41. Are there limits on the amount a candidate can spend?

Malaysia

Malaysia

Answer
Yes
Source

s19, Election Offences Act 1954

19. (1) Subject to such exception as may be allowed in pursuance of this Act, no sum shall be paid and no expense shall be incurred by a candidate at an election or by his election agent, after the date of publication of the notice of the election in the Gazette, during or after an election, on account of or in respect of the conduct or management of such election, in excess of— (a) two hundred thousand ringgit in the case of an election to the Dewan Rakyat; (b) one hundred thousand ringgit in the case of an election to a Legislative Assembly;

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