Sungai Besi (federal constituency)

Sungai Besi

the Federal Territories of Malaysia constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1974
Constituency abolished	1995
First contested	1974
Last contested	1990

Sungai Besi was a federal constituency in the Federal Territories, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 1995.

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

It was abolished in 1995 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Sungai Besi
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Damansara and Langat
Sungei Besi
4th	P088	1974-1978	Farn Seong Than (范相登)	DAP
5th		1978-1982	Chan Kok Kit (陈国杰)
6th		1982-1986
Sungai Besi
7th	P102	1986-1990	Tan Kok Wai (陈国伟)	DAP
8th		1990-1995		GR (DAP)
Constituency abolished, split into Cheras and Bandar Tun Razak

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1990

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Tan Kok Wai	32,169	56.56	7.44
	BN	Tan Chai Ho	23,313	40.99	4.75
	Independent	Abdul Hamid Selamat	1,389	2.44	2.44
Total valid votes			56,871	100.00
Total rejected ballots			432
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			57,303	70.87	0.86
Registered electors			80,856
Majority			8,856	15.57	12.19
	DAP hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Tan Kok Wai	22,188	49.12	3.85
	BN	Kee Yong Wee	20,662	45.74	0.02
	PAS	Shariffuddin Budin	2,320	5.14	5.14
Total valid votes			45,170	100.00
Total rejected ballots			238
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			45,408	70.01	4.38
Registered electors			64,859
Majority			1,526	3.38	3.83
	DAP hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1982: Sungei Besi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Chan Kok Kit	40,434	52.97	22.64
	BN	Kee Yong Wee	34,929	45.76	45.76
	Independent	Megat Ahmad Sani Megat Hashim	969	1.27	1.27
Total valid votes			76,332	100.00
Total rejected ballots			637
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			76,969	74.39	5.87
Registered electors			103,469
Majority			5,505	7.21	55.98
	DAP hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1978: Sungei Besi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Chan Kok Kit	40,307	75.61	19.79
	PAS	Seman Baba	6,620	12.42	12.42
	Independent	Lim Heng Kiap	3,098	5.81	5.81
	Amanah	Ganga Nayar	1,701	3.19	3.19
	Independent	Woo Hon Kong	1,584	2.97	2.97
Total valid votes			53,310	100.00
Total rejected ballots			845
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			54,185	68.52	1.10
Registered electors			79,076
Majority			33,687	63.19	44.24
	DAP hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1974: Sungei Besi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DAP	Farn Seong Than	14,967	55.82
	BN	Shee Koon Ruay	9,886	36.87
	PEKEMAS	Ang Chee Meng	1,958	7.30
Total valid votes			26,811	100.00
Total rejected ballots			488
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			27,299	67.42
Registered electors			42,446
Majority			5,081	18.95
This was a new constituency created.

References

• "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-07.