Muar Pantai
 Johor constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Muar Pantai was a federal constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
The federal constituency was created in the 1974 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
History
[edit]It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
[edit]| Members of Parliament for Muar Pantai | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency split from Muar Selatan | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P091 | 1959-1963 | Seah Teng Ngiab (余镇业) |
Alliance (MCA) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P091 | 1963-1964 | Seah Teng Ngiab (余镇业) |
Alliance (MCA) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | P091 | 1971-1973 | Seah Teng Ngiab (余镇业) |
Alliance (MCA) |
| 1973-1974 | BN (MCA) | |||
| Constituency abolished, merged into Muar | ||||
State constituency
[edit]| Parliamentary constituency | State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Muar Pantai | Bandar Maharani | ||||||
| Parit Bakar | |||||||
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Seah Teng Ngiab | 13,755 | 65.93 |  7.05
| |
| DAP | Khoo Chin Tow | 7,108 | 34.07 |  34.07
| |
| Total valid votes | 20,863 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 715 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 21,578 | 70.61 | 6.41
| ||
| Registered electors | 30,558 | ||||
| Majority | 6,647 | 31.86 | 14.10
| ||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Seah Teng Ngiab | 16,578 | 72.98 | 19.69
| |
| Socialist Front | Lee Boon Pin | 6,137 | 27.02 | 15.21
| |
| Total valid votes | 22,715 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 481 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 23,196 | 77.02 | 2.69
| ||
| Registered electors | 30,116 | ||||
| Majority | 10,441 | 45.96 | 14.77
| ||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Seah Teng Ngiab | 8,997 | 53.29 | |||
| National Party | Mohd Noor Hamid | 3,731 | 22.10 | |||
| PPP | Tan Kwee Wah | 2,162 | 12.81 | |||
| Socialist Front | Chua Ang Teck | 1,994 | 11.81 | |||
| Total valid votes | 16,884 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 126 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 17,010 | 74.33 | ||||
| Registered electors | 22,884 | |||||
| Majority | 5,266 | 31.19 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Ahmad Fauzi Mustafa (2012-03-12). "Hanya Yang di-Pertuan Agong ada kuasa panggil Parlimen bersidang". Utusan Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- ^ "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.