Ahmad Yahaya

Ahmad bin Saad @ Yahaya^[1][2] or commonly known as Ahmad Yahaya is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Pokok Sena since November 2022. He had served as Member of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Alor Mengkudu from May 2013 to May 2018. He is a member of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), a component party of the Perikatan Nasional (PN) and formerly Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions. He has served as the Head of the Dewan Ulamak of PAS since 2021 and State Commissioner of PAS of Kedah since 2019.

Yang Berhormat Dato' Ustaz Ahmad Saad @ Yahaya DSDK BKM MP
أحمد سعاد @ يحيى‎
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Pokok Sena
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 December 2022
Preceded by	Mahfuz Omar (PH–AMANAH)
Majority	31,751 (2022)
Senator Elected by the Kedah State Legislative Assembly
In office 2 September 2020 – 5 November 2022 Serving with Othman Aziz
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Muhyiddin Yassin (2020–2021) Ismail Sabri Yaakob (2021–2022)
Preceded by	Mohd Suhaimi Abdullah & Ananthan Somasundaram
Succeeded by	Abdul Nasir Idris & Musoddak Ahmad
Head of Dewan Ulamak of the Malaysian Islamic Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 2021
President	Abdul Hadi Awang
Deputy	Zulkifli Ismail
Preceded by	Nik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh
State Commissioner of the Malaysian Islamic Party of Kedah
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 July 2019
President	Abdul Hadi Awang
Deputy	Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor (Deputy Commissioner I) Ahmad Fakhruddin Fakhrurazi (Deputy Commissioner II) Muhammad Suffian Yusoff (Deputy Commissioner III)
Preceded by	Ahmad Fakhruddin Fakhrurazi
Member of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly for Alor Mengkudu
In office 5 May 2013 – 9 May 2018
Preceded by	Ismail Salleh (PR–PAS)
Succeeded by	Phahrolrazi Mohd Zawawi (PH–AMANAH)
Majority	1,865 (2013)
Personal details
Born	Ahmad bin Saad @ Yahaya (1975) Jitra, Kedah, Malaysia
Political party	Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)
Other political affiliations	Pakatan Rakyat (PR) (2008–2015) Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) (2016–2020) Perikatan Nasional (PN) (since 2020)
Residence(s)	Alor Setar, Kedah
Alma mater	Universitas Islam Riau
Occupation	Politician

Election results

Kedah State Legislative Assembly^[3][4]

Year	Constituency	Candidate		Votes	Pct	Opponent(s)		Votes	Pct	Ballots cast	Majority	Turnout
2013	N14 Alor Mengkudu		Ahmad Saad Yahaya (PAS)	11,453	53.60%		Sharifah Maznah Syed Kassim Barakbah (UMNO)	9,588	44.88%	21,366	1,865	85.34%
							Fadzil Hanafi (IND)	325	1.52%
2018			Ahmad Saad Yahaya (PAS)	6,964	31.32%		Phahrolrazi Mohd Zawawi (AMANAH)	8,840	39.75%	22,238	1,876	81.96%
							Abdul Malik Saat (UMNO)	6,434	28.93%

Parliament of Malaysia^{[5][6][7][8][3][4]}

Year	Constituency	Candidate		Votes	Pct	Opponent(s)		Votes	Pct	Ballots cast	Majority	Turnout
2022	P008 Pokok Sena		Ahmad Saad Yahaya (PAS)	52,275	59.44%		Mahfuz Omar (AMANAH)	20,524	23.34%	88,976	31,751	76.58%
							Noran Zamini Jamaluddin (UMNO)	14,523	16.51%
							Noraini Md Salleh (WARISAN)	622	0.71%

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

• Malaysia :
  • Recipient of the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (2024)
• Kedah :
  • Knight Companion of the Order of Loyalty to the Royal House of Kedah (DSDK) – Dato' (2021)^[9]
  • Recipient of the Public Service Star (BKM) (2009)^[10]

See also

• Members of the Dewan Negara, 14th Malaysian Parliament
• List of people who have served in both Houses of the Malaysian Parliament