Rashid Din
Rashid bin Din was the Member of the Parliament for the Merbok from March 2008 to May 2013. He sat in Parliament as a member of the People's Justice Party in the opposition Pakatan Rakyat coalition.
Rashid won the seat of Merbok in the 2008 election. The seat, previously held comfortably by the Barisan Nasional coalition, swung to the PKR for Rashid to win it by 3,098 votes. Rashid was replaced as the PKR's candidate for the seat at the 2013 election, and the party lost the seat to the Barisan Nasional's Ismail Daut.
Honours
In January 2010, Rashid was conferred the honorific title of Datuk by Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah.- * Knight Companion of the Order of Loyalty to the Royal [House of Kedah] – Dato'
- * Companion of the Order of [the Crown of Kedah]
- * Knight Companion of the Order of the Crown of Pahang – '''Dato''''