Miri-Subis
Former federal constituency in Malaysia
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Miri-Subis 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
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969–1978 | 1978–1990 | 1990–1999 | 1999–2008 | 2008–2016 | 2016−present | |
| Miri-Subis | Miri | |||||
| Subis | ||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Yang Siew Siang | 8,949 | 54.96 |  54.96 | |
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | 7,334 | 45.04 |  1.32 | |
| Total valid votes | 16,283 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 822 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 17,105 | 71.10 | 2.57 | ||
| Registered electors | 24,058 | ||||
| Majority | 1,615 | 9.92 | 4.65 | ||
| BN gain from SNAP | Swing | ? | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | 4,391 | 46.36 | |||
| SUPP | Ekoon Bantar | 3,892 | 41.09 | |||
| Independent | Guyang Nisau | 1,189 | 12.55 | |||
| Total valid votes | 9,472 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 3,684 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 13,156 | 73.67 | ||||
| Registered electors | 17,859 | |||||
| Majority | 499 | 5.27 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||