Menglembu (federal constituency)
Menglembu was a federal constituency in the Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1986.
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|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1986 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1982 |
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 was suspended[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | 1971-1973 | S. P. Seenivasagam | PPP | |
| 1973-1974 | BN (PPP) | |||
| 4th | 1974-1978 | Fan Yew Teng (范俊登) | DAP | |
| 5th | 1978-1982 | Patto Perumal | ||
| 6th | 1982-1986 | Yew Foo Weng (游富荣) | BN (MCA) | |
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Pasir Pinji | ||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Yew Foo Weng | 27,187 | 52.69 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| BN gain from DAP | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAP | Patto Perumal | 29,573 | 63.77 | ||
| BN | Lee Chan Fai @ Lee Soon Heng | 16,803 | 36.23 | ||
| Total valid votes | 46,376 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | 61,439 | ||||
| Majority | 12,770 | ||||
| DAP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAP | Fan Yew Teng | ||||
| BN | S. P. Seenivasagam | ||||
| Independent | Koo Eng Kuang | ||||
| Total valid votes | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | 51,316 | ||||
| Majority | 10,748 | ||||
| DAP gain from PPP | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP | S. P. Seenivasagam | 29,089 | 81.01 | ||
| Alliance | Hew Chai Kee | 6,818 | 18.99 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| PPP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP | S. P. Seenivasagam | 20,367 | 58.08 | ||
| Alliance | Lim Eng Chang | 11,246 | 32.07 | ||
| 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 | ||||
| PPP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPP | S. P. Seenivasagam | 14,338 | 65.43 | |||
| Alliance | Wong Kok Weng | 6,292 | 28.71 | |||
| 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. | ||||||
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References
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- "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.
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