Anwar Ibrahim wins overwhelming mandate in Malaysian parliamentary by-election

Ibrahim won an overwhelming mandate in a parliamentary by-election on Saturday.

Anwar Ibrahim won an overwhelming mandate in a parliamentary by-election on Saturday, setting the stage for his return to frontline Malaysian politics and sealing the once-jailed opposition figure's remarkable resurrection.

Figures from the Election Commission showed he got more than 71 per cent of the total votes cast in a seven-way contest that included a former aide who lodged the sodomy charges that landed Anwar in prison for the second time in 2014.