Seberang Tengah
 Penang constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Seberang Tengah was a federal constituency in Penang, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
The federal constituency was created from parts of the Wellesley North constituency in the 1958 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Its last election was in 1969. It disappeared in the 1974 election and was split into Bukit Mertajam and Permatang Pauh.
History
It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
| Members of Parliament for Seberang Tengah | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created from Wellesley North and Wellesley South | |||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | |||
| 1st | 1959-1963 | Ibrahim Abdul Rahman | Alliance (UMNO) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | |||
| 1st | 1963-1964 | Ibrahim Abdul Rahman | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | ||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | ||
| 3rd | 1971-1972 | Mustapha Hussain | Gerakan |
| 1972-1974 | PEKEMAS | ||
| Constituency abolished, split into Bukit Mertajam and Permatang Pauh | |||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Seberang Tengah | Alma | ||||||
| Bukit Mertajam | |||||||
| Permatang Pauh | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Gerakan | Mustapha Hussain | 16,808 | 58.31 | |
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Alliance | Ibrahim Abdul Rahman | 12,017 | 41.69 | |
| Total valid votes | 28,825 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 2,516 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 31,341 | 75.85 | |||
| Registered electors | 41,319 | ||||
| Majority | 4,791 | ||||
| MAS gain from Gerakan | Swing | Alliance
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Alliance | Ibrahim Abdul Rahman | 15,660 | 55.22 | |
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Socialist Front | Kam Yau Wah | 7,486 | 26.40 | |
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | UDP | Ooh Chooi Cheng | 5,215 | 18.39 | |
| Total valid votes | 28,361 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 943 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 29,304 | 81.90 | |||
| Registered electors | 35,780 | ||||
| Majority | 8,174 | ||||
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] hold | Swing | Alliance
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Alliance | Ibrahim Abdul Rahman | 9,187 | 45.53 | ||
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Socialist Front | Kang Eng Wah | 7,910 | 39.20 | ||
| [[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | PMIP | Abdul Hamid | 3,082 | 15.27 | ||
| Total valid votes | 20,179 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 244 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 20,423 | 76.28 | ||||
| Registered electors | 26,773 | |||||
| Majority | 1,277 | |||||
| This was a new constituency created out of Wellesley North which went to Alliance in the previous election. | ||||||
References
- ^ Ahmad Fauzi Mustafa (2012-03-12). "Hanya Yang di-Pertuan Agong ada kuasa panggil Parlimen bersidang". Utusan Online. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
- ^ "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-23.