Kluang Selatan

Kluang Selatan

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

Kluang Selatan was a federal constituency in Johor, 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

It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Kluang Selatan
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency split from Johore Tengah
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya
1st	P099	1959-1963	Chan Chong Wen (曾崇文)	Alliance (MCA)
Parliament of Malaysia
1st	P099	1963-1964	Chan Chong Wen (曾崇文)	Alliance (MCA)
2nd		1964-1969
		1969-1971	Parliament was suspended [1] [2]
3rd	P099	1971-1973	Chu Chee Peng (朱子平)	Alliance (MCA)
		1973-1974		BN (MCA)
Constituency abolished, split into Renggam and Sri Gading

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1954–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Kluang Selatan		Renggam
		Senai-Kulai

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1969 : Kluