Candidate · P130 Tawau (1978)
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Overall due diligence
Insufficient evidence
The supplied records consist only of two official election results (1976, 1978) with no reporting, legal, corporate or financial material, which is too thin to assess.
Electoral resilience
Medium
Records show two wins: N48 Bandar Tawau in 1976 (3,445 votes, majority 1,325) and P130 Tawau in GE5 1978 (7,889 votes, majority 5,089). Only two contests across two years are covered, so the trend base is narrow.
Political continuity
Open
The records cover only 1976-1978 and show BERJAYA then BERJAYA/BN labels; no later party or coalition movement is documented.
Integrity signal
Open
No allegation, charge, case or acquittal appears in the records. Absence of such material is not evidence of a clean record.
Financial / corporate
Open
No company-registry (SSM), GLC, asset-declaration, credit or financial-disclosure checks are covered by the records.
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Records show election to a state assembly seat and to parliament, which carries PEP exposure by virtue of the office itself.
Records document party labels only; no relationships, appointments or alliances are recorded.
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No directorships, shareholdings or statutory-body positions appear in the records.
No court or legal matters are recorded.
No regulatory, investigative or criminal findings are recorded.
No asset declarations, disclosures or financial records are covered.
No media reporting is included; only official election results.
The available public record on Hiew Nyuk Yin is limited to two official election results: a 1976 win in the Sabah state seat of N48 Bandar Tawau for BERJAYA and a 1978 win in the parliamentary seat of P130 Tawau for BERJAYA/BN, both by wide margins. Nothing in the records covers corporate interests, finance, litigation, procurement or media reputation, and no activity after 1978 is documented. Because the material is this thin, no overall risk judgement can be supported and enhanced due diligence is not indicated on what is shown; the next step is documentary retrieval from SSM, court registries, MACC and Hansard rather than further analysis of these two results.
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Contested 2 elections, won 2.
| Election | Seat | Ticket | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GE5 (1978) | P130 Tawau | BERJAYA · BN | 7,889 54.8% | Won by 5,089 |
| Sabah state election 1976 | N48 Bandar Tawau | BERJAYA | 3,445 61.9% | Won by 1,325 |
Official gazetted results via the Malaysian Election Corpus (grade A record).
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