Jambongan

Jambongan

Sabah constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1984
Constituency abolished	1995
First contested	1986
Last contested	1990

Jambongan was a federal constituency in Sabah, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1986 to 1995.

The federal constituency was created in the 1984 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 Jambongan
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created, renamed from Labuk-Sugut [1]
7th	P139	1986-1990	Michael Metah Asang	BN (PBS)
8th		1990-1995		GR (PBS)
Constituency abolished, split into Beluran and Libaran

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency [2]	State constituency
	1967–1974	1974–1985	1985–1995	1995–2004	2004–2020	2020–present
Jambongan			Labuk
			Sugut
			Sungai Sibuga

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1990 : Jambongan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PBS	Metah Asang @ Michael Asang	8,817	59.51	59.51
	Independent	Ridi Alawangsa	5,393	36.40	36.40
	AKAR	Thamrin Zaini	376	2.54	2.54
	Independent	Nordin Khani	231	1.56	1.56
Total valid votes			14,817	100.00
Total rejected ballots			174
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			14,991	50.20	1.63
Registered electors			29,864
Majority			3,424	23.11	23.11
	PBS gain from BN		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1986 : Jambongan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Metah Asang @ Michael Asang	7,495	73.11
	PAS	Hamzah Abdullah	2,757	26.89
Total valid votes			10,252	100.00
Total rejected ballots			174
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			10,426	48.57
Registered electors			21,468
Majority			4,738	46.22
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 2016-05-20.

1. "HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS/1986-ELECTION-RESULTS/SABAH_1984_PARLIAMENT_REDELINEATION_IMPACT.csv at main · TindakMalaysia/HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
2. "HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS/1986-SABAH-STATE-ELECTIONS/1986_SABAH_DUN_RESULTS.csv at main · TindakMalaysia/HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

• https://github.com/TindakMalaysia/HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS/tree/main