Putrajaya (federal constituency)
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 Putrajaya constituency | |
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| Federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| MP | |
| Constituency created | 2003 |
| First contested | 2004 |
| Last contested | 2022 |
| Demographics | |
| Population (2020)[1] | 109,202 |
| Electors (2022)[2] | 42,881 |
| Area (km²)[3] | 49 |
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2,228.6 |
Putrajaya is a federal constituency representing the Federal Territory of Putrajaya, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 2004.
The federal constituency was created from parts of the Sepang constituency in the 2003 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
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While this Malaysian parliamentary constituency is the 'heart' of predominantly Malay/Muslim voters, Putrajaya might be considered as the only constituency area in the both Klang Valley and West-Coast Peninsular Malaysia where the Chinese voters forms only less than 1% of the overall voters in the parliamentary area.
As of 2020, Putrajaya has a population of 109,202 people.[4]
- 18-20 (8.33%)
- 21-29 (21.0%)
- 30-39 (29.7%)
- 40-49 (21.9%)
- 50-59 (10.2%)
- 60-69 (7.43%)
- 70-79 (1.32%)
- 80-89 (0.13%)
- above 90 (0.00%)
- Male (49.4%)
- Female (50.6%)
According to the August 2022 Electoral Roll used for the 2022 Malaysian general election, the Putrajaya constituency has 42,881 registered voters, of whom 95.4% are Malay, 0.90% are Chinese, 2.60% are Indian, and 1.10% are from other ethnic groups. In the 2018 general election, the constituency had 27,306 registered voters. The 2022 general election saw an increase of 15,575 voters, a 57.04% increase. In terms of percentage of voters by ethnic group, the Malay population increased by 1.23%, the Chinese increased by 0.01%, the Indian population decreased by 0.58%, and the other ethnic groups decreased by 0.68%.
| Change of electorate in Putrajaya (by percentage) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Election | Electorate | Voters | Change | |||
| Malay | Chinese | Indian | Other | |||
| 2022 | 95.4 | 0.90 | 2.60 | 1.10 | 42,881 | +57.04% |
| 2018 | 94.17 | 0.89 | 3.18 | 1.78 | 27,306 | +72.92% |
| 2013 | 94 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 15,791 | +139% |
| 2008 | 95 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6,608 | +30.10% |
| 2004 | 95 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5,079 | － |
