Kinta (federal constituency)
 |
 Perak constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1974 |
| Constituency abolished | 1986 |
| First contested | 1974 |
| Last contested | 1982 |
Kinta 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 Kinta | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created, renamed from Ulu Kinta | ||||
| 4th | P053 | 1974-1978 | Ngan Siong Hin (颜祥兴) |
DAP |
| 5th | 1978-1982 | Yang Choong Fu (杨忠富) |
BN (MCA) | |
| 6th | 1982-1986 | Lim Liang Seng (林良成) | ||
| Constituency abolished, split into Tambun and Gopeng | ||||
State constituency[edit]
| Parliamentary
constituency |
State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Kinta | Chemor | ||||||
| Gopeng | |||||||
Election results[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Lim Liang Seng | 30,229 | 59.75 |  10.90
| |
| DAP | Soong Chok Tak | 17,356 | 34.31 |  9.46
| |
| PAS | Mohamed Tarmizi Mahmood | 2,385 | 4.71 | 2.67
| |
| PEKEMAS | Shaharuddin Dahlan | 619 | 1.22 | 1.22
| |
| Total valid votes | 50,589 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,263 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 51,852 | 74.76 | |||
| Registered electors | 69,362 | ||||
| Majority | 12,873 | 25.44 | 20.36
| ||
| BN hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Yang Choong Fu @ Yeoh Teong Hoo | 21,221 | 48.85 | 4.67
| |
| DAP | Farn Seong Than | 19,014 | 43.77 | 2.09
| |
| PAS | Samsudin Harun | 3,207 | 7.38 | 7.38
| |
| Total valid votes | 43,442 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | 57,661 | ||||
| Majority | 2,207 | 5.08 | 3.40
| ||
| BN gain from DAP | Swing | ?
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAP | Ngan Siong Hin @ Ngan Siong Eng | 15,885 | 45.86 | |||
| BN | Wong Kwong Nam | 15,304 | 44.18 | |||
| Independent | Yong Su Hian | 2,028 | 5.85 | |||
| Independent | Samsudin Harun | 1,424 | 4.11 | |||
| Total valid votes | 34,641 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,156 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 35,797 | 77.30 | ||||
| Registered electors | 46,307 | |||||
| Majority | 581 | 1.68 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||