Name Rashid Din Religion Sunni Islam | Occupation Politician Role Historian | |
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Preceded by Zainuddin Maidin (UMNO–BN) Born 29 July 1946
Penang, Malayan Union (now Malaysia) ( 1946-07-29 ) Died July 18, 1318, Tabriz, Iran Books Jami' al-tawarikh, The Successors of Genghis Khan | ||
Succeeded by Ismail Daut (UMNO–BN) Political party PKR–Pakatan Rakyat | ||
Party polls will not be postponed, says PKR
Dato' Rashid Din (born 29 July 1946) was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Merbok constituency in the state of Kedah from 2008 to 2013. He sat in Parliament as a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR) in the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
Rashid won the seat of Merbok in the 2008 election. The seat, previously held comfortably by the Barisan Nasional coalition, swung to the PKR for Rashid to win it by 3,098 votes. Rashid was replaced as the PKR's candidate for the seat at the 2013 election, and the party lost the seat to the Barisan Nasional's Ismail Daut.
In January 2010, Rashid was conferred the honorific title of Datuk by Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah.
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