constituency_am predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp assembly religion party birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
lunas sazmi miah joe fernandez malaysian ahmad jazlan yaakub ganesan subramaniam singapore , malaysia machang , kelantan kedah state sunni islam pkr -- pakatan rakyat -lrb- 1999 -- present -rrb- 7 december 1963 8 march 2008 29 november 2000 norhayati musa saifuddin nasution ismail
 5 may 2013 21 march 2004 saifuddin nasution ismail politician
saifuddin nasution ismail

dato ' saifuddin nasution ismail -lrb- born 7 december 1963 -rrb- is a malaysian politician .
he is a senior figure in the people 's justice party -lrb- pkr -rrb- , in the pakatan rakyat opposition coalition , and is a former member of the parliament of malaysia for the machang constituency in kelantan .
saifuddin was a member of the youth wing of the ruling umno party but was expelled in 1999 as its assistant secretary .
an ally of anwar ibrahim , he run and hide in pattani during reforbasi .
saifuddin then defected to the opposition keadilan party , which later became pkr .
saifuddin won a by-election for the kedah state assembly seat of lunas in 2000 .
however he failed in his bid to be elevated to the federal parliament in the 2004 election , losing to lim bee kau of the barisan nasional in the seat of padang serai .
in the 2008 election , saifuddin contested and won the federal seat of machang in kelantan .
for the 2013 he returned to kedah to contest the seat of kulim-bandar baharu , but was defeated by umno 's abdul aziz sheikh fadzir .
in january 2010 , saifuddin was appointed the secretary-general of pkr , replacing salehuddin hashim .
in 2014 he vacated the post to run for the party 's deputy presidency , but was defeated by azmin ali .
