Wan Badariah Wan Saad (born 21 August 1976) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as a 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 Mata Ayer since November 2022.
[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.
On 25 November 2022, Wan Badariah was appointed as the Perlis State EXCO Member in charge of Women, Family, Community Development, Tourism, Welfare, Disaster Relief, Culture, Arts and Heritage.
She won the seat and was elected into the Perlis State Legislative Assembly as the Mata Ayer MLA after defeating EXCO Member and defending MLA Siti Berenee Yahaya of BN and Amran Kamarudin of PH by the majority of 2,021 votes.
[3] Wan Badariah has been a syarie lawyer since 2014, Chairperson of the Law and Human Rights Council (LUHAM) of Perlis since 2021 and a member of the Muslimat Legal Team (MUSLET) of Perlis since 2019.