Seberang Utara was a federal constituency in Penang, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
Penang constituency | |
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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 Seberang Utara | ||||
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Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
Constituency created from Wellesley North | ||||
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
1st | P038 | 1959-1963 | Ahmad Saaid (احمد ساعاد) | Alliance (UMNO) |
Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
1st | P038 | 1963-1964 | Ahmad Saaid (احمد ساعاد) | Alliance (UMNO) |
2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
3rd | P038 | 1971-1973 | Ahmad Saaid (احمد ساعاد) | Alliance (UMNO) |
1973-1974 | BN (UMNO) | |||
Constituency abolished, renamed to Kepala Batas |
State constituency
Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
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1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
Seberang Utara | Muda | ||||||
Kepala Batas | |||||||
Tasek Glugor |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | Ahmad Saaid | 13,111 | 54.98 | 12.73 | |
PMIP | Musa Mohamed Yatim | 10,737 | 45.02 | 27.10 | |
Total valid votes | 23,848 | 100.00 | |||
Total rejected ballots | 2,593 | ||||
Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
Turnout | 26,441 | 81.69 | 2.88 | ||
Registered electors | 32,369 | ||||
Majority | 2,374 | 9.96 | 39.83 | ||
Alliance hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | Ahmad Saaid | 15,440 | 67.71 | 6.04 | |
PMIP | Siti Fatimah @ Salmah Sheikh Hussain | 4,087 | 17.92 | 8.33 | |
Socialist Front | Omar Mohd. Yusoff | 3,277 | 14.37 | 14.32 | |
Total valid votes | 22,804 | 100.00 | |||
Total rejected ballots | 1,010 | ||||
Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
Turnout | 23,814 | 84.57 | 8.26 | ||
Registered electors | 28,160 | ||||
Majority | 11,353 | 49.79 | 2.29 | ||
Alliance hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alliance | Ahmad Saaid | 12,748 | 73.75 | |||
PMIP | Yusof Abdullah | 4,537 | 26.25 | |||
Total valid votes | 17,285 | 100.00 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 249 | |||||
Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
Turnout | 17,534 | 76.31 | ||||
Registered electors | 22,978 | |||||
Majority | 8,211 | 47.50 | ||||
This was a new constituency created. |
References
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