Zainal Abidin Ahmad (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Malaysian politician
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Place of Birth: Selangor, Malaysia
About Zainal Abidin Ahmad (politician)
- Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad (10 October 1939 – 25 March 2010) was a Malaysian politician.
- He was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Hulu Selangor constituency in Selangor until his death in 2010.
- He was a member of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) party in the Pakatan Rakyat opposition coalition. Zainal Abidin was a member of the State Assembly of Selangor from 1990 for the UMNO party before being omitted from the ticket of the governing Barisan Nasional coalition for the 2004 election.
- From 1995 to 1999 he served as Deputy Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) and on the Selangor Executive Council.Zainal Abidin switched to the opposition Keadilan party in 2005.
- In the 2008 election, Zainal won the federal seat of Hulu Selangor, unseating the incumbent Barisan Nasional member by a narrow margin of 198 votes.Zainal Abidin died on 25 March 2010 from brain cancer, triggering a by-election in Hulu Selangor which was won by YB P.
- Kamalanathan of (MIC) – (BN).
- He is survived by his wife Datin Siti Zaharah Mohd Zin and four children.
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