KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Harapan candidate Kerk Chee Yee, 34, emerged as the youngest winner in the 16th Melaka election, while Chief Minister-elect Datuk Seri Ab Rauf Yusoh, 65, was the oldest.

Kerk polled 14,078 votes in a four-cornered contest for the Ayer Keroh state seat, defeating Perikatan Nasional candidate Gan Peng Lam (8,474 votes), Muhammad Muhaimin Lau Abdullah of Bersama (1,932 votes) and Mohd Hamnaim Mohamad of Bersatu (1,077 votes).

Kerk, who has held the seat for two terms, won with a majority of 5,604 votes.

Ayer Keroh, which has 38,252 registered voters, is one of four state constituencies under the Hang Tuah Jaya parliamentary constituency.