In its second re-election since 2012, DAP delegates have chosen to retain 90 percent of its central executive committee (CEC), with party veteran Lim Kit Siang reclaiming the top spot.

But not all of the same faces remain, as the CEC has decided to undertake a major reshuffle of its appointed members.

Of the leaders that delegates voted for today, 18 out 20 were retained.

The two individuals who are no longer in the CEC are former committee member Boo Cheng Hau, who obtained 384 votes, and late chairperson Karpal Singh, who died in a car accident in 2014.

Despite being deceased, Karpal still received 43 votes.

The newcomers replacing Boo and Karpal are Ronnie Liu, with 688 votes, and V Sivakumar, with 586 votes.

After the elections, the new CEC dropped most of the leaders appointed to the committee in 2013.

Those dropped include Kepong MP Tan Seng Giaw, Penang deputy chief minister II P Ramasamy, Arrifin Omar, Kota Kinabalu MP Jimmy Wong, Vincent Wu and Leong Ngah Ngah.

Kapayan state assemblyperson Edwin Bosi had also been appointed to the central committee in 2013, but he quit the party in August.

They have been replaced with new appointees, namely Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji, Sandakan MP Stephen Wong, Jannie Lasimbang, Ayer Keroh state assemblyperson Khoo Poay Tiong, Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming, DAP Youth chief Wong Kah Woh, Selangor state assembly speaker Hannah Yeoh and Damansara Utama rep Yeo Bee Yin.

Thomas Su and John Brian Anthony were reappointed to the central committee.

Asked about the reshuffle of appointees, DAP organising secretary Anthony Loke said that this was an effort to "rejuvenate" the party by adding in "fresh blood."

Newly re-elected DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, told a press conference that the new CEC would have the difficult task of preparing for the 14th general election.

DAP grudgingly held the re-election on the instruction of the Registrar of Societies, due to supposed problems in the delegates’ list used for the 2013 re-election.

In 2013, DAP had voluntarily held a re-election, after an Excel spreadsheet error affected the results of the initial election held in 2012.

In the 2013 re-election, there was a surprise upset when Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong took the top spot in the party polls, above Kit Siang.

This time, Liew fell to the fifth spot with 1,123 votes, while Kit Siang topped the list again with 1,199 votes.

Puchong MP Gobind Singh Deo also climbed the ranks from fourth in the 2013 re-elections to second, losing to Kit Siang by only one vote, at 1,198.

While the 2013 re-election saw a total of 1,725 votes cast, this year’s re-election had 1,346 votes, with 36 spoilt votes. The counting of the votes took about three hours, from 2pm to around 5pm.

The results of the CEC polls, which was held in Shah Alam today, are as follows: