Trengganu Selatan (Federal Legislative Council constituency)
Federal constituency in Malaysia
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Trengganu Selatan was a federal constituency in Terengganu, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Federal Legislative Council from 1955 to 1959.
 Terengganu 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
State constituency
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954–1959* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Trengganu Selatan | Dungun | ||||||
| Kemaman Selatan | |||||||
| Marang | |||||||
| Paka-Kemaman Utara | |||||||
| Ulu Trengganu | |||||||
Election results
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Wan Yahya Wan Mohamed | 16,345 | 86.15 | |||
| NEGARA | Ibrahim Mat Noh | 2,628 | 13.85 | |||
| Total valid votes | 18,973 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 18,973 | 82.51 | ||||
| Registered electors | 22,995 | |||||
| Majority | 13,717 | 72.30 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
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