Larut Selatan was a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
 Perak constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
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 Larut Selatan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created from Larut-Matang | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P043 | 1959-1963 | Lim Swee Aun (林瑞安) |
Alliance (MCA) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P043 | 1963-1964 | Lim Swee Aun (林瑞安) |
Alliance (MCA) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | P043 | 1971-1973 | Ng Hoe Hun (黄和汉) |
GERAKAN |
| 1973-1974 | BN (GERAKAN) | |||
| Constituency abolished, split into Matang and Taiping | ||||
State constituency edit
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Larut Selatan | Matang | ||||||
| Taiping | |||||||
Election results edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GERAKAN | Ng Hoe Hun | 15,641 | 49.85 |  49.85
| |
| Alliance | Lim Swee Aun | 10,774 | 34.34 |  23.88
| |
| PMIP | Md Tahir Abdul Rauf | 4,962 | 15.81 | 6.67
| |
| Total valid votes | 31,377 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,233 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 32,610 | 68.69 | 7.16
| ||
| Registered electors | 47,472 | ||||
| Majority | 4,867 | 15.51 | 30.72
| ||
| GERAKAN gain from Alliance Party (Malaysia) Party (Malaysia) | Swing | ?
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Lim Swee Aun | 18,906 | 63.22 | 9.11
| |
| UDP | Lim Eng Chuan | 5,080 | 16.99 | 16.99
| |
| Socialist Front | Othman Abdullah | 3,185 | 10.65 | 10.65
| |
| PMIP | Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid | 2,734 | 9.14 | 5.67
| |
| Total valid votes | 29,905 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,124 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 31,029 | 75.85 | 11.86
| ||
| Registered electors | 40,909 | ||||
| Majority | 13,826 | 46.23 | 23.20
| ||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Lim Swee Aun | 11,218 | 54.11 | |||
| PPP | C. H. Yin | 6,444 | 31.08 | |||
| PMIP | Md Yunus Md Hashim | 3,071 | 14.81 | |||
| Total valid votes | 20,733 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 148 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 20,881 | 63.99 | ||||
| Registered electors | 32,633 | |||||
| Majority | 4,774 | 23.03 | ||||
| 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.