Candidate · P159 Pasir Gudang (2022)
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Records show senior elected office (sitting MP, former state party chairman and select-committee chairman) plus a 2015 sedition prosecution that ended in discharge and full acquittal, so enhanced due diligence is warranted on the legal file and on the wholly undocumented corporate and financial side.
Electoral resilience
High
Two consecutive wins in Pasir Gudang, with a 24,726 majority in 2018 rising to 31,558 in 2022, after six recorded defeats between 1982 and 2013.
Political continuity
Elevated
Contested under PSRM/HAK, PRM, PKR/PR and PKR/PH banners across four decades, and resigned as Johor party chairman in July 2019 after about seven months in the post.
Integrity signal
Review
Three sedition counts were filed in 2015; the matter ended in a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in May 2018 and a full acquittal by the Shah Alam High Court on 10 May 2019. No other integrity matter appears in the records.
Financial / corporate
Open
Records contain no company-registry, GLC, foundation, asset-declaration, credit or bankruptcy checks; no corporate role is documented.
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Sitting member of the Dewan Rakyat and former state party chairman and parliamentary select-committee chairman; exposure flows from the offices themselves.
Documented party leadership in Johor (2018-19) and a federal-state relations committee chairmanship (2018-22); no business or personal networks beyond roles are documented.
No procurement, tender, contract or constituency-project records are supplied, so this area cannot be assessed from the material provided.
No company, GLC or foundation appointments appear in the records; registry checks have not been covered.
A 2015 three-count sedition prosecution concluded with a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in 2018 and a full acquittal in 2019.
Records show no conviction and no regulatory finding; the only criminal charges were discharged and then fully acquitted.
No asset declarations, income or financial records are provided for review.
Reported public interventions on the MACC handling of a former premier's investigation and on the timing of GE16, plus earlier sedition-case coverage, give him a notable public profile to monitor.
Charged at the Shah Alam Sessions Court on 16 November 2015 with three counts of making seditious statements through his public Twitter account; the prosecution later dropped the charges, leading to a discharge not amounting to an acquittal in May 2018 and a full acquittal by the Shah Alam High Court on 10 May 2019.N9N8N7
Status: Concluded: discharge not amounting to an acquittal (May 2018), then full acquittal (10 May 2019).
The public record on Hassan bin Abdul Karim consists mainly of official election results plus a small set of reported biographical, party and legal items. It shows a long parliamentary aspirant who lost repeatedly from 1982 under PSRM/HAK and PRM before winning Pasir Gudang for PKR/PH in 2018 and 2022, and who held a state party chairmanship and a parliamentary select-committee chairmanship for part of that period. The one integrity matter on file, a 2015 three-count sedition prosecution, ended in a discharge not amounting to an acquittal and then a full acquittal, so it is a resolved matter rather than a live one. Corporate, financial, procurement and registry dimensions are entirely uncovered in these records and should be treated as open verification gaps, not as favourable findings.
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According to Wikidata, Hassan bin Abdul Karim was born on 1951-10-17 in Federation of Malaya.
“date of birth: 1951-10-17; place of birth: Federation of Malaya”
According to Wikipedia, Hassan bin Abdul Karim has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pasir Gudang since May 2018.
“is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pasir Gudang since May 2018.”
According to Wikipedia, Hassan bin Abdul Karim served as chairman of the Federal-State Relations Select Committee from December 2018 to November 2022.
“He was chairman of the Federal-State Relations Select Committee from December 2018 to November 2022.”
According to Wikipedia, Hassan bin Abdul Karim served as state chairman of the party's Johor branch from December 2018 until his resignation in July 2019.
“served as the state chairman of its Johor branch from December 2018 until his resignation in July 2019.”
According to Wikidata, Hassan bin Abdul Karim held the position of member of the Dewan Rakyat for Pasir Gudang (Pakatan Harapan), from 2022.
