Kinta (federal constituency)

Kinta

Perak constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1974
Constituency abolished	1986
First contested	1974
Last contested	1982

Kinta was a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 1986.

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

It was abolished in 1986 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Kinta
Parliament	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created
4th	1974-1978	Ngan Siong Hin	DAP
5th	1978-1982	Yang Choong Fu	BN
6th	1982-1986	Lim Liang Seng
Constituency abolished

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	[[|]]	BN	Lim Liang Seng	30,229	59.75
	[[|]]	DAP	Soong Chok Tak	17,356	34.31
	[[|]]	PAS	Mohamed Tarmizi Mahmood	2,385	4.71
	[[|]]	PEKEMAS	Shaharuddin Dahlan	619	1.22
Total valid votes			50,589	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,263
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			51,852	74.76
Registered electors			69,362
Majority			12,873
	[[|]] hold		Swing		BN

Malaysian general election, 1978

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	[[|]]	BN	Yang Choong Fu
	[[|]]
Total valid votes				100.00
Total rejected ballots
Unreturned ballots
Turnout
Registered electors			57,661
Majority			2,207
	[[|]] gain from [[|BN]]		Swing		DAP

Malaysian general election, 1974

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	[[|]]	DAP	Ngan Siong Hin	15,885	45.86
	[[|]]	BN	Wong Kwong Nam	15,304	44.18
	[[|]]	BEBAS	Yong Su Hian	2,028	5.85
	[[|]]	BEBAS	Samsudin Harun	1,424	4.11
Total valid votes			34,641	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,156
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			35,797	77.30
Registered electors			46,307
Majority			581
This was a new constituency created.