Zainal Abidin Ahmad (10 October 1939 – 25 March 2010[1]) was a Malaysian politician.
Zainal Abidin was a member of the State Assembly of Selangor from 1990 for Dusun Tua from the UMNO party, replacing Mohamed Azmir Mat Nazir.
[2] From 1995 to 1999, he served as Deputy Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) and on the Selangor Executive Council.
[4] In the 2008 election, Zainal won the federal seat of Hulu Selangor, unseating the incumbent Barisan Nasional member by a narrow margin of 198 votes.
[5] Zainal Abidin died on 25 March 2010 from brain cancer, triggering a by-election in Hulu Selangor which was won by YB P. Kamalanathan of (MIC) – (BN).