Menglembu (federal constituency)
Appearance
Perak constituency | |
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Defunct federal constituency | |
Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
Constituency created | 1958 |
Constituency abolished | 1986 |
First contested | 1959 |
Last contested | 1982 |
Menglembu was a federal constituency in the 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 Menglembu | ||||
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Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
Constituency created | ||||
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
1st | 1959-1963 | S. P. Seenivasagam | PPP | |
Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
1st | 1963-1964 | S. P. Seenivasagam | PPP | |
2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
1969-1971 | Parliament dissolved[1][2] | |||
3rd | 1971-1973 | S. P. Seenivasagam | PPP | |
1973-1974 | BN | |||
4th | 1974-1978 | Fan Yew Teng | DAP | |
5th | 1978-1982 | Patto Perumal | ||
6th | 1982-1986 | Yew Foo Weng | BN | |
Constituency abolished |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
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[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | BN | Yew Foo Weng | 27,187 | 52.69 | |
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | DAP | Lau Dak Kee | 24,412 | 47.31 | |
Total valid votes | 51,599 | 100.00 | |||
Total rejected ballots | 1,824 | ||||
Unreturned ballots | |||||
Turnout | 53,423 | 73.88 | |||
Registered electors | 72,307 | ||||
Majority | 2,775 | ||||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] gain from [[|BN]] | Swing | DAP
|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
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[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | DAP | Patto Perumal | |||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | |||||
Total valid votes | 100.00 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | |||||
Unreturned ballots | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | 61,439 | ||||
Majority | 12,770 | ||||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] hold | Swing | DAP
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
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[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | DAP | Fan Yew Teng | |||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | BN | S. P. Seenivasagam | |||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | BEBAS | Koo Eng Kuang | |||
Total valid votes | 100.00 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | |||||
Unreturned ballots | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | 51,316 | ||||
Majority | |||||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] gain from [[|DAP]] | Swing | PPP
|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | PPP | S. P. Seenivasagam | 29,089 | 81.0 | |
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Alliance | Hew Chai Kee | 6,818 | 19.0 | |
Total valid votes | 35,907 | 100.00 | |||
Total rejected ballots | 1,391 | ||||
Unreturned ballots | |||||
Turnout | 37,298 | 71.85 | |||
Registered electors | 51,913 | ||||
Majority | 22,271 | ||||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] hold | Swing | PPP
|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
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[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | PPP | S. P. Seenivasagam | 20,367 | 58.08 | |
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Alliance | Lim Eng Chang | 11,246 | 32.07 | |
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Socialist Front | Yunos Mohd Isa | 3,457 | 9.86 | |
Total valid votes | 35,070 | 100.00 | |||
Total rejected ballots | 1,117 | ||||
Unreturned ballots | |||||
Turnout | 36,187 | 78.68 | |||
Registered electors | 45,994 | ||||
Majority | 9,121 | ||||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] hold | Swing | PPP
|
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | PPP | S. P. Seenivasagam | 14,338 | 65.43 | ||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Alliance | Wong Kok Weng | 6,292 | 28.71 | ||
[[|parameter 1 should be a party name.]] | Socialist Front | Idham Khatib | 1,283 | 5.85 | ||
Total valid votes | 21,913 | 100.00 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 131 | |||||
Unreturned ballots | ||||||
Turnout | 22,044 | 65.59 | ||||
Registered electors | 33,609 | |||||
Majority | 8,046 | |||||
This was a new constituency created. |
References
- ^ Ahmad Fauzi Mustafa (2012-03-12). "Hanya Yang di-Pertuan Agong ada kuasa panggil Parlimen bersidang". Utusan Online. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- ^ "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.