# 2022 People's Justice Party leadership election

A leadership election was held by the People's Justice Party (PKR) in Malaysia from April to July 2022 to elect new leadership on the central level.
For the party presidency, it was highly unlikely for incumbent president Anwar Ibrahim to face any potential opponents and being defeated and he would hence remain as the party president given to his prominent and dominant position in the party and politics following the departure of former deputy president Azmin Ali, his followers and a number of founding members aligned to Azmin whom they were embroiled in splits and fallouts with Anwar and eventually resulted in the 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis which overthrew the democratically elected Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration. 2018 PKR election was repeated with Anwar remaining as the party president after he was elected by walkover as he was the sole candidate for the party presidency in the election.
For the party deputy presidency, it was expected to see a heated contest and fight between Rafizi Ramli, former candidate and loser to Azmin in 2018 and the incumbent vice-president, who announced his return to active politics on 15 March 2022, and Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, also a former candidate and loser to Azmin in 2014, the loyalist to Anwar and the incumbent secretary-general. Subsequently, on 29 May 2022, Rafizi defeated Saifuddin with an unexpected landslide victory in the unofficial results revealed. Saifuddin then conceded defeat and congratulated Rafizi on winning the PKR deputy presidency at night on the same day. On 4 July 2022, the results of the forensic audit of the unofficial results were revealed with a major change of the overturn of the victory in the contest for the position of Women Chief with initial winner Rodziah Ismail being edged out extremely narrowly by her opponent Fadhlina Sidek by a majority of mere 32 votes. Fadhlina was then declared the new Women Chief-elect. The rest of the results remained almost the same as the initial ones and no other major changes took place. The audit was done following complaints and allegations of the lack of freedom, fairness and transparency by some of the candidates.

## Timeline

| Dates | Events |
| 11 April 2022 | Nominations opened |
| 13 April 2022 | List of initial candidates revealed |
| 14–15 April 2022 | Declines of nominations |
| 16 April 2022 | Results of declines revealed |
| 17–19 April 2022 | Appeals for results |
| 20 April 2022 | List of final candidates revealed |
| 21 April 2022 | Deadline for virtual voters to update their mobile applications of voting |
| 13–22 May 2022 | Physical voting |
| 17 May 2022 | Virtual voting for overseas members |
| 18–20 May 2022 | Virtual voting |
| 29 May 2022 | Unofficial results revealed |
| 4 July 2022 | Results of the forensic audit of the unofficial results revealed |
| 15 July 2022 | Youth National Congress |
| 16 July 2022 | Women National Congress |
| 17 July 2022 | Central National Congress and official results revealed |

## Nominations & Results
### President

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Anwar Ibrahim | Won Uncontested |

### Deputy President

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Mohd Rafizi Ramli | 59,678 (58.12%) |
| Saifuddin Nasution Ismail | 43,010 (41.88%) |

### Vice Presidents

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Amirudin Shari | 46,075 |
| Chang Lih Kang | 34,939 |
| Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad | 34,496 |
| Aminuddin Harun | 33,230 |
| Manivannan Gowindasamy | 29,117 |
| Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak | 27,015 |
| Fahmi Fadzil | 24,351 |
| Fuziah Salleh | 22,534 |
| Chan Ming Kai | 22,344 |
| Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid | 20,761 |
| Gunarajah George | 20,164 |
| Shamsul Iskandar Md. Akin | 16,269 |
| Thiban Subramaniam | 15,155 |
| M. A. Tinagaran | 11,086 |
| Azan Ismail | 5,699 |
| Summugam Rengasamy | 5,313 |
| Mustaffa Kamil Ayub | 5,620 |

### Women Chief

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Fadhlina Sidek | 18,923 |
| Rodziah Ismail | 18,891 |

### Deputy Women Chief

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Juwairiya Zulkifli | 15,693 |
| Napsiah Khamis Maharan | 12,043 |
| Faizah Ariffin | 9,763 |

### Vice Women Chiefs

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Wasanthee Sinnasamy | 14,947 |
| June Leow Hsiad Hui | 13,358 |
| Sangetha Jayakumar | 13,350 |
| Loh Ker Chern | 12,942 |
| Siti Aishah Shaik Ismail | 12,273 |
| Junaidah Makku | 11,931 |
| Sabrina Ahmad | 9,080 |
| Shamala Vasudevan | 8,050 |
| Rufinah Pengeran | 5,307 |
| Hasmorni Tamby | 4,614 |

