Larut Selatan
Malaysian electoral constituency
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Defunct federal constituency | |
Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
Constituency created | 1958 |
Constituency abolished | 1974 |
First contested | 1959 |
Last contested | 1969 |
Larut Selatan was a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
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 Larut Selatan | ||||
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Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
Constituency created from Larut-Matang | ||||
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
1st | P043 | 1959-1963 | Lim Swee Aun (林瑞安) | Alliance (MCA) |
Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
1st | P043 | 1963-1964 | Lim Swee Aun (林瑞安) | Alliance (MCA) |
2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
3rd | P043 | 1971-1973 | Ng Hoe Hun (黄和汉) | GERAKAN |
1973-1974 | BN (GERAKAN) | |||
Constituency abolished, split into Matang and Taiping |
State constituency
Parliamentary constituency | State constituency | ||||||
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1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
Larut Selatan | Matang | ||||||
Taiping |
Election results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
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GERAKAN | Ng Hoe Hun | 15,641 | 49.85 | ![]() | |
Alliance | Lim Swee Aun | 10,774 | 34.34 | ![]() | |
PMIP | Md Tahir Abdul Rauf | 4,962 | 15.81 | ![]() | |
Total valid votes | 31,377 | 100.00 | |||
Total rejected ballots | 1,233 | ||||
Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
Turnout | 32,610 | 68.69 | ![]() | ||
Registered electors | 47,472 | ||||
Majority | 4,867 | 15.51 | ![]() | ||
GERAKAN gain from Alliance Party (Malaysia) Party (Malaysia) | Swing | ?
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
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Alliance | Lim Swee Aun | 18,906 | 63.22 | ![]() | |
UDP | Lim Eng Chuan | 5,080 | 16.99 | ![]() | |
Socialist Front | Othman Abdullah | 3,185 | 10.65 | ![]() | |
PMIP | Abdul Rahman Abdul Hamid | 2,734 | 9.14 | ![]() | |
Total valid votes | 29,905 | 100.00 | |||
Total rejected ballots | 1,124 | ||||
Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
Turnout | 31,029 | 75.85 | ![]() | ||
Registered electors | 40,909 | ||||
Majority | 13,826 | 46.23 | ![]() | ||
Alliance hold | Swing |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Alliance | Lim Swee Aun | 11,218 | 54.11 | |||
PPP | C. H. Yin | 6,444 | 31.08 | |||
PMIP | Md Yunus Md Hashim | 3,071 | 14.81 | |||
Total valid votes | 20,733 | 100.00 | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 148 | |||||
Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
Turnout | 20,881 | 63.99 | ||||
Registered electors | 32,633 | |||||
Majority | 4,774 | 23.03 | ||||
This was a new constituency created. |