Matang (federal constituency)
 |
 Perak constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1974 |
| Constituency abolished | 1986 |
| First contested | 1974 |
| Last contested | 1982 |
Matang was a federal constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 1986.
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[edit]
It was abolished in 1986 when it was redistributed.
Representation history[edit]
| Members of Parliament for Matang | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created from Larut Selatan | ||||
| 4th | P050 | 1974-1978 | Hashim Ghazali (هشيم غزالي) |
BN (UMNO) |
| 5th | 1978-1982 | |||
| 6th | 1982-1986 | Mohamad Razlan Abdul Hamid (محمد رزلن عبدالحميد) | ||
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Bukit Gantang | ||||
State constituency[edit]
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Matang | Bukit Gantang | ||||||
| Changkat Jering | |||||||
Election results[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Mohamad Razlan Abdul Hamid | 15,687 | 61.56 |  0.38
| |
| DAP | Zainal Abidin Ahmad | 5,268 | 20.67 | 0.27
| |
| PAS | Abdullah Hassan | 4,529 | 17.77 |  0.65
| |
| Total valid votes | 25,484 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 750 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 26,234 | 74.61 | |||
| Registered electors | 35,162 | ||||
| Majority | 10,419 | 40.89 | 0.11
| ||
| BN hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Hashim Ghazali | 14,706 | 61.94 | 6.06
| |
| DAP | Jamaluddin Yeop Hamzah | 4,973 | 20.94 | 4.90
| |
| PAS | Mohd Dali Main | 4,065 | 17.12 | 17.12
| |
| Total valid votes | 23,744 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | 31,967 | ||||
| Majority | 9,733 | 41.00 | 1.16
| ||
| BN hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Hashim Ghazali | 12,543 | 68.00 | |||
| DAP | Fadzlan Yahya | 4,766 | 25.84 | |||
| PEKEMAS | Tan Kok Kong | 639 | 3.46 | |||
| Homeland Consciousness Union | Ng Hoe Soon | 498 | 2.70 | |||
| Total valid votes | 18,446 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | ||||||
| Registered electors | 26,611 | |||||
| Majority | 7,777 | 42.16 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||