Kota Star Utara 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 Kota Star Utara | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created from Kota Star | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P006 | 1959-1963 | Abdul Khalid Awang Osman (عبدالخالد اوڠ عثمان) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P006 | 1963-1964 | Abdul Khalid Awang Osman (عبدالخالد اوڠ عثمان) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | P006 | 1971-1973 | Mawardi Lebai Teh (ماورد ليباي تيه) | PMIP |
| 1973-1974 | BN (PMIP) | |||
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Kota Setar | ||||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Kota Star Utara | Langgar-Limbong | ||||||
| Pokok Sena | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PMIP | Mawardi Lebai Teh | 12,176 | 53.73 |  16.85 | |
| Alliance | Mohamed Zahir Ismail | 10,487 | 46.27 |  16.85 | |
| Total valid votes | 22,663 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 805 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 23,468 | 79.16 | 2.58 | ||
| Registered electors | 29,646 | ||||
| Majority | 1,689 | 7.46 | 18.78 | ||
| PMIP gain from Alliance | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Abdul Khalid Awang Osman | 11,847 | 63.12 | 4.37 | |
| PMIP | Abu Bakar Umar | 6,922 | 36.88 | 4.37 | |
| Total valid votes | 18,769 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 835 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 19,604 | 81.74 | 4.88 | ||
| Registered electors | 23,982 | ||||
| Majority | 4,925 | 26.24 | 8.74 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Abdul Khalid Awang Osman | 8,942 | 58.75 | |||
| PMIP | Abu Bakar Umar | 6,279 | 41.25 | |||
| Total valid votes | 15,221 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 191 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 15,412 | 76.86 | ||||
| Registered electors | 20,053 | |||||
| Majority | 2,663 | 17.50 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
References
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