Wan Zikri Afthar Ishak is a Malaysian politician 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 from November 2023 to November 2024 and Member of the Perlis State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Tambun Tulang since November 2022.

In the 2022 Perlis state election, the ruling Barisan Nasional (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 16 November 2023, the Perlis EXCO was reshuffled, Wan Zikri Afthar was appointed as the Perlis State EXCO Member in charge of Youth and Sports, Hawker and Small Traders, Entrepreneur Development, Small and Medium Industries, Development of New Growth Centre and Creative Economy to replace Fakhrul Anwar Ismail who was removed from office during the reshuffle by Menteri Besar Mohd Shukri.

[1] In the 2022 state election, Wan Zikri Afthar was nominated by PN to contest for the Tambun Tulang seat.

He won the seat and was elected into the Perlis State Legislative Assembly as the Tambun Tulang MLA after defeating defending MLA Ismail Kassim of BN, Muhammad Syahmi Suhaimi of Pakatan Harapan (PH) and Maton Din of the Homeland Fighters Party (PEJUANG) by the majority of 2,485 votes.