Kedah Tengah (federal constituency)
Kedah Tengah was a federal constituency in Kedah, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
 Kedah 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
It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
| Members of Parliament for Kedah Tengah | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created | |||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | |||
| 1st | 1959-1963 | Mohamed Khir Johari | Alliance (UMNO) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | |||
| 1st | 1963-1964 | Mohamed Khir Johari | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | ||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | ||
| 3rd | 1971-1973 | Mohamed Khir Johari | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 1973-1974 | BN (UMNO) | ||
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Kuala Muda | |||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Kedah Tengah | Jerai | ||||||
| Kota | |||||||
| Sik-Gurun | |||||||
| Sik-Gurun-Kota | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Mohamed Khir Johari | 13,958 | 54.65 | ||
| PMIP | Ahmad Othman | 11,583 | 45.35 | ||
| Total valid votes | 25,541 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,136 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 26,677 | 75.57 | |||
| Registered electors | 35,302 | ||||
| Majority | 2,375 | ||||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Mohamed Khir Johari | 16,042 | 74.95 | ||
| PMIP | Hussain Che Dol | 5,362 | 25.05 | ||
| Total valid votes | 21,404 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 885 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 22,289 | 74.72 | |||
| Registered electors | 29,829 | ||||
| Majority | 10,680 | ||||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khir was elected to Parliament in the Kedah Tengah by-election, 1959. Kedah Tengah is the only remaining constituency where elections have not been completed in the Malayan general election, 1959. | ||||||
| Alliance | Mohamed Khir Johari | 11,271 | 66.53 | |||
| PMIP | Hussain Che Dol | 4,435 | 26.18 | |||
| Socialist Front | Mohamed Shariff Babul | 1,234 | 7.28 | |||
| Total valid votes | 16,940 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | ||||||
| Registered electors | 22,762 | |||||
| Majority | 6,836 | |||||
| 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. Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.
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