John Fernandez (Tamil: ஜான் பெர்னாண்டஸ்; 9 December 1941 – 26 December 2023) was a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Seremban from March 2008 to May 2013. He was an independent and a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of formerly the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition.
Fernandez was a lawyer who was first called to the Bar in 1975. He first ran for the state seat of Jimah in 1986 under the Malaysian Workers Party, before being elected to Parliament in the 2008 general election, winning the seat of Seremban for DAP from the governing Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
He left DAP to protest the lack of Indian candidates nominated to contest in the 2013 general election. He nominated himself as an independent candidate to defend the Seremban seat. He was defeated by Anthony Loke Siew Fook of his former party DAP and coalition PR by a minority of 45,407 votes after garnering only 221 votes and lost his election deposit after failing to garner 12.5% of the total votes cast.
Death Fernandez died on 26 December 2023, at the age of 82.Former DAP MP John Fernandez dies at 82
Election results + Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly Percentage figures based on total turnout. Results only available from the 2004 election.YearConstituencyCandidateVotesPctOpponent(s)VotesPctBallots castMajorityTurnout1986N23 Jimah (PPPM)640.66%Yeow Chai Thiam (MCA) 4,57146.82%9,762 22478.33%M Kuppusamy (DAP)4,795 49.12%2004N33 Port Dickson (DAP)3,06136.63%Rajagopalu Thamotharapillay (MIC) 4,95459.29%8,3561,89368.44%
+ Parliament of MalaysiaYearConstituencyCandidateVotesPctOpponent(s)VotesPctBallots castMajorityTurnout2008P128 Seremban (DAP)32,97053.18%Yu Chok Tow (MCA)29,02246.82%64,437 3,94876.10% 2013 (IND) 2210.26% (DAP)45,62853.12%87,61712,55385.64%Yeow Chai Thiam (MCA) 33,07538.52% (Berjasa) 6,8668.00%Bujang Abu (IND) 830.10%
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