Bukit Bintang (Selangor federal constituency)

For Kuala Lumpur, see Bukit Bintang (Kuala Lumpur federal constituency).

Bukit Bintang

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

Bukit Bintang was a federal constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974 before abolished as part of Federal Territory.

The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.

History

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Bukit Bintang
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Kuala Lumpur Timor in the state of Selangor
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya
1st	P072	1959-1963	Cheah Theam Swee (谢添瑞)	Alliance (MCA)
Parliament of Malaysia
1st	P072	1963-1964	Cheah Theam Swee (谢添瑞)	Alliance (MCA)
2nd		1964-1969	Tan Toh Hong (陈道方)
		1969-1971	Parliament was suspended [1] [2]
3rd	P072	1971-1972	Yeoh Teck Chye (杨德才)	GERAKAN
		1972-1974		PEKEMAS
Constituency abolished, split into Kuala Lumpur Bandar and Sungei Besi

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1955–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Bukit Bintang		Bukit Nanas
		Kampong Bharu

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	GERAKAN	Yeoh Teck Chye	18,488	66.92	66.92
	Alliance	Tan Toh Hong	9,137	33.08	9.43
Total valid votes			27,625	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,410
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			29,035	57.35	8.35
Registered electors			50,631
Majority			9,351	33.84	22.45
	GERAKAN gain from Alliance		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1964

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Tan Toh Hong	9,107	42.51	5.18
	PAP	Wong Lin Ken	6,667	31.12	31.12
	Socialist Front	Ishak Muhammad	5,000	23.34	4.61
	PMIP	Abdul Aziz Ismail	650	3.03
Total valid votes			21,424	100.00
Total rejected ballots			676
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			22,100	65.70	0.38
Registered electors			33,636
Majority			2,440	11.39	7.13
	Alliance hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1959

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Cheah Theam Swee	6,134	37.33
	Independent	Robert K. C. Koh	5,434	33.07
	Socialist Front	Mohamed Nazar Nong	4,593	27.95
	Independent	Heng Cheng Swee	270	1.64
Total valid votes			16,431	100.00
Total rejected ballots			79
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			16,510	66.08
Registered electors			24,984
Majority			700	4.26
This was a new constituency created.

References

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 2016-04-23.
2. "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-04-23.