KUALA LUMPUR: A number of candidates in the 16th Sabah State Election scraped through in winning their respective seats with the bare number of votes while some won with huge majority.
The Kukusan seat saw Parti Warisan Sabah's Rina Jainal carry the state seat with a razor-thin majority of 10 votes.
She garnered a total 2,834 votes against Barisan Nasional's (BN) Chaya Sulaiman who received 2,824 votes, making the tussle one of the closest in the polls. In the seven-cornered contest, five other candidates lost their respective deposits.
The other close call saw BN's Yakub Khan win the Karambunai state seat with slim majority of 16 votes.
He garnered 5,180 votes, against Warisan's Ahmad Jais Otong 5,164 votes, with LDP's Marajoh Unding (1,053); PCS's Dayangku Ayesha Humaira AK Othman Shah (315); PGRS's Nerudin Ludah (285); and USNO's Ibrahim Linggam (90).
At the other end of the scale, DAP Phoong Jin Zhe contesting under the Warisan Plus banner emerged victorious in the Luyang seat, securing 15,510 votes, winning by a huge majority of 14,521 majority, sending all of his five opponents home without their deposits.