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Results of the 1955 Malayan general election by federal constituency

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These are election results of the 1955 Malayan general election by federal constituency. These councillors represented their constituencies from 1955 to 1959 in the Federal Legislative Council.

Voter turnout is calculated using the formula = ((Total Candidate Votes + Rejected Votes)/Electorate)*100

Voter count for Straits Times have significant differences to elector count for Report on the First Election of Members to the Legislative Council of the Federation of Malaya

Perlis[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Strait Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Perlis Sheikh Ahmad Mohd Hashim
(All.)		 17,769 Mat Kassim
(Ind.)		 8,814 590 8,955 30,936 30,936 29,069 923 183 761 87.8%

Kedah[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Strait Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Alor Star Lee Thean Hin
(All.)		 27,897 Salim Rejab
(Negara)		 1,784 481 26,113 35,261 35,264 32,348 2,367 449 100 85.5%
Kedah Selatan Lim Teng Kwang
(All.)		 21,050 Mohamed Saleh Shafie
(PMIP)		 1,563 382 19,487 25,917 25,927 22,265 1,898 1,601 163 88.7%
Kedah Tengah Khir Johari
(All.)		 31,077 Puteh Napa
(Negara)		 1,431 542 29,646 37,176 37,219 34,967 985 329 938 88.9%
Kedah Utara Syed Ahmad Syed Mahmud Shahabudin
(All.)		 25,544 Abdullah Abbas
(Ind.)		 1,578 713 23,966 33,966 33,972 32,091 507 74 1,300 85.8%
Laidin Abdul Manan
(Negara)		 1,309
Kota Star Tunku Kassim Sultan Abdul Hamid
(All.)		 27,357 Mohamed Rejab Darus
(Negara)		 2,168 624 25,189 34,043 34,048 32,249 1,113 47 639 88.6%
Sungei Muda Tunku Abdul Rahman
(All.)		 22,226 Syed Jan Al-Jeffri
(Ind.)		 1,239 459 20,987 27,426 27,435 24,725 1,546 601 563 87.2%

Kelantan[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian and others voters Voter turnout %
Kelantan Selatan Abdul Khalid Awang Osman
(All.)		 21,746 Nik Ahmad Kamil Nik Mahmud
(Negara)		 7,175 1,136 14,571 33,657 39,032 37,436 1,279 317 86.1%
Mohamed Noor Yusoff
(PMIP)		 3,600
Kelantan Tengah Abdul Hamid Mahmud
(All.)		 28,422 Tengku Annuar Zainal
(Negara)		 2,970 1,003 25,452 34,270 43,277 41,708 1,362 207 79.4%
Nik Mohamed Abdul Rahman
(Ind.)		 1,154
Idris Mohammed
(Ind.)		 721
Kelantan Timor Nik Hassan Nik Yahya
(All.)		 30,954 Ahmad Dato' Nara di-Raja
(Negara)		 4,019 1,011 26,935 39,159 46,235 45,298 481 456 84.7%
Asri Muda
(PMIP)		 2,292
Mohamed Ibrahim
(Ind)		 883
Kelantan Utara Tengku Indra Petra Sultan Ibrahim
(All.)		 28,428 Nik Hussein Zainal
(Negara)		 6,295 1,337 22,133 36,060 42,554 39,412 1,028 2,114 84.8%
Pasir Mas Tengku Ahmad Tengku Abdul Ja'afar
(All.)		 20,963 Mokhtar Ahmad
(PMIP)		 7,507 979 13,456 29,449 34,803 33,269 946 588 84.7%

Trengganu[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian and others voters Voter turnout %
Trengganu Selatan Wan Yahya Wan Mohamed
(All.)		 16,345 Ibrahim Mat Noh
(Negara)		 2,628 690 13,717 23,831 23,846 23,534 295 17 82.5%
Trengganu Tengah Engku Muhsein Abdul Kadir
(All.)		 19,038 Suleiman Ali
(Negara)		 4,746 1,067 14,292 33,719 33,747 32,982 735 30 73.7%
Trengganu Utara Ibrahim Fikri Mohamed
(All.)		 22,041 Mohamed Salleh Ahmad
(Negara)		 2,866 1,259 19,175 32,482 35,355 35,066 268 21 80.6%

