Seberang Utara
 Penang constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Seberang Utara was a federal constituency in Penang, 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 Seberang Utara | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
[edit]| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Seberang Utara | Muda | ||||||
| Kepala Batas | |||||||
| Tasek Glugor | |||||||
Election results
[edit]| 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
[edit]- ^ Ahmad Fauzi Mustafa (2012-03-12). "Hanya Yang di-Pertuan Agong ada kuasa panggil Parlimen bersidang". Utusan Online. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
- ^ "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.