Larut Utara
Malaysian electoral constituency
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Larut Utara was a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
 Perak constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
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
It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
| Members of Parliament for Larut Utara | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party | Vote Share |
| Constituency created from Larut-Matang | |||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | |||||
| 1st | P042 | 1959-1963 | Tajudin Ali (تاجودين علي) | Alliance (UMNO) | 16,830 76.68% |
| Parliament of Malaysia | |||||
| 1st | P042 | 1963-1964 | Tajudin Ali (تاجودين علي) | Alliance (UMNO) | 16,830 76.68% |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | 14,778 72.19% | |||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | ||||
| 3rd | P042 | 1971-1973 | Tajudin Ali (تاجودين علي) | Alliance (UMNO) | 15,177 69.52% |
| 1973-1974 | BN (UMNO) | ||||
| Constituency abolished, split into Larut and Taiping | |||||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Larut Utara | Larut | ||||||
| Selama | |||||||
Historical boundaries
| State Constituency | Area |
|---|---|
| 1959 | |
| Larut |
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| Selama |
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Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Tajudin Ali | 15,177 | 69.52 |  2.67 | |
| PMIP | Raja Danif Raja Shaharuddin | 6,655 | 30.48 |  9.24 | |
| Total valid votes | 21,832 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,103 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 22,935 | 72.43 | 6.36 | ||
| Registered electors | 31,664 | ||||
| Majority | 8,522 | 39.01 | 11.91 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Tajudin Ali | 14,778 | 72.19 | 4.49 | |
| PMIP | Abdul Samad Noh | 4,348 | 21.24 | 2.08 | |
| UDP | Lim Eng Keat | 1,344 | 6.57 | 6.54 | |
| Total valid votes | 20,470 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 836 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 21,306 | 78.79 | 10.16 | ||
| Registered electors | 27,041 | ||||
| Majority | 10,430 | 50.95 | 2.41 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Tajudin Ali | 16,830 | 76.68 | |||
| PMIP | Ibrahim Alla Ditta | 5,117 | 23.32 | |||
| Total valid votes | 21,947 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 170 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 22,117 | 88.95 | ||||
| Registered electors | 24,864 | |||||
| Majority | 11,713 | 53.36 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||