Penang-Province Wellesley[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
George Town Chee Swee Ee
(All.)		 7,253 Ooi Thiam Siew
(Lab.)		 2,650 163 4,603 19,935 20,016 3,410 13,912 2,452 242 52.7%
Cheah Phee Aik
(Ind.)		 429
Penang Island S. M. Zainal Abidin
(All.)		 14,865 Isa Sulaiman
(Ind.)		 2,925 346 11,940 27,281 27,336 14,663 10,604 1,626 443 66.5%
Wellesley North Hashim Awang
(All.)		 0 Returned unopposed 0 0 0 28,190 28,190 20,594 5,534 1,932 141 nil
Wellesley South Tay Hooi Soo
(All.)		 15,697 Zabidi Ali
(PMIP)		 3,523 240 12,174 24,320 23,238 15,576 5,027 2,585 50 80.0%

Perak[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Batang Padang Abdul Hamid Khan Sakhawat Ali Khan
(All.)		 9,170 Mohamed Shamsuddin Hamzah
(NAP)		 1,218 212 7,952 13,677 14,355 10,815 1,892 1,644 4 83.1%
Abdul Majid Ariffin
(PML)		 766
Dindings Meor Ariff Meor Alwi
(All.)		 10,511 Mohamed Yunus Mahmood
(NAP)		 1,629 326 8,882 16,512 16,464 11,903 3,627 932 2 82.8%
Abdul Wahab Mohamed Noor
(PMIP)		 1,197
Ipoh and Menglembu Leong Yew Koh
(All.)		 7,421 Loh Ah Kee
(NAP)		 983 1,069 6,438 12,948 11,610 3,766 6,521 1,261 62 82.8%
D. R. Seenivasagam
(PPP)		 808
W. E. Balasingam
(Ind.)		 439
Kinta Selatan Too Joon Hing
(All.)		 11,611 Mohamed Baki Daud
(NAP)		 1,689 184 9,922 16,216 16,295 10,164 4,578 1,549 4 87.3%
Idris Hakim
(Ind.)		 401
Zaharie Hassan
(PPP)		 273
Kinta Utara V. T. Sambanthan
(All.)		 7,900 Chik Mohamad Yusuf Sheikh Abdul Rahman
(NAP)		 1,832 260 6,068 12,304 12,474 8,052 2,571 1,851 nil 85.6%
K. R. R. Choudhary
(Lab.)		 357
Mohamed Ramli Abdullah
(PML)		 214
Krian Ahmad Tuan Hussain
(PMIP)		 8,685 Sulaiman Ahmad
(All.)		 8,235 1,071 450 27,239 30,339 28,203 595 1,541 nil 78.2%
Mohamed Jan Ngah Mohamed
(NAP)		 3,315
Larut and Matang Cheah Kay Chuan
(All.)		 15,407 Abu Bakar Said
(PML)		 4,453 833 10,954 30,454 31,072 23,362 4,199 3,472 39 81.7%
Wan Zarazillah Wan Ismail
(NAP)		 3,437
Puran Singh
(Lab)		 761
Sungei Perak Hilir Abdul Aziz Mat Jabar
(All.)		 17,483 Meor Ahmad Meor Yusof
(NAP)		 4,794 363 12,689 25,677 26,038 25,716 202 119 1 89.2%
Mohamad Adhan Katib
(Ind.)		 264
Sungei Perak Ulu Mohamed Ghazali Jawi
(All.)		 16,781 Mat Judin Ahmad
(Ind.)		 4,595 449 12,186 28,206 29,665 25,136 3,411 119 1 84.8%
Syed Mohamed Noordin Wafa
(NAP)		 2,099
Telok Anson Bahaman Samsudin
(All.)		 10,514 Hassan Adli Hasan
(PMIP)		 3,812 555 6,702 18,131 18,154 14,909 1,691 1,546 8 82.1%

Pahang[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Strait Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Pahang Timor Abdul Rahman Talib
(All.)		 16,763 Sheikh Kadir Sheikh Omar
(Ind.)		 1,334 439 15,429 22,291 22,425 21,192 996 227 10 83.2%
Semantan Abdul Razak Hussein
(All.)		 14,094 Mohamed Yassin Salleh
(PMIP)		 1,999 280 12,095 19,849 20,004 17,944 1,938 113 9 82.5%
Ulu Pahang Mohamed Sulong Mohd Ali
(All.)		 16,075 Abdul Hamid Ma'ajab
(Ind.)		 1,910 452 14,165 22,812 22,811 21,088 1,331 385 7 80.8%

