Semantan (Federal Legislative Council constituency)
Constituency in Malaysia
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Semantan was a federal constituency in Pahang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Federal Legislative Council from 1955 to 1959.
 Pahang 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 was mandated to return a single member to the Federal Legislative Council under the first past the post voting system.[1][2]
History
It was abolished in 1959 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
| Members of Parliament for Semantan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | Vote Share |
| Constituency created | ||||
| 1st | 1955-1959 | Abdul Razak Hussein (عبد الرزاق حسين) |
Alliance (UMNO) | 14,094 87.58% |
| Constituency abolished, split into Bentong and Temerloh | ||||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Semantan | Bentong Barat | ||||||
| Bentong Timor | |||||||
| Temerloh Selatan | |||||||
| Temerloh Tengah | |||||||
| Temerloh Timor | |||||||
| Temerloh Utara | |||||||
Election result
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Abdul Razak Hussein | 14,094 | 87.58 | |||
| PMIP | Mohd Yassin Mohd Salleh | 1,999 | 12.42 | |||
| Total valid votes | 16,093 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 16,093 | 82.50 | ||||
| Registered electors | 19,507 | |||||
| Majority | 12,095 | 75.16 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
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