Malacca Selatan (federal constituency)
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 Malacca constituency |
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| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Malacca Selatan was a federal constituency in Malacca, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
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 Malacca Selatan | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Constituency created | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | 1959-1963 | Hassan Mansor | Alliance | |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | 1963-1964 | Hassan Mansor | Alliance | |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | Abdul Karim Abu | ||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament dissolved[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | 1971-1973 | Ahmad Ithnin | Alliance | |
| 1973-1974 | BN | |||
| Constituency abolished | ||||
Election results
| Malaysian general by-election, 30 January 1971 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Ahmad was elected to Parliament in the Malacca Selatan by-election, 1971. Malacca Selatan is the only remaining constituency where elections have not been completed in the Malaysian general election, 1969. | ||||||||
| Alliance | Ahmad Ithnin | 14,766 | 60.95 | |||||
| PMIP | Mohammad Taha Kalu | 5,482 | 22.63 | |||||
| Independent | Gan Hong Hui | 2,655 | 10.96 | |||||
| PSRM | Omar Abdullah | 1,325 | 5.47 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 24,228 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 471 | |||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 24,699 | 68.17 | ||||||
| Registered electors | 36,232 | |||||||
| Majority | 9,284 | |||||||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
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| Malaysian general election, 1964 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Alliance | Abdul Karim Abu | |||||||
| Socialist Front | Jaafar Tan | 7,150 | ||||||
| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||||
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| Malayan general election, 1959 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Alliance | Hassan Mansor | |||||||
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| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||||
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| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||||