“position held: member of the Dewan Rakyat; electoral district: Pasir Gudang; parliamentary group: Pakatan Harapan; start: 2022-11-19”
According to Wikidata, Hassan bin Abdul Karim was educated at Universiti Malaya.
“educated at: Universiti Malaya”
According to Wikidata, Hassan bin Abdul Karim was educated at University of London.
“educated at: University of London”
According to Wikidata, Hassan bin Abdul Karim held the position of member of the Dewan Rakyat.
“position held: member of the Dewan Rakyat”
According to Wikidata, Hassan bin Abdul Karim was a member of Parti Rakyat Malaysia.
“member of political party: Parti Rakyat Malaysia”
Arrests, charges, convictions, sentences, acquittals and pardons as reported by credible sources. Each item is marked with its stage — a charge is not a conviction — and outcomes are listed where reported.
According to Wikipedia, Hassan was charged at the Shah Alam Sessions Court with three counts of making seditious statements via his public Twitter account on 16 November 2015.
“On 16 November 2015, Hassan was charged at the Shah Alam Sessions Court with three counts of making seditious statements via his public Twitter account in which he was alleged to have criticised the Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah being abroad during Selangor Mentri Besar crisis in 2014.”
According to Wikipedia, Hassan was discharged not amounting to an acquittal by the Sessions Court in May 2018, following the prosecution's decision to drop the sedition charges.
“He was discharged not amounting to an acquittal by the Sessions Court in May 2018, following the prosecution's decision to drop the charges.”
According to Wikipedia, Hassan was granted a full acquittal on the sedition charges by the Shah Alam High Court on 10 May 2019.
“On 10 May 2019, he was finally granted a full acquittal on the sedition charges by the Shah Alam High Court.”
Allegations and investigations as reported by credible outlets. An allegation is not a finding; read each with its stage and source.
Sinar Harian reported that Hassan Abdul Karim urged the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (SPRM) to conduct a more professional and ethical investigation into former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri, questioning why evidence was disclosed to the public through a press conference before the investigation was completed.
“Saya yakin dengan kemampuan SPRM, bagaimanapun dalam kes ini jelas ada pelanggaran etika dan profesionalisme.”
The Edge Malaysia reported that Pasir Gudang MP Hassan Abdul Karim urged Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim not to hastily dissolve Parliament and to complete the government's full mandate until late 2027 or early 2028, so that economic policies would have time to deliver results, rather than calling GE16 promptly after PKR's setbacks in recent Sabah, Johor and Negeri Sembilan state elections.
“Convince our leader Anwar Ibrahim not to act hastily. Encourage him to govern the country well until the full mandate ends, which is by the end of 2027 or early 2028,”
Contested 9 elections, won 2.
| Election | Seat | Ticket | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE15 (2022) | P159 Pasir Gudang | PKR · PH | 71,233 47.7% | Won by 31,558 |
| GE14 (2018) | P159 Pasir Gudang | PKR · PH | 61,615 58.7% | Won by 24,726 |
| GE13 (2013) | P144 Ledang | PKR · PR | 28,652 48.3% | 2nd of 2 |
| GE12 (2008) | P160 Johor Bahru | PRM | 17,794 29.2% | 2nd of 2 |
| GE11 (2004) | P164 Pontian | PKR · BA | 5,509 17.1% | 2nd of 2 |
| GE10 (1999) | P140 Tebrau | PRM · BA | 13,799 21.9% | 2nd of 2 |
| Johor state election 1986 | N30 Pasir Gudang | PSRM · HAK | 11,103 45.0% | 2nd of 2 |
| GE7 (1986) | P129 Tebrau | PSRM · HAK | 16,085 37.2% | 2nd of 2 |
| Johor state election 1982 | N30 Skudai | PSRM | 6,287 22.8% | 2nd of 2 |
Official gazetted results via the Malaysian Election Corpus (grade A record).
Collected automatically from credible outlets and Wikipedia, then cross-checked: Verified items match the official record, Confirmed items were reported by two or more different outlets, and single-source items are one outlet’s report. Partisan and anonymous claims are never shown.