Following Pakatan Harapan's defeat in Semenyih today, Bersatu deputy president Mukhriz Mahathir said the coalition must strive to address its mistakes and weaknesses.

"We have tried our best to win, but the people know what they want. So we accept it with an open heart.

"Where we have made mistakes or there are weaknesses, we must do our best to remedy it," Mukhriz told reporters in Semenyih today, but added that Harapan is yet to determine the factors behind its defeat in the by-election.

Harapan had wrested the seat from BN in May last year, but was rebuffed by voters today.

BN won back the seat today with 19,780 votes, a 1,914-majority over Harapan (17,866 votes).

With this victory, BN now has five seats in the Selangor state assembly, while Harapan's seat share is reduced to 50. PAS has one seat.


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