Jitra-Padang Terap
 Kedah constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Jitra-Padang Terap was a federal constituency in Kedah, 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
[edit]It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
[edit]| Members of Parliament for Jitra-Padang Terap | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created from Kedah Utara | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P003 | 1959-1963 | Fatimah Hashim (فاطمة هاشم) |
Alliance (UMNO) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P003 | 1963-1964 | Fatimah Hashim (فاطمة هاشم) |
Alliance (UMNO) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | P003 | 1971-1973 | Fatimah Hashim (فاطمة هاشم) |
Alliance (UMNO) |
| 1973-1974 | BN (UMNO) | |||
| Constituency abolished, split into Jerlun-Langkawi and Padang Terap | ||||
State constituency
[edit]| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Jitra-Padang Terap | Jitra | ||||||
| Padang Terap | |||||||
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Fatimah Hashim | 15,145 | 56.64 |  15.53
| |
| PMIP | Siti Fatimah @ Salmah Sheikh Hussain | 11,595 | 43.36 |  15.53
| |
| Total valid votes | 26,740 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,186 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 27,927 | 78.23 | 0.09
| ||
| Registered electors | 35,697 | ||||
| Majority | 3,550 | 13.28 | 31.06
| ||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Fatimah Hashim | 15,835 | 72.17 | 6.95
| |
| PMIP | Isa Mohamad | 6,105 | 27.83 | 6.95
| |
| Total valid votes | 21,940 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,077 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 23,017 | 78.12 | 2.60
| ||
| Registered electors | 29,464 | ||||
| Majority | 9,730 | 44.34 | 13.90
| ||
| Alliance hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Fatimah Hashim | 10,981 | 65.22 | |||
| PMIP | Husin Salleh | 5,856 | 34.78 | |||
| Total valid votes | 16,837 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 212 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 17,049 | 75.52 | ||||
| Registered electors | 22,576 | |||||
| Majority | 5,125 | 30.44 | ||||
| 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 2016-05-20.
- ^ "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.