### Youth Chief (AMK)

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Adam Adli Abd Halim | 12,301 |
| Fahmi Zainol | 9,850 |

### Deputy Youth Chief

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Muhammad Kamil Abdul Munim | 11,526 |
| Chua Wei Kiat | 10,389 |

### Vice Youth Chiefs

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Atyrah Hanim Razali | 10,898 |
| Pravin Murali | 10,398 |
| Prasanth Kumar Brakasam | 10,330 |
| Mohd Izuan Ahmad Kassim | 10,291 |
| Ahmad Danish Hairudin | 10,081 |
| Wendy Agong Baruh | 7,936 |

### Central Leadership Council (MPP)

| Candidate | Members' votes |
| Maszlee Malik | 1,091 |
| Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir | 956 |
| Romli Ishak | 878 |
| Fahmi Zainol | 817 |
| Yahya Sahri | 804 |
| Nor Azrina Surip | 797 |
| Lee Chean Chung | 788 |
| Siti Aishah Shaik Ismail | 783 |
| Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh | 739 |
| Gerald Hans Isaac | 720 |
| Simon Ooi Tze Min | 703 |
| Wong Chen | 697 |
| Raiyan Abdul Rahim | 697 |
| Tan Kar Hing | 648 |
| Zahir Hassan | 642 |
| David Cheong Kian Young | 622 |
| Hee Loy Sian | 619 |
| Amidi Abdul Manan | 617 |
| Elizabeth Wong Keat Ping | 598 |
| Muhammad Bakhtiar Wan Chik | 594 |
| Muhamad Arafat Varisai Mahamad | 588 |
| Ginie Lim Siew Lin | 580 |
| Halim Bachik | 576 |
| Johari Abdul | 558 |
| Faizah Ariffin | 555 |
| Che Zam Hamzah | 549 |
| Abdul Halim Hussain | 539 |
| June Leow Hsiad Hui | 530 |
| Sivarasa Rasiah | 526 |
| Kesavan Subramaniam | 515 |
| Madhi Hasan | 506 |
| Rusnah Aluai | 495 |
| Awang Husaini Sahari | 492 |
| M Anbarasan Murugesu | 469 |
| Azmizam Zaman Huri | 455 |
| Loh Ker Chean | 444 |
| Gooi Hsiao Leung | 434 |
| Zaidi Ahmad | 432 |
| Jimmy Puah Wee Tse | 428 |
| Abg Zulkifli Abg Engkeh | 410 |
| Maria Chin Abdullah | 409 |
| Mustapa Mansor Amer Mohd Isa | 396 |
| Mohd Amin Abdul Mem | 388 |
| Mohd Najwan Halimi | 387 |
| Afdlin Shauki Aksan | 343 |
| Zinda Khalil Sastro Hassan | 339 |
| Zamri Yusuf | 330 |
| Baldip Singh Santokh | 314 |
| Gopalakrishnan Subramaniam | 300 |
| Gunarajah George | 292 |
| Shatiri Mansor | 282 |
| Yaakob Sapari | 277 |
| Ravi Munusamy | 263 |
| Adzman Kamaruddin | 263 |
| Zulkifly Mohamad | 262 |
| Mohd Aizuddin Ariffin | 261 |
| Mohd Zukri Aksah | 251 |
| Tan Chin Wuu | 238 |
| Zaidi Yusoff | 229 |
| Nor Irwan Ahmat Nor | 207 |
| Halim Khomiza | 207 |
| Abdul Razak Ismail | 202 |
| Karupaiya Mutusami | 191 |
| Maneyvannan Velue | 140 |
| Arastam I.m Pandorog | 131 |
| Zulqarnian Zakariah | 91 |
| Ong Khan Lee | 73 |
| Tee Choon Keong | 61 |
| Mohd Zawawi Ahmad Mughi (Withdraw himself) | 35 |
| Mohd Rafee Ibrahim (Withdraw himself) | 22 |
| Mohd Fakhrulrazi Mohd Mokhtar (Withdraw himself) | 18 |
| Mustapha @ Mohd Yunus Sakmud (Withdraw himself) | 16 |
| Disqualified | 6 |