Limbang (state constituency)
Limbang was a state constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly from 1969 to 2006.
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|---|---|
| Defunct state constituency | |
| Legislature | Sarawak State Legislative Assembly |
| Constituency created | 1968 |
| Constituency abolished | 2006 |
| First contested | 1969 |
| Last contested | 2001 |
The state constituency was created in the 1968 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.
History
It was abolished in 2006 after it was redistributed.
Representation history
| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Limbang | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Constituency created | ||||
| 8th | 1970-1974 | James Wong Kim Min | SNAP | |
| 9th | 1974-1979 | |||
| 10th | 1979-1983 | BN | ||
| 11th | 1983-1987 | SNAP | ||
| 12th | 1987-1991 | BN | ||
| 13th | 1991-1996 | |||
| 14th | 1996-2001 | |||
| 15th | 2001-2006 | Richard Wong Shoon Fook | ||
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Bukit Kota | ||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Richard Wong Shoon Fook | 5,668 | 52.02 | ||
| Independent | Said Mohidin | 5,109 | 46.89 | ||
| KEADILAN | Amran @ Hamdan Maidin | 118 | 1.08 | ||
| Total valid votes | 10,895 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 86 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 1 | ||||
| Turnout | 10,982 | 64.97 | |||
| Registered electors | 16,904 | ||||
| Majority | 559 | ||||
| BN hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On the nomination day, James Wong Kim Min won uncontested. | ||||||
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | |||||
| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | ||||||
| Registered electors | 15,704 | |||||
| Majority | ||||||
| BN hold | Swing | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | 5,813 | 52.99 | ||
| PBDS | Edward Guatee Sundai | 2,819 | 25.70 | ||
| PERMAS | Munir Karim | 2,160 | 19.69 | ||
| DAP | Kong Sieng Kee | 179 | 1.63 | ||
| Total valid votes | 10,971 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 114 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 53 | ||||
| Turnout | 11,138 | 69.57 | |||
| Registered electors | 16,009 | ||||
| Majority | 2,994 | ||||
| BN hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | ||||
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| Total valid votes | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
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| BN gain from SNAP | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | ||||
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| Total valid votes | 100.00 | ||||
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| SNAP gain from BN | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | ||||
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| Total valid votes | 100.00 | ||||
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| BN gain from SNAP | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | 3,224 | 57.52 | ||
| BN | Mustapha Besa | 2,224 | 39.68 | ||
| Independent | Lim Cho Seng | 157 | 2.80 | ||
| Total valid votes | 5,605 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Majority | 1,000 | ||||
| SNAP hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | 2,935 | 63.69 | |||
| BUMIPUTERA | Bakar Abdullah | 1,068 | 23.18 | |||
| Independent | Pugi Yabai | 385 | 8.36 | |||
| Independent | Tahir Hassan | 220 | 4.77 | |||
| Total valid votes | 4,608 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 330 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 4,938 | 79.85 | ||||
| Registered electors | 6,184 | |||||
| Majority | 867 | |||||
| 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 2016-05-05.
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