Bandar Sibu
Malaysian electoral constituency
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Bandar Sibu was a federal constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1971 to 1978.
 Sarawak constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1968 |
| Constituency abolished | 1978 |
| First contested | 1969 |
| Last contested | 1974 |
The federal constituency was created in the 1968 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 1978 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
| Members of Parliament for Bandar Sibu | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party | Vote Share |
| Constituency created | |||||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | ||||
| 3rd | P134 | 1971-1973 | Khoo Peng Loong (邱炳农) | SUPP | 7,655 57.37% |
| 1973-1974 | BN (SUPP) | ||||
| 4th | P144 | 1974-1978 | Wee Ho Soon (黄和顺) |
6,861 54.49% | |
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Sibu | |||||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969–1978 | 1978–1990 | 1990–1999 | 1999–2008 | 2008–2016 | 2016−present | |
| Bandar Sibu | Sibu Luar | |||||
| Sibu Tengah | ||||||
Historical boundaries
| State Constituency | Area |
|---|---|
| 1968 | |
| Sibu Luar |
|
| Sibu Tengah |
|
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Wee Ho Soon | 6,861 | 54.49 |  54.49 | |
| SNAP | Joseph Tang Cheok Chung | 5,730 | 45.51 | 36.43 | |
| Total valid votes | 12,591 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 564 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 13,155 | 67.11 |  8.62 | ||
| Registered electors | 19,601 | ||||
| Majority | 1,131 | 8.98 | 21.71 | ||
| BN gain from SUPP | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUPP | Khoo Peng Loong | 7,655 | 57.37 | |||
| SCA | Ting Tieng Tong | 3,560 | 26.68 | |||
| SNAP | Joseph Tang Cheok Chung | 1,212 | 9.08 | |||
| Independent | Lim Ung Chiew | 519 | 3.89 | |||
| Independent | Peter Hwang | 398 | 2.98 | |||
| Total valid votes | 13,344 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 877 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 14,221 | 75.73 | ||||
| Registered electors | 18,779 | |||||
| Majority | 4,095 | 30.69 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||