The petition was brought by Gombak Setia voter Shaffie Omar, who sought costs and any relief deemed fit by the court. He wanted an order to overturn Hilman’s victory in the Aug 12 polls.
He had alleged that RM150 had been given as an inducement for voters during the Selangor polls between Aug 4 and 5.
In the state polls, Hilman had won the Gombak Setia seat with 30,299 votes, defeating Barisan Nasional’s Megat Zulkarnain Omardin (30,241 votes) and independent candidate Salim Ali (1,076 votes).
Ipoh High Court judge Abdul Wahab Mohamed, who sat as the election court judge, dismissed the petition with costs of RM25,000.
Hilman, a former PKR Youth deputy chief, had defeated Megat with a slim majority of 58 votes.
He was first elected Gombak Setia assemblyman in 2018, winning the seat on a PKR ticket with a majority of 12,399 votes.
Before this, both Pakatan Harapan and BN had considered filing election petitions to annul the results of the Taman Medan, Sungai Kandis, Gombak Setia and Dengkil state seats, where the victory margins were small.
PH later decided not to proceed with challenging the results of the Taman Medan, Sungai Kandis and Dengkil seats won by PN in August.
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