Muslimin Yahaya

2018–2020Pakatan Harapan2020Malaysian United Indigenous Party2020–Perikatan Nasional Personal detailsBorn
(1967-07-13) 13 July 1967 (age 56)
Parit 8 Gambut Sungai Panjang, Sungai Besar, SelangorCitizenshipMalaysianPolitical partyUMNO (until 2018)
BERSATU (2018–present)Other political
affiliationsBarisan Nasional (until 2018)
Pakatan Harapan (2018–2020)
Perikatan Nasional (since 2020)SpouseHanisah PaimanOccupationPoliticianWebsitehttps://cikgumusliminyahaya.blogspot.com/

Muslimin bin Yahaya (Jawi مسلمين بن يحيى; born 13 July 1967) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sungai Besar since May 2018. He served as the Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and former Minister Noh Omar from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and Deputy Minister of Education I in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and former Minister Mohd Radzi Md Jidin from March 2020 to the collapse of PN administration in August 2021. He is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the PN coalition and former component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition and was a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. After the defeat of BN to PH in 2018 general election, he resigned from UMNO in 2018 and joined BERSATU in 2019.

Personal life

He was born in Parit 8 Gambut, Sungai Panjang, Sungai Besar, Selangor on 13 July 1967 and married his partner, Hanisah Paiman.

Career

He was previously appointed Senior Secretariat to Tan Sri Noriah Kasnon in Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities in 2014.

Election results

Parliament of Malaysia^[1][2][3]

Year	Constituency	Candidate		Votes	Pct	Opponent(s)		Votes	Pct	Ballots cast	Majority	Turnout
2018	P093 Sungai Besar, Selangor		Muslimin Yahaya (BERSATU)	17,350	42.11%		Budiman Mohd Zohdi (UMNO)	16,636	40.37%	41,878	714	85.92%
							Mohamed Salleh M Husin (PAS)	7,220	17.52%
2022			Muslimin Yahaya (BERSATU)	19,791	38.75%		Saipolyazan Mat Yusop (PKR)	17,070	33.42%	51,070	2,721	79.32%
							Jamal Yunos (UMNO)	13,984	27.38%
							Asmawar Samat @Samad (PEJUANG)	225	0.44%

Honours

•  Malaysia :
  • Member of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (AMN) (2015)
•  Federal Territory (Malaysia) :
  • Commander of the Order of the Territorial Crown (PMW) – Datuk (2022)^[4]

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