Bukit Bintang (Selangor federal constituency)
 Selangor constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Bukit Bintang was a federal constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974 before abolished as part of Federal Territory.
The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
History
[edit]Representation history
[edit]| Members of Parliament for Bukit Bintang | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created from Kuala Lumpur Timor in the state of Selangor | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P072 | 1959-1963 | Cheah Theam Swee (谢添瑞) |
Alliance (MCA) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P072 | 1963-1964 | Cheah Theam Swee (谢添瑞) |
Alliance (MCA) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | Tan Toh Hong (陈道方) | ||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | P072 | 1971-1972 | Yeoh Teck Chye (杨德才) |
GERAKAN |
| 1972-1974 | PEKEMAS | |||
| Constituency abolished, split into Kuala Lumpur Bandar and Sungei Besi | ||||
State constituency
[edit]| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Bukit Bintang | Bukit Nanas | ||||||
| Kampong Bharu | |||||||
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GERAKAN | Yeoh Teck Chye | 18,488 | 66.92 |  66.92
| |
| Alliance | Tan Toh Hong | 9,137 | 33.08 |  9.43
| |
| Total valid votes | 27,625 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,410 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 29,035 | 57.35 | 8.35
| ||
| Registered electors | 50,631 | ||||
| Majority | 9,351 | 33.84 | 22.45
| ||
| GERAKAN gain from Alliance | Swing | ?
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Tan Toh Hong | 9,107 | 42.51 | 5.18
| |
| PAP | Wong Lin Ken | 6,667 | 31.12 | 31.12
| |
| Socialist Front | Ishak Muhammad | 5,000 | 23.34 | 4.61
| |
| PMIP | Abdul Aziz Ismail | 650 | 3.03 | ||
| Total valid votes | 21,424 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 676 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 22,100 | 65.70 | 0.38
| ||
| Registered electors | 33,636 | ||||
| Majority | 2,440 | 11.39 | 7.13
| ||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Cheah Theam Swee | 6,134 | 37.33 | |||
| Independent | Robert K. C. Koh | 5,434 | 33.07 | |||
| Socialist Front | Mohamed Nazar Nong | 4,593 | 27.95 | |||
| Independent | Heng Cheng Swee | 270 | 1.64 | |||
| Total valid votes | 16,431 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 79 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 16,510 | 66.08 | ||||
| Registered electors | 24,984 | |||||
| Majority | 700 | 4.26 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ Ahmad Fauzi Mustafa (2012-03-12). "Hanya Yang di-Pertuan Agong ada kuasa panggil Parlimen bersidang". Utusan Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-04-23.
- ^ "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-23.