Selangor[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Kuala Lumpur Barat Omar Ong Yoke Lin
(All.)		 4,667 Abdullah Ibrahim
(Negara)		 1,371 45 3,296 8,862 8,875 4,988 2,485 1,168 234 80.1%
Tan Tuan Boon
(Lab.)		 1,018
Kuala Lumpur Timor Cheah Ewe Keat
(All.)		 6,790 Mohamed Salleh Hakim
(Negara)		 2,431 163 4,359 13,184 13,209 8,697 2,944 1,202 366 78.8%
Abdul Wahab Abdul Majid
(Ind.)		 1,003
Kuala Selangor Raja Rastam Shahrome Raja Said Tauphy
(All.)		 11,857 Othman Abdullah
(PMIP)		 4,778 425 7,079 21,410 21,506 20,639 645 214 8 83.2%
Mohamed Ambia Sanusi
(Negara)		 756
Langat Abu Bakar Baginda
(All.)		 7,069 Mohamed Nazir Abdul Jalil
(Negara)		 2,147 255 4,922 10,834 10,840 9,117 598 912 213 87.4%
Selangor Barat Aziz Ishak
(All.)		 8,713 Mohamed Rashid Ahmad
(Negara)		 3,092 238 5,621 13,847 13,844 11,665 1,138 701 340 87.0%
Selangor Tengah Lee Eng Teh
(All.)		 5,652 Zulkifli Mohamed
(PMIP)		 1,711 172 3,941 9,465 9,468 8,311 842 305 10 88.5%
Atan Chik Lengkeng
(Negara)		 839
Ulu Selangor Halimahton Abdul Majid
(All.)		 5,430 Abdul Rahman Maulana
(Negara)		 1,160 131 4,270 7,835 7,837 6,013 905 726 193 85.8%

Negri Sembilan[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Negri Sembilan Utara Abdul Jalil Aminuddin
(All.)		 12,099 Baba Ludek
(Negara)		 3,590 435 8,509 26,502 26,664 24,890 1,460 295 19 89.3%
Negri Sembilan Selatan Mohd Idris Matsil
(All.)		 21,155 Ujang Menuang
(Negara)		 1,572 326 19,583 18,651 18,677 16,244 1,331 1,060 42 85.8%
Noordin Abdul Samad
(Ind.)		 506
Seremban Lim Kee Siong
(All.)		 8,402 B. H. Tan
(Negara)		 2,806 142 6,096 12,979 12,977 8,915 2,509 1,347 206 83.6%

Malacca[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Malacca Central Tan Siew Sin
(All.)		 17,104 Karim Bakar
(Ind.)		 3,194 429 13,910 20,727 27,033 17,782 6,752 1,831 669 81.3%
Malacca Luar Ghafar Baba
(All.)		 26,790 Ja'afar Tan
(Negara)		 2,821 547 23,969 34,204 37,675 29,937 3,649 4,040 49 88.2%

Johore[1]

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Constituency Winner Votes Opponent(s) Votes Rejected Votes Majority Electorate Eligible voters (as per Straits Times)[2] Malay voters Chinese voters Indian voters Others voters Voter turnout %
Batu Pahat S. Chelvasingam MacIntyre
(All.)		 18,968 Syed Abdul Kadir
(Negara)		 2,717 293 16,251 27,323 26,921 20,698 5,679 536 8 80.4%
Johore Bahru Sulaiman Abdul Rahman
(All.)		 8,745 Onn Jaafar
(Negara)		 2,802 128 5,943 15,042 15,042 12,358 1,889 746 49 77.6%
Johore Selatan L. H. Tan
(All.)		 21,581 Kassim Awang Chik
(Negara)		 2,318 473 19,263 29,090 29,090 25,097 3,833 160 nil 83.8%
Johore Tengah Teoh Chze Chong
(All.)		 7,100 Annuar Abdul Malek
(Negara)		 1,068 251 6,032 11,737 11,716 7,054 3,253 1,356 53 71.7%
Johore Timor Ismail Abdul Rahman
(All.)		 10,800 Ja'afar Ali
(Negara)		 350 326 10,450 14,155 14,155 11,896 1,662 591 6 82.9%
Abdullah Taib
(Ind.)		 253
Muar Selatan Tan Suan Kok
(All.)		 23,580 Mahmud Mohd Shah
(Negara)		 4,108 425 19,472 34,321 34,436 27,906 6,344 175 11 81.9%
Muar Utara Hassan Yunus
(All.)		 19,802 Mohamed Nor Abdul Hamid
(Negara)		 3,623 604 16,179 29,272 29,272 21,574 6,335 1,347 16 82.1%
Segamat Sardon Jubir
(All.)		 11,072 Razali Abdul Manap
(Negara)		 2,447 400 8,625 17,482 17,482 10,869 4,323 2,267 23 79.6%

References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "PEOPLE and PARTIES in THE POLLS". Straits Times.
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  • Barbara Watson Andaya dan Leonard Y. Andaya. A History of Malaysia, The MacMlllan Press Ltd. (1982). ISBN 0-333-27673-6.
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