Suhaizan Kayat

Yang Berhormat Tuan
Suhaizan Kayat
MP
Yang Berhormat Tuan Suhaizan Kayat MP
سحيزان كايت
Political Secretary to the ; Minister of Domestic Trade and Living Costs
	In office; 6 January 2023 – 12 December 2023
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Anwar Ibrahim
Minister	Salahuddin Ayub ; (January–July 2023) ; Armizan Mohd Ali ; (Acting, July–December 2023)
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Ghazali Hajiji
Speaker of the ; Johor State Legislative Assembly
	In office; 28 June 2018 – 22 January 2022
Monarch	Ibrahim Iskandar
Menteri Besar	Osman Sapian ; (2018–2019) ; Sahruddin Jamal ; (2019–2020) ; Hasni Mohammad ; (2020–2022)
Deputy	Gan Peck Cheng
Preceded by	Mohamad Aziz
Succeeded by	Mohd Puad Zarkashi
Constituency	Non-MLA
Member of the Malaysian Parliament; for Pulai
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 9 September 2023
Preceded by	Salahuddin Ayub ; (PH–AMANAH)
Majority	18,641 (2023)
Personal details
Born	Suhaizan bin Kayat; 13 April 1973 (age 51); Kampung Sungai Sudah, Muar, Johor, Malaysia
Citizenship	Malaysian
Political party	Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) ; (–2015) ; National Trust Party (AMANAH) ; (since 2015)
Other political; affiliations	Pakatan Rakyat (PR) ; (2008–2015) ; Pakatan Harapan (PH) ; (since 2015)
Spouse	Norsham Idris
Occupation	Politician

Suhaizan bin Kayat is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pulai since September 2023.^[1] He served as Political Secretary to the Ministers of Domestic Trade and Living Costs Salahuddin Ayub and Armizan Mohd Ali from January to December 2023 and Speaker of the Johor State Legislative Assembly from June 2018 to January 2022.^[2]^[3] He is a member, State Vice Chairman of Johor and Division Chief of Pulai of the National Trust Party (AMANAH), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.

Education

He received his early education at Sekolah Kebangsaan Parit Nawi, Muar and Sekolah Agama Seri Menanti, Muar (Special Degree). Then he continued his secondary schooling at Sekolah Menengah Seri Menanti, Muar and finally at Sekolah Agama Parit Nawi.

After graduating from high school, he continued his studies at the university and was awarded a bachelor's degree and Master of Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai.

He is active in the student association at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Among the positions he holds, include as Exco and Vice President of the UTM Student Association.

Community activities

He is also active in community activities. He has been appointed as the Development Secretary of Taman Universiti Skudai Mosque, Secretary of the Movement to Abolish PPSMI (GMP), Secretary of the People's Land Coalition (TANAH), Advisor of the Kempas People's Action Action Committee and Simpang Renggam People's Action Committee Advisor.

Politics

He started venturing into politics by joining PAS. Among his important positions in PAS, include as Johor PAS Youth Council Chief, Central PAS Youth Council Information Chief, Gelang Patah PAS Youth Council Chief, Pulai PAS Committee Member and Pos Malaysia Voting Committee Chairman.

He was appointed as the Speaker of the Johor State Legislative Assembly by former Menteri Besar Osman Sapian from Pakatan Harapan (PH) on 28 June 2018 after Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration was removed in the 2018 state election and has been retained as Speaker by Menteri Besar Hasni Mohammad from BN even the PH state administration was overthrown by BN in February 2020. Hence, this became one of a few cases which the speaker is from the opposition instead of either being independent or from the government. He was the only speaker from the opposition in Malaysia. After BN returned to the state government following its victory in the 2022 Johor state election, he and Gan Peck Cheng were not reappointed as speaker and deputy speaker of the assembly.

Election results

**Parliament of Malaysia**^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]
Year	Constituency		Votes	Pct		Votes	Pct	Ballots cast	Majority	Turnout
2004	P147 Parit Sulong	Suhaizan Kayat (PAS)	9,788	26.63%	Syed Hood Syed Edros (UMNO)	26,974	73.37%	38,116	17,186	76.03%
2013	P151 Simpang Renggam	Suhaizan Kayat (PAS)	14,048	41.56%	Liang Teck Meng (Gerakan)	19,754	58.44%	34,670	5,706	87.62%
2023	P161 Pulai	Suhaizan Kayat (AMANAH)	48,283	61.54%	Zulkifli Jaafar (BERSATU)	29,642	37.78%	78,453	18,641	47.08%
2023	P161 Pulai	Suhaizan Kayat (AMANAH)	48,283	61.54%	Samsudin Mohamad Fauzi (IND)	528	0.67%	78,453	18,641	47.08%

**Johor State Legislative Assembly**^[9]^[10]
Year	Constituency		Votes	Pct		Votes	Pct	Ballots cast	Majority	Turnout%
2008	N47 Kempas	Suhaizan Kayat (PAS)	7,711	32.66%	Osman Sapian (UMNO)	15,897	67.34%	24,102	8,186	73.13%
2013	N47 Kempas	Suhaizan Kayat (PAS)	14,648	44.06%	Tengku Putra Haron Aminurrashid (UMNO)	18,595	55.94%	33,737	3,947	86.10%
2018	N56 Kukup	Suhaizan Kayat (AMANAH)	10,251	45.76%	Mohd Othman Yusof (UMNO)	11,113	49.60%	22,863	862	84.90%
2018	N56 Kukup	Suhaizan Kayat (AMANAH)	10,251	45.76%	Karim Deraman (PAS)	1,040	4.64%	22,863	862	84.90%
2022	N54 Pulai Sebatang	Suhaizan Kayat (AMANAH)	6,148	24.67%	Hasrunizah Hassan (UMNO)	12,473	50.06%	25,616	6,325	54.51%
					Abdullah Husin (PAS)	5,967	23.95%
					Abdul Rashid Abdul Hadi (PEJUANG)	329	1.32%