| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Tuan |
| Megat Hashirat Hassan | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLA |
| Birth Name: | Megat Hashirat bin Hassan |
| Office: | Member of the Perlis State Executive Council |
| Term Start: | 25 November 2022 |
| Term End: | 25 November 2024 |
| 1Blankname: | Menteri Besar |
| 1Namedata: | Mohd Shukri Ramli |
| Predecessor: | Rozieana Ahmad Teh Chai Aan Siti Berenee Yahaya |
| Constituency: | Pauh |
| Constituency Am1: | Pauh |
| Term Start1: | 19 November 2022 |
| Assembly1: | Perlis State Legislative |
| Predecessor1: | Rozieana Ahmad (BN–UMNO) |
| Majority1: | 2,229 (2022) |
| Office2: | Faction represented in Perlis State Legislative Assembly |
| Subterm2: | 2022– |
| Suboffice2: | Perikatan Nasional |
| Citizenship: | Malaysian |
| Party: | Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) |
| Otherparty: | Perikatan Nasional (PN) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Profession: | Teacher |
| Education: | Pulau Nyior National Secondary School Alor Setar Technical Secondary School |
| Alma Mater: | Cheras Teaching Technical College University of Technology Malaysia Northern University of Malaysia |
Tuan Megat Hashirat bin Hassan is a Malaysian politician and teacher who has served as Member of the Perlis State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri Ramli as well as Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Pauh since November 2022. He is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the coalition. He is the Acting Division Chief and Division Deputy Chief of BERSATU of Arau, State Information Chief of BERSATU of Perlis and Deputy Information Chief of PN of Arau. He is also presently one of the three BERSATU Perlis EXCO Members along with Izizam Ibrahim and Wan Zikri Afthar Ishak.[1]
In the 2022 Perlis state election, the ruling BN suffered from huge defeat and wipeout in the assembly as none of its candidates won a state seat in the elections after losing all the 10 seats it previously held to PN. The elections ended 63-year rule of BN in the state, saw the first ever transition of power in the history of the state and replaced BN with PN as the ruling coalition and dominant political force in the state as PN won 14 out of 15 state seats and therefore two-thirds supermajority of the assembly. Therefore, State Chairman of PN of Perlis, State Commissioner of PAS of Perlis and Sanglang MLA Mohd Shukri replaced Azlan Man as the new and 10th Menteri Besar of Perlis and formed a new PN state administration on 22 November 2022. On 25 November 2022, Megat Hashirat was appointed as the Perlis State EXCO Member in charge of Science, Technology, Innovation, Information Technology, Communication, Environment, Biotechnology, Green Technology, Social Unity and Health.[2]
In the 2022 state election, Megat Hashirat made his electoral debut after being nominated by PN to contest for the Pauh state seat. He won the seat and was elected into the Perlis State Legislative Assembly as the Pauh MLA after defeating Syed Atif Syed Abu Bakar of BN, Azhar Ameir of PH and Mohd Khalid Samad of the Heritage Party (WARISAN) by the majority of 2,229 votes.[3]
| Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | N11 Pauh | Megat Hashirat Hassan (BERSATU) | 4,924 | 44.18% | Syed Atif Syed Abu Bakar (UMNO) | 2,695 | 24.18% | 11,145 | 2,229 | 76.60% | |||
| Azhar Ameir (PKR) | 2,369 | 21.26% | |||||||||||
| Mohd Khalid Samad (WARISAN) | 1,157 | 10.38% |