Gelang Patah (federal constituency)

Gelang Patah

Johor constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1994
Constituency abolished	2018
First contested	1995
Last contested	2013

Gelang Patah was a federal constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1995 to 2018.

The federal constituency was created in the 1994 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 2018 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Gelang Patah
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Pulai
9th	P143	1995-1999	Teu Si @ Chang See Ten (张诗登)	BN (MCA)
10th		1999-2004
11th	P162	2004-2008	Tan Ah Eng (曾亚英)
12th		2008-2013
13th		2013-2015	Lim Kit Siang (林吉祥)	PR (DAP)
		2015–2018		PH (DAP)
Constituency abolished, renamed to Iskandar Puteri

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1954–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Gelang Patah						Nusa Jaya
					Skudai
					Tanjong Kupang

Election results

Malaysian general election, 2013

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Lim Kit Siang	54,284	57.87	22.37
	BN	A. Ghani Othman	39,522	42.13	15.45
Total valid votes			93,806	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,059
Unreturned ballots			203
Turnout			95,068	89.08	11.89
Registered electors			106,726
Majority			14,762	15.74	0.58
	DAP gain from BN		Swing		?
Source(s) "Federal Government Gazette - Notice of Contested Election, Parliament for the State of Johore [P.U. (B) 181/2013]" (PDF). Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 2016-05-12.[ permanent dead link ] "Federal Government Gazette - Results of Contested Election and Statements of the Poll after the Official Addition of Votes, Parliamentary Constituencies for the State of Johore [P.U. (B) 222/2013]" (PDF). Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia. 22 May 2013. Retrieved 2016-05-12.[ permanent dead link ]

Malaysian general election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Tan Ah Eng	33,630	57.58	23.87
	PKR	Zaliha Mustafa	24,779	42.42	23.87
Total valid votes			58,409	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,244
Unreturned ballots			75
Turnout			60,728	77.19	2.50
Registered electors			78,676
Majority			8,851	15.16	47.74
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Tan Ah Eng	41,001	81.45	6.95
	PKR	Song Sing Kwee	9,335	18.55	18.55
Total valid votes			50,336	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,903
Unreturned ballots			58
Turnout			52,297	74.69	0.49
Registered electors
Majority			31,666	62.90	13.90
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Teu Si @ Chang See Ten	40,752	74.50	1.43
	DAP	Norman Fernandez	13,947	25.50	25.50
Total valid votes			54,699	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,243
Unreturned ballots			118
Turnout			56,060	75.18	2.64
Registered electors
Majority			26,805	49.00	2.86
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1995

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Teu Si @ Chang See Ten	35,459	75.93
	Parti Rakyat Malaysia	A. Razak Ahmad	11,240	24.07
Total valid votes			46,699	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,486
Unreturned ballots			91
Turnout			49,276	77.82
Registered electors
Majority			24,219	51.86
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 2016-05-12.