Sungai Benut

Sungai Benut

Johor constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1984
Constituency abolished	2004
First contested	1986
Last contested	1999

Sungai Benut was a federal constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1986 to 2004.

The federal constituency was created in the 1984 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 2004 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Sungai Benut
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Renggam and Pontian
7th	P126	1986-1990	Mohamed Tawfik Ismail (محمد تاوفيك اسماعيل)	BN (UMNO)
8th		1990-1995	Abdul Hamid Abdul Rahman (عبدالحميد عبدالرحمن)
9th	P137	1995-1999
10th		1999-2004
Constituency abolished, split into Simpang Renggam and Pontian

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1954–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Sungai Benut				Benut
				Simpang Renggam

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1999: Sungai Benut

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Abdul Hamid Abdul Rahman	30,578	75.57	4.09
	PAS	Ungku Mohd Noor Ungku Mahmood	9,886	24.43	4.09
Total valid votes			40,464	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,291
Unreturned ballots			89
Turnout			41,844	72.58	2.17
Registered electors
Majority			20,692	51.14	8.09
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1995: Sungai Benut

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Abdul Hamid Abdul Rahman	29,450	79.66	11.60
	S46	Hassan Md. Ali	7,519	20.34	11.60
Total valid votes			36,969	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,154
Unreturned ballots			301
Turnout			39,424	74.75	2.51
Registered electors
Majority			21,931	59.32	23.20
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1990: Sungai Benut

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Abdul Hamid Abdul Rahman	23,313	68.06	12.66
	S46	Mohamed Sadek Mambli	10,943	31.94	31.94
Total valid votes			34,256	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,014
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			36,270	72.24	1.60
Registered electors			50,209
Majority			12,370	36.12	25.32
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1986: Sungai Benut

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Mohamed Tawfik Ismail	25,482	80.72
	PAS	Abd Hamid Abd Rahim	6,088	19.28
Total valid votes			31,570	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,438
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			33,008	70.64
Registered electors			46,727
Majority			19,394	61.44
This was a new constituency created.

References

• "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-20.