Chow Kon Yeow, who has been retained as Penang DAP chief for the seventh term, has denied claims that his "faction or clique" had won the state party polls conducted yesterday.

"Can you name any of the cliques? Factionalism is only the conjecture of the media,"he said after the new line-up was announced last night.

NONE"We hope the result will clear all the doubts about factionalism in the DAP. The only faction is a DAP faction.”

Questions about factionalism arose after delegates were given ‘slates’ listing who to vote for. The contestants were seen to be aligned to Lim Guan Eng or Chow , among other leaders.

During voting yesterday, 675 votes were cast for 46 delegates. The top 15 now make up the new committee, whose terms ends in 2016.

Five more members were appointed from among the contestants to make up a 20- member state committee and “for additional strength”.

Former national women’s head and current state executive councillor Chong Eng is not in the line-up, as she failed to make it into the top 15.

Chow refused to explain why Chong was not appointed or co-opted into the committee, and would not say if she had rejected the offer.

"The co-opted committee members are as announced," he was all he would say.

Asked if he intends to give up the post after seven terms, he said he will continue to serve “until the members say otherwise".