Segamat Selatan
Malaysian electoral constituency
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Segamat Selatan was a federal constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.
 Johor 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 Segamat Selatan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency split from Segamat | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P090 | 1959-1963 | Teoh Chze Chong (张纸宗) | Alliance (MCA) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P090 | 1963-1964 | Teoh Chze Chong (张纸宗) | Alliance (MCA) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | Lee San Choon (李三春) | ||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended[1][2] | |||
| 3rd | P090 | 1971-1973 | Lee San Choon (李三春) | Alliance (MCA) |
| 1973-1974 | BN (MCA) | |||
| Constituency abolished, split into Segamat, Labis, Kluang and Ayer Hitam | ||||
State constituency
| Parliamentary constituency | State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Segamat Selatan | Bekok | ||||||
| Labis | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Lee San Choon | 14,470 | 73.63 |  10.30 | |
| Independent | Abdul Rahman Abdul Rasool | 5,183 | 26.37 | 26.37 | |
| Total valid votes | 19,653 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,652 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 21,305 | 71.66 |  10.77 | ||
| Registered electors | 29,730 | ||||
| Majority | 9,287 | 47.26 | 11.57 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Lee San Choon | 11,355 | 63.33 | 1.64 | |
| Socialist Front | Chiu Siu Meng | 4,956 | 27.64 | 10.67 | |
| UDP | Tan Luan Hong | 1,619 | 9.03 | 9.03 | |
| Total valid votes | 17,930 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 763 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 18,693 | 82.43 | 0.16 | ||
| Registered electors | 22,678 | ||||
| Majority | 6,399 | 35.69 | 12.31 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Teoh Chze Chong | 7,828 | 61.69 | |||
| Socialist Front | Lim Chin Kean | 4,862 | 38.31 | |||
| Total valid votes | 12,690 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 151 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 12,841 | 82.59 | ||||
| Registered electors | 15,548 | |||||
| Majority | 2,966 | 23.38 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||