Abidin Madingkir
Malaysian politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Datuk Abidin bin Madingkir (born 28 November 1953) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the State Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister of Sabah in the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) state administration under Chief Minister Hajiji Noor since October 2020 as well as Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Paginatan since May 2018. He is a member of the Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) a component party of the GRS and formerly Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalitions and was a member of the United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Barisan Nasional (BN) coalitions.[1][2][3][4][5] He is also the former Mayor of Kota Kinabalu City Hall and the first native Ranau Dusun to hold this position, after retiring optionally from the Sabah civil service aged 58 in 2011.
Abidin Madingkir | |
|---|---|
| State Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister of Sabah | |
| Assumed office 8 October 2020 Serving with Wetrom Bahanda (2020–2022) & Nizam Abu Bakar Titingan (since 2022) & Ruslan Muharam (since 2023) | |
| Governor | Juhar Mahiruddin |
| Chief Minister | Hajiji Noor |
| Preceded by | Jimmy Wong Sze Phin |
| Constituency | Paginatan |
| Vice President of the Homeland Solidarity Party (Non-Muslim Bumiputera) | |
| Assumed office 22 October 2021 Serving with Paul Porodong (Non-Muslim Bumiputera) (2021–2024) & Suling Isib (Non-Muslim Bumiputera) (since 2024) & Annuar Ayub (Muslim Bumiputera) (2021–2024), (Appointed) (since 2024) & Apas Nawawi Saking (Muslim Bumiputera) (since 2021) & Mohd Lin Harun (Muslim Bumiputera) (since 2024) & Stephen Teo (Chinese) (2021–2024) & Kong Soon Choi (Chinese) (since 2024) & Beverley Natalie Koh (Chinese) (since 2024) & Flovia Ng (Appointed) (since 2024) | |
| President | Jeffrey Kitingan |
| Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Paginatan | |
| Assumed office 9 May 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Siringan Gubat (BN–UPKO) |
| Majority | 2,066 (2018) 1,323 (2020) |
| Faction represented in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly | |
| 2018–2019 | United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation |
| 2019–2020 | United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation |
| 2020– | Gabungan Rakyat Sabah |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Abidin bin Madingkir 28 November 1953 Ranau, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) |
| Citizenship | Malaysian |
| Political party | United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO) (until 2020) Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) (since 2020) |
| Other political affiliations | Barisan Nasional (BN) (until 2018)  Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) (since 2020) |
| Spouse | Florence Malangkig |
| Occupation | Politician |
Election results
| Year | Constituency | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | N31 Paginatan | Abidin Madingkir (UPKO) | 5,666 | 48.83% | Julian Sidin (WARISAN) | 3,600 | 31.01% | 11,905 | 2,066 | 77.70% | ||
| Padderin Tuliang (STAR) | 1,870 | 16.12% | ||||||||||
| Satiol Indong (PCS) | 362 | 3.14% | ||||||||||
| Mat Jaili Samat (PPRS) | 104 | 0.90% | ||||||||||
| 2020 | N38 Paginatan | Abidin Madingkir (STAR) | 3,783 | 35.65% | Junaidi Sahat (UMNO) | 2,460 | 23.18% | 10,612 | 1,323 | 68.86% | ||
| Arthur Sen Siong Choo (PBS) | 1,588 | 14.96% | ||||||||||
| Georgina George (UPKO) | 1,245 | 11.73% | ||||||||||
| Amru Abd Kadir (PCS) | 905 | 8.53% | ||||||||||
| Henrynus Amin (PKAN) | 349 | 3.29% | ||||||||||
| Liong Sun Min (LDP) | 118 | 1.11% | ||||||||||
| Kamil Kasibun (USNO Baru) | 112 | 1.06% | ||||||||||
| Bensin Dani (GAGASAN) | 52 | 0.49% | ||||||||||
Honours
Honours of Malaysia
Malaysia :
Companion of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (JSM) (2010)
Sabah :
Commander of the Order of Kinabalu (PGDK) – Datuk (1998)- Justice of the Peace (JP) (2012)[10]
References
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.