Ewon Benedick

Ewon Benedick
Minister of Entrepreneur and Co-operatives Development
Assumed office
3 December 2022
MonarchsAbdullah
(2022–2024)
Ibrahim Iskandar
(since 2024)
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
DeputySaraswathy Kandasami
(2022–2023)
Ramanan Ramakrishnan
(since 2023)
Preceded byNoh Omar
ConstituencyPenampang
State Minister of Rural Development of Sabah
In office
16 May 2018 – 29 September 2020
GovernorJuhar Mahiruddin
Chief MinisterShafie Apdal
AssistantRasinin Kautis
Dumi Pg. Masdal
Preceded byEllron Alfred Angin
Succeeded byJahid Jahim
ConstituencyKadamaian
3rd President of the
United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation
Assumed office
15 January 2023
DeputyDonald Peter Mojuntin
Preceded byWilfred Madius Tangau
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Penampang
Assumed office
19 November 2022
Preceded byDarell Leiking (WARISAN)
Majority14,410 (2022)
Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly
for Kadamaian
Assumed office
9 May 2018
Preceded byUkoh Malajad (Independent)
Majority3,459 (2020)
3,294 (2018)
Personal details
Born
Ewon Benedick

(1983-08-01) 1 August 1983 (age 40)
Kampung Penampang Proper, Donggongon, Penampang, Sabah, Malaysia
CitizenshipMalaysian
Political partyUnited Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
(−2018)
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
(since 2021)
SpouseConnie Parantis
EducationSM St. Michael, Penampang
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
OccupationPolitician

Ewon Benedick (born 1 August 1983) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Minister of Entrepreneur and Co-operatives Development in the Anwar Ibrahim Cabinet since December 2022, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Penampang since November 2022 and Member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kadamaian since May 2018. He served as State Minister of Rural Development of Sabah in the Sabah Heritage Party (WARISAN) administration under former Chief Minister Shafie Apdal from May 2018 to the collapse of the WARISAN state administration in September 2020. He is a member of the United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation (UPKO), a component party of the PH coalition. He has served as the 3rd President of UPKO since January 2023. He was also Vice President of UPKO before his promotion to the party presidency in January 2023. He is one of the two UPKO MPs and sole UPKO MLA. He was set to officially take over Wilfred Madius Tangau as the 3rd UPKO president after the UPKO party election in the party triennial delegates convention on 16 October 2022. However on 10 October 2022, the 14th Parliament was dissolved and the 2022 general election was to be held on 19 November 2022, the convention was delayed to 15 January 2023.

Political career

Ewon Benedick made his electoral debut in the 2018 Sabah state election and contested in the state constituency of Kadamaian and managed to regain the seat which was won by Parti Keadilan Rakyat in the 2013 Malaysian general election. As a result of United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation decision to quit Barisan Nasional in the aftermath of 2018 Malaysian general election. Ewon was appointed as State Minister of Rural Development of Sabah. Following the collapse of the Parti Warisan Sabah government in Sabah in 2020, a snap election was held, where he defended his seat despite United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation's poor showing in the state election with him being the only state assemblyman from United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation.

In the 2022 Malaysian general election, Ewon went up against 2-term incumbent Darell Leiking. who was also a former federal minister in the parliamentary seat of Penampang and managed to win the seat with a 14,000 plus majority. On 12 December 2023, Ewon Benedick was appointed as the new Minister of Entrepreneur and Co-operatives Development in the new cabinet. He is presently the youngest member of Anwar Ibrahim Cabinet.

On January 14 2023, Ewon took over the presidency of United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation.

In September 2023 after launching the a state native customary laws literacy seminar, Ewon said that he along with his party comrades in United Progressive Kinabalu Organisation and Pakatan Harapan will continue the fight to elevate Sabah’s native court to be on equal footing with the civil and syariah courts, He said the state has all these three court systems but the native court, which presides over matters involving customary rights and practices of the state’s Kadazandusun Murut Rungus (KDMR) community, was considered as the lesser compared to the other two.

Election results

Sabah State Legislative Assembly
Year Constituency Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
2018 N07 Kadamaian Ewon Benedick (UPKO) 6,861 47.80% Lukia Indan (PKR) 3,567 24.86% 14,712 3,294 72.10%
Rubbin Guribah (STAR) 3,034 21.14%
Mail Balinu (PCS) 764 5.32%
Satail Majungkat (PAS) 129 0.88%
2020 N11 Kadamaian Ewon Benedick (UPKO) 6,823 51.07% Demis Rumanti (PBS) 3,364 25.18% 13,360 3,459 74.35%
Duanis Mogirong (PBRS) 2,050 15.34%
Joshua Betting Giling (PCS) 799 5.98%
Ernest Leduning Lengik (LDP) 223 1.67%
Mohd Farhan Raiting (IND) 101 0.76%
Parliament of Malaysia
Year Constituency Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
2022 P174 Penampang, Sabah Ewon Benedick (UPKO) 29,066 57.30% Darell Leiking (WARISAN) 14,656 28.89% 50,730 14,410 65.70%
Kenny Chua Teck Ho (STAR) 6,719 13.24%
Richard Jimmy (IND) 289 0.57%

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