Sungei Muda (Federal Legislative Council constituency)
Malaysian electoral constituency
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Sungei Muda was a federal constituency in Kedah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Federal Legislative Council from 1955 to 1959.
 Kedah 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 is mandated to return a single member to the Federal Legislative Council under the first past the post voting system.[1]
History
It was abolished in 1959 when it was redistributed.
Representation history
| Members of Parliament for Sungei Muda | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | Vote Share |
| Constituency created | ||||
| 1st | 1955–1959 | Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-haj (تونكو عبد الرحمن ڤوترا الحاج ابن سلطان عبد الحميد حليم شاه) |
Alliance (UMNO) | 22,226 94.76% |
| Constituency abolished, split into Baling and Sungei Patani | ||||
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–1959* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Sungei Muda | Baling | ||||||
| Sungei Patani | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Tunku Abdul Rahman | 22,226 | 94.72 | |||
| Independent | Syed Jan Al Jeffri | 1,239 | 5.28 | |||
| Total valid votes | 23,465 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 23,465 | 87.23 | ||||
| Registered electors | 26,900 | |||||
| Majority | 6,438 | 89.44 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
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