lawan, kawan tetap kawan, dewan tetap dewan'". New Straits Times. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/532184
https://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/88740/BERITA/Politik/PKR-perlu-keluar-daripada-PH-ADUN-Sungai-Acheh
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/07/04/after-being-sacked-from-pkr-sg-acheh-rep-zulkifli-ibrahim-to-support-pn/
(PDF) http://dun.penang.gov.my/images/SUSUNAN%20TEMPAT%20DUDUK%20ADUN%202020%20(12%20OKT%202020)(PINDAAN%2013%20OKT))%20SALINAN.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)
Role and Membership of the State Assembly Penang State Assembly Portal
List of State Assembly Committees Penang State Assembly Portal
Senarai Yang di-Pertua Dewan Undangan Negeri

External links

Penang State Assembly Portal

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[1] Nambiar, Predeep (2 August 2018). "Guan Eng, Saifuddin to make history in Penang assembly". Free Malaysia Today. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[NST-2] Dermawan, Audrey (2 August 2018). "'Lawan tetap lawan, kawan tetap kawan, dewan tetap dewan'". New Straits Times. Retrieved 2 August 2018.

[3] ttps://www.malaysiakini.com/news/532184

[4] ttps://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/88740/BERITA/Politik/PKR-perlu-keluar-daripada-PH-ADUN-Sungai-Acheh

[5] ttps://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2020/07/04/after-being-sacked-from-pkr-sg-acheh-rep-zulkifli-ibrahim-to-support-pn/

[6] (PDF) http://dun.penang.gov.my/images/SUSUNAN%20TEMPAT%20DUDUK%20ADUN%202020%20(12%20OKT%202020)(PINDAAN%2013%20OKT))%20SALINAN.pdf. Missing or empty |title= (help)

[7] Role and Membership of the State Assembly Penang State Assembly Portal

[8] List of State Assembly Committees Penang State Assembly Portal

[9] Senarai Yang di-Pertua Dewan Undangan Negeri