Kelantan Selatan (Federal Legislative Council constituency)
Federal constituency in Malaysia
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Kelantan Selatan was a federal constituency in Kelantan, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Federal Legislative Council from 1955 to 1959.
 Kelantan 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
| Members of Parliament for Kelantan Selatan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | Vote Share |
| Constituency created | ||||
| 1st | 1955–1959 | Abdul Khalid Awang Osman (عبدالخالد اوڠ عثمان) |
Alliance (UMNO) | 21,746 66.87% |
| Constituency abolished, split into Ulu Kelantan and Tanah Merah | ||||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–1959* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Kelantan Selatan | Machang | ||||||
| Tanah Merah | |||||||
| Ulu Kelantan | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Abdul Khalid Awang Osman | 21,746 | 66.87 | |||
| NEGARA | Nik Ahmed Kamil | 7,175 | 22.06 | |||
| PMIP | Mohamed Noor | 3,600 | 11.07 | |||
| Total valid votes | 32,521 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 32,521 | 86.10 | ||||
| Registered electors | 37,771 | |||||
| Majority | 14,571 | 44.81 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
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