Muar Selatan (federal constituency)
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 Johor constituency |
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| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Muar Selatan was a federal constituency in Johor, 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 Muar Selatan | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Constituency created | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | 1959-1963 | Sulaiman Abdul Rahman | Alliance | |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | 1963 | Sulaiman Abdul Rahman | Alliance | |
| 1963-1964 | Awang Hassan | |||
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament dissolved[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | 1971-1973 | Awang Hassan | Alliance | |
| 1973-1974 | BN | |||
| Constituency abolished | ||||
Election results
| Malaysian general election, 1969 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Alliance | Awang Hassan | |||||||
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| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Majority | ||||||||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
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| Malaysian general election, 1964 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Alliance | Awang Hassan | |||||||
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| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Majority | ||||||||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
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| Malaysian general by-election, 28 December 1963 Upon the death of incumbent, Sulaiman Abdul Rahman |
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Alliance | Awang Hassan | 22,095 | 88.16 | |||||
| PMIP | Hashim Israkal | 2,966 | 11.84 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 25,061 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Majority | 19,129 | |||||||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
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| Malayan general election, 1959 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Alliance | Sulaiman Abdul Rahman | |||||||
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| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered electors | ||||||||
| Majority | ||||||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||||
