Malacca Utara

Malacca Utara
Malacca constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1958
Constituency abolished	1974
First contested	1959
Last contested	1969

Malacca Utara was a federal constituency in Malacca, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.

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 1974 when it was redistributed.

Representation history[edit]

Members of Parliament for Malacca Utara
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Malacca Luar
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya
1st	P087	1959-1963	Abdul Ghani Ishak (عبدالغني اسحاق)	Alliance (UMNO)
Parliament of Malaysia
1st	P087	1963-1964	Abdul Ghani Ishak (عبدالغني اسحاق)	Alliance (UMNO)
2nd	P087	1964-1969	Abdul Ghani Ishak (عبدالغني اسحاق)	Alliance (UMNO)
		1969-1971	Parliament was suspended^[1]^[2]
3rd	P087	1971-1973	Abdul Ghafar Baba (عبدالغفار باب‎)	Alliance (UMNO)
3rd	P087	1973-1974	Abdul Ghafar Baba (عبدالغفار باب‎)	BN (UMNO)
Constituency abolished, renamed to Alor Gajah

State constituency[edit]

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
Parliamentary constituency	1955–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Malacca Utara		Alor Gajah
		Masjid Tanah
		Pulau Sebang
		Ramuan China
		Sungei Bahru

Election results[edit]

Malaysian general election, 1969: Malacca Utara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Abdul Ghafar Baba	15,692	63.86	6.98
	PMIP	Ali Md. Salleh	8,881	36.14	25.56
Total valid votes			24,573	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,515
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			26,088	78.49	5.43
Registered electors			33,237
Majority			6,811	27.72	41.55
	Alliance hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1964: Malacca Utara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Abdul Ghani Ishak	16,892	70.84	10.67
	Socialist Front	Sulaiman Mohamed Attas	4,429	18.57	2.97
	PMIP	Mohamed Yusof Sulong	2,523	10.58	13.65
Total valid votes			23,844	100.00
Total rejected ballots			865
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			24,709	83.92	2.83
Registered electors			29,443
Majority			12,463	69.27	33.33
	Alliance hold		Swing

Malayan general election, 1959: Malacca Utara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Abdul Ghani Ishak	11,078	60.17
	PMIP	Karim Dalib	4,461	24.23
	Socialist Front	Abdul Karim Bakar	2,872	15.60
Total valid votes			18,411	100.00
Total rejected ballots			183
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			18,594	81.09
Registered electors			22,930
Majority			6,617	35.94
This was a new constituency created.

References[edit]

^ Ahmad Fauzi Mustafa (2012-03-12). "Hanya Yang di-Pertuan Agong ada kuasa panggil Parlimen bersidang". Utusan Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
^ "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.

[1] Ahmad Fauzi Mustafa (2012-03-12). "Hanya Yang di-Pertuan Agong ada kuasa panggil Parlimen bersidang". Utusan Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-04. Retrieved 2016-05-20.

[2] "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.

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