Hilir Perak (federal constituency)

Hilir Perak

Perak constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1958
Constituency abolished	1986
First contested	1959
Last contested	1982

Hilir Perak was a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1986.

The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.

History

It was abolished in 1986 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Hilir Perak
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Sungei Perak Hilir and Telok Anson
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya
1st	P054	1959-1963	Mohamed Abbas Ahmad (محمد عباس احمد)	Alliance (UMNO)
Parliament of Malaysia
1st	P054	1963-1964	Mohamed Abbas Ahmad (محمد عباس احمد)	Alliance (UMNO)
2nd		1964-1969	Othman Abdullah (عثمان عبدالله)
		1969-1971	Parliament was suspended
3rd	P054	1971-1973	Ahmad Damanhuri Abdul Wahab (احمد دامنهوري عبدالوهاب)	Alliance (UMNO)
		1973-1974		BN (UMNO)
4th	P061	1974-1978	Abu Bakar Arshad (ابو بكر ارشد)
5th		1978-1982	Kamaluddin Maamor (كمالو الدين معمور)
6th		1982-1986	Megat Junid Megat Ayub (مڬت جونيد مڬت ايوب)
Constituency abolished, renamed to Pasir Salak

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1955–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Hilir Perak		Bandar
			Kampong Gajah
		Sungei Manik

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Megat Junid Megat Ayub	16,582	73.24	9.17
	PAS	Ahmad Abdul Majid	6,058	26.76	4.14
Total valid votes			22,640	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,392
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			24,032	72.99	0.79
Registered electors			32,925
Majority			10,524	46,48	5.03
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1978

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Kamaluddin Maamor	13,643	64.07	8.57
	PAS	Abdul Kader Kahar	4,817	22.62	22.62
	DAP	Zainal Abidin Adnan	2,493	11.71	11.71
	PEKEMAS	Abdul Latif Nasain	342	1.61	1.61
Total valid votes			21,295	100.00
Total rejected ballots			719
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			22,014	73.78	2.68
Registered electors			29,838
Majority			8,826	41.45	3.83
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1974

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Abu Bakar Arshad	13,077	72.64	72.64
	PEKEMAS	Ahmad Boestamam	4,925	27.36	27.36
Total valid votes			18,002	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,317
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			19,319	71.10	2.53
Registered electors			26,524
Majority			8,152	45.28	25.78
	BN gain from Alliance		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Ahmad Damanhuri Abdul Wahab	7,302	59.75	5.38
	PMIP	Abdul Aziz Othman	4,919	40.25	8.48
Total valid votes			12,221	100.00
Total rejected ballots			815
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			13,036	73.63	6.20
Registered electors			17,705
Majority			2,383	19.50	13.86
	Alliance hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1964

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Othman Abdullah	7,883	65.13	8.13
	PMIP	Hassan Adli Arshad	3,845	31.77	3.30
	UDP	Ja'afar Sidik Maamor	375	3.10	3.10
Total valid votes			12,103	100.00
Total rejected ballots			514
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			12,617	79.83	9.04
Registered electors			15,805
Majority			4,038	33.36	27.36
	Alliance hold		Swing

Malayan general election, 1959

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Mohamed Abbas Ahmad	4,818	53.00
	PMIP	Abu Bakar Anjang	4,273	47.00
Total valid votes			9,091	100.00
Total rejected ballots			100
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			9,191	70.79
Registered electors			12,984
Majority			545	6.00
This was a new constituency created.