Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Dato' |
Masir Kujat | |
Birth Name: | Masir anak Kujat |
Birth Date: | 7 August 1954 |
Birth Place: | Crown Colony of Sarawak (now Sarawak, Malaysia) |
Citizenship: | Malaysian |
Constituency Mp1: | Sri Aman |
Parliament1: | Malaysian |
Term Start1: | 8 March 2008 |
Term End1: | 19 November 2022 |
Majority1: | 4,252 (2008) 6,550 (2013) 5,820 (2018) |
Predecessor1: | Jimmy Lim @ Jimmy Donald (BN) |
Successor1: | Doris Sophia Brodi (GPS–PBB) |
Office2: | Ministerial roles |
Subterm2: | 2015–2018 |
Suboffice2: | Deputy Minister of Home Affairs |
Office6: | Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat |
Subterm6: | 2008–2018 |
Suboffice6: | Barisan Nasional |
Subterm7: | 2018 |
Suboffice7: | Sarawak Peoples' Party |
Subterm8: | 2018–2019 |
Suboffice8: | Gabungan Parti Sarawak |
Subterm9: | 2019–2022 |
Suboffice9: | Sarawak United Party |
Subterm10: | 2022– |
Suboffice10: | Independent |
Party: | Independent (2022–2023) United Sarawak Party (2019–2022) Sarawak Peoples' Party (2008–2019) Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) |
Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional (2008–2018) Sarawak Parties Alliance (2018–2019) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Spouse: | Dora Jemat |
Dato' Masir anak Kujat (born 7 August 1954) is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sri Aman from March 2008 to November 2022.[1] He has been a member of the Parti Sarawak Bersatu (PSB) since 7 March 2019.[2] [3] [4] He left PSB to become an independent MP in March 2022.[5] Masir lost his Sri Aman federal seat on the November 2022 Malaysian general election to Doris Sophia Brodie from Gabungan Parti Sarawak in a 4-way fight. He previously served as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs II in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Najib Razak and former Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi from July 2015 to the power loss of BN coalition in May 2018.[6] He was a member of Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), a former component party of Barisan Nasional (BN) and now Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalitions, from 2008 to 2019.[7] [8] [9]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
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2008 | P202 Sri Aman | (PRS) | 9,700 | 64.03% | Cobbold Lusoi (IND) | 5,448 | 35.97% | 15,513 | 4,252 | 60.31% | ||||
2013 | (PRS) | 12,168 | 54.99% | Nicholas Mujah anak Ason (PKR) | 5,618 | 25.39% | 22,409 | 6,550 | 75.23% | |||||
Donald Lawan (IND) | 3,867 | 17.47% | ||||||||||||
bgcolor= | Wilfred Landong (SWP) | 476 | 2.15% | |||||||||||
2018 | (PRS) | 14,141 | 61.48% | Norina Umoi Utot (PKR) | 8,321 | 36.18% | 23,379 | 5,820 | 70.81% | |||||
bgcolor= | Cobbold Lusoi (PBDS) | 538 | 2.34% | |||||||||||
(IND) | 5,673 | 17.77% | (PRS) | 14,131 | 44.27% | 31,917 | 4,039 | 63.63% | ||||||
(PSB) | 10,092 | 31.62% | ||||||||||||
(PKR) | 2,021 | 6.33% |