*Updated 8.42am*
Its raining heavily in Tenang.
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THE road leading to Pekan Air Panas, about 15km from Labis town, was jammed with the vehicles of campaigners rushing to help the victims of flooded villages nearby. “We have never seen so many people in the village,” remarked Ong Siew Kim, the SRJK (C) Tenang headmistress. This is not surprising as Johoreans have not seen a by-election in the last 20 years.
The flood waters may have subsided on Thursday but yesterday, which was the fourth day of consecutive downpour, saw flood waters on the rise again. With polling less than two days away, campaigners have certainly more to worry than just helping the villagers to clean up their houses.
The Tenang state by-election is a state by-election that will be held on January 30, 2011 in the state of Johor, Malaysia. The nomination of candidates will be done on January 22, 2011. The Tenang parliamentary seat fell vacant when its state assemblyman Datuk Sulaiman Taha of United Malays National Organisation died due to a blood infection and other complications due to diabetes.
Previously Sulaiman won the Tenang seat with a 2,492-vote majority, beating PAS' Mohd Saim Siran at the 2008 Malaysian general elections. The state assembly seat has some 14,511 voters consisting of 48.9% Malays, 38.3% Chinese, 12% Indians and 0.9% other races. PAS has picked as its candidate Normala Sudirman, a school teacher ,while Barisan Nasional has picked Mohd Azahar.
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