Datuk Ramlee Bohani

Summary

Datuk Ramlee Bohani is the UMNO assemblyman for N47 Kempas in the Johor State Legislative Assembly, having won the seat in the March 2022 snap election with a majority of 3,514 votes. Prior to his election, he served for over a decade as a Johor Bahru City Councillor for the Kempas area, and he holds the party position of Deputy Chief of UMNO's Pulai Division. Following the 2022 election he was appointed Political Secretary to Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi, and he has been fielded as BN-UMNO's candidate for Kempas in the 2026 Johor state election.

Biography

Datuk Ramlee Bohani is a Malaysian politician from Johor who serves as the Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly (ADUN) for N47 Kempas under the banner of Barisan Nasional (BN)/UMNO. He has longstanding ties to the Kempas constituency, having served as a councillor for the Kempas constituency on the Johor Bahru City Council from 2005 to 2018, and was reappointed in 2020 [1]. He first contested the Kempas DUN seat in the 2018 general election (PRU14) under BN-UMNO but was defeated by Osman Sapian of Bersatu, who won with a 9,178-vote majority [2]. Ramlee went on to serve as Deputy Chief (Timbalan Ketua) of UMNO's Pulai Division and had previously held the post of Head of UMNO Youth for the Pulai Division [3]. In the March 2022 Johor state election — a snap election triggered by the death of incumbent assemblyman Osman Sapian — Ramlee contested again under BN and won the Kempas seat with a majority of 3,514 votes in a seven-cornered contest [1]. Shortly after the election, on 27 March 2022, he was appointed as the Political Secretary to Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi, taking his oath of office at the Johor Menteri Besar's Office at Bangunan Dato' Jaafar Muhammad, Kota Iskandar [4]. He was awarded the Darjah Pangkuan Seri Melaka in 2015 [5]. As the incumbent assemblyman for Kempas, he was fielded again as BN-UMNO's candidate for the 2026 Johor state election (PRN ke-16), scheduled for 11 July 2026 [6].

Known for

Datuk Ramlee Bohani is known as UMNO's representative for the Kempas state seat in Johor Bahru, which he won in the 2022 Johor snap election. He is associated with grassroots UMNO organising in the Pulai Division and was appointed Political Secretary to Johor Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi following the 2022 election. His background as a long-serving Johor Bahru City Councillor for the Kempas area distinguishes his local-government experience from career politicians.

Political positions

No formal policy speeches or parliamentary position papers by Datuk Ramlee Bohani have been indexed across the allowlist sources reviewed. During the 2022 Johor state election campaign, Ramlee pledged to address recurring flooding in Kempas and to create business-funding opportunities for youth in the constituency [7]. As Political Secretary to the Johor Menteri Besar, his public role has been focused on supporting the BN state government's agenda and maintaining UMNO's grassroots base in the Pulai parliamentary constituency [8]. Broader ideological or policy positions are not sufficiently documented in allowlist sources to elaborate further at this time.

Before politics

1. 2005Appointed as a member of the Johor Bahru City Council representing the Kempas constituency. He would serve in this role until 2018.⛓
2. 2018His term as Johor Bahru City Councillor for Kempas ended. He had served in this role since 2005.⛓
3. 2020Reappointed as a Johor Bahru City Council member for the Kempas constituency.⛓

Political career

1. 2015Received the Darjah Pangkuan Seri Melaka state honour.⛓
2. May 2018Contested the N47 Kempas DUN seat in the 14th General Election (PRU14) under BN-UMNO. He was defeated by Osman Sapian (Bersatu/PH), who won with a majority of 9,178 votes. Ramlee received 11,959 votes.⛓
3. March 2022Won the N47 Kempas DUN seat in the 2022 Johor state election under BN-UMNO, defeating six other candidates with a majority of 3,514 votes and a total of 11,919 votes.⛓
4. 27 March 2022Appointed as Political Secretary to Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi. He took the oath of office at the Johor Menteri Besar's Office at Bangunan Dato' Jaafar Muhammad, Kota Iskandar.⛓
5. June 2026Named as BN-UMNO's candidate for N47 Kempas in the 2026 Johor state election (PRN ke-16), scheduled for 11 July 2026.⛓

Election history

• 2022N47 KempasWon⛓
• 2018N47 KempasLost27.6%⛓

Perspectives on key issues

• VerifiedFactsDatuk Ramlee Bohani won the N47 Kempas seat in the 2022 Johor state election with a majority of 3,514 votes and was subsequently appointed Political Secretary to Johor Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi on 27 March 2022.⛓
• GovernmentJohor Menteri Besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi publicly congratulated Ramlee on his appointment as Political Secretary and wished him success in his duties, as posted on Onn Hafiz's official Facebook account.⛓
• PublicA Kempas resident quoted by Malay Mail in the 2022 campaign noted that Ramlee 'was consistent when it came to helping Kempas residents even when the constituency fell under PH and PN', referring to his period as city councillor while the seat was held by opposition representatives.⛓
• ExpertThe Edge reported that during the 2023 Pulai by-election, Ramlee, alongside Johor MB Onn Hafiz and Pulai UMNO chief Nur Jazlan, 'consistently led PH candidates into Malay areas, striving to maintain Umno's grassroots support' in the Kempas state constituency within the Pulai federal seat.⛓