Guar Sanji (state constituency)

Guar Sanji

Perlis constituency
State constituency
Legislature	Perlis State Legislative Assembly
MLA	Jafperi Othman BN
Constituency created	1984
First contested	1986
Last contested	2013

Guar Sanji is a state constituency in Perlis, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Perlis State Legislative Assembly since 1986.

The state constituency was created in the 1984 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Perlis State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.

History

2004–present: The constituency contains the polling districts of Guar Sanji, Kampong Sena, Behor Mentalon, Chemumar, Serdang, Changkat Jawi.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Guar Sanji
Assembly	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created
7th	1986-1990	Taib Ismail	BN
8th	1990-1995	Abdul Aziz Saad
9th	1995-1999	Arof Saad
10th	1999-2004	Ahmad Ali	PAS
11th	2004-2008	Jafperi Othman	BN
12th	2008-2013
13th	2013-present

Election results

Perlis state election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Jafperi Othman	4,235	56.14
	PAS	Zulmi Sabri	3,308	43.86
Total valid votes			7,543	100.00
Total rejected ballots			82
Unreturned ballots			14
Turnout			7,639	87.57
Registered electors			8,723
Majority			927
	BN hold		Swing
Source(s)

Perlis state election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Jafperi Othman	3,736	55.18
	PAS	Ahmad Adnan Fadzil	3,034	44.82
Total valid votes			6,770	100.00
Total rejected ballots			93
Unreturned ballots			16
Turnout			6,879	84.30
Registered electors			8,160
Majority			702
	BN hold		Swing

Perlis state election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Jafperi Othman	3,378	51.10
	PAS	Ahmad Ali	3,233	48.90
Total valid votes			6,611	100.00
Total rejected ballots			97
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			6,708	86.39
Registered electors			7,765
Majority			145
	BN gain from PAS		Swing		?

Perlis state election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PAS	Ahmad Ali	3,318	55.00
	BN	Azib Saad	2,715	45.00
Total valid votes			6,033	100.00
Total rejected ballots			123
Unreturned ballots			1
Turnout			6,157	84.32
Registered electors			7,302
Majority			603
	PAS gain from BN		Swing		?

Perlis state election, 1995
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Arof Saad	2,791	52.82
	PAS	Bahari Ali	2,493	47.18
Total valid votes			5,284	100.00
Total rejected ballots			91
Unreturned ballots			5
Turnout			5,380	77.64
Registered electors			6,929
Majority			298
	BN hold		Swing

Perlis state election, 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Abdul Aziz Saad	3,167	64.34
	PAS	Bahari Ali	1,755	35.66
Total valid votes			4,922	100.00
Total rejected ballots			184
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			5,106	76.67
Registered electors			6,660
Majority			1,412
	BN hold		Swing

Perlis state election, 1986
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Taib Ismail	2,697	64.28
	PAS	Mahamood Mohd Noor	1,499	35.72
Total valid votes			4,196	100.00
Total rejected ballots			177
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			4,373	73.48
Registered electors			5,951
Majority			1,198
This was a new constituency created.