Although he lost his deposit, Huan is also happy to have received 3,583 votes as it is close to double that which he garnered in Batu Kawan, where he contested in the 13th general election.
"I hope my supporters will not be upset because this is merely an ordinary battle, it is not a war. Although I lost, but I was able to bring down DAP's majority.
"During nomination, (Ramkarpal Singh, left) said (he) wanted to achieve a bigger majority compared to his father, the late Karpal Singh who garnered more than 41,000 majority votes.
“But since he is only able to secure a majority of 37,000-plus, please don't spin or give excuses like low turnout,” he said at a press conference.
Ramkarpal won with a majority of 37,659 votes, having obtained a whopping 89 percent of votes cast.
His late father, Karpal, won with a majority of 41, 778 votes (79 percent of votes cast).
Huan added that while he was 2,000 votes shy of his target of retaining his deposit, he is still happy as PCM is a tiny party compared to heavyweight Pakatan Rakyat parties.
"Whereas, they using all machinery to run me down during the campaign, is not easy to face big guns like (DAP supremo) Lim Kit Siang, (PKR de facto leader) Anwar Ibrahim and PAS leaders."
"Furthermore, pro-Pakatan online portals such as The Malaysian Insider and Malaysian Chronicle kept attacking me.
“A lot of young people read this kind of news portals but I don't have any ill feelings towards them,” he said.
Tomorrow never dies
He added that he is mulling lodging a report to the Election Commission (EC) over alleged polls infringements.
"I'm not a sore loser, I feel okay about losing in the election, but please contest in a healthy manner,” he said.
"In any contest, there is winner and loser. The winner needs to serve the people and tomorrow is still waiting for the loser."
He also denied claims that Umno had backed him, resulting in him winning more votes than Ramkarpal in the Sungai Gelugor polling district.
He argued that if Umno was backing him, he would not have lost his deposit as Malay voters make up 14 per cent of the constituency, or about 6,000 voters.
Meanwhile, Independent candidate Mohamed Nabi Bux Mohd Nabi Abdul Sathar said his defeat is not unexpected and will not deter him from participating in future elections.
“I accept the results. It is obvious the DAP will get the votes because it is a Chinese-majority area. I will try to contest against in the next election, maybe in (Malay-majority) Shah Alam,” he said when contacted.
Mohamed Nabi Bux garnered 799 votes or 1.9 percent of votes cast.
The other Independent candidate Abu Backer Sidek Mohamad Zan fared worse with 255 votes (0.5 percent), although he pulled out of the race the day before polling.
Abu Backer injected amusement into the by-election through his dramatic campaign antics, which included throwing himself in front of Penang chief minister Lim Guan Eng's moving car (above).
Malaysiakini
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