Dindings (Federal Legislative Council constituency)
Former constituency in Malaysia
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Dindings was a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Federal Legislative Council from 1955 to 1959.
 Perak constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1955 |
| Constituency abolished | 1959 |
| First contested | 1955 |
| Last contested | 1955 |
The federal constituency was created in the 1955 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Federal Legislative Council under the first past the post voting system.[1]
History
It was abolished in 1959 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–1959* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Dindings | Dindings | ||||||
| Taiping | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Meor Ariff Alwi | 10,511 | 78.81 | |||
| National Association of Perak | Mohd Yunus Mahmood | 1,629 | 12.21 | |||
| PMIP | Abd Wahab Mohd Noor | 1,197 | 8.98 | |||
| Total valid votes | 13,337 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 13,337 | 82.75 | ||||
| Registered electors | 16,117 | |||||
| Majority | 8,882 | 66.60 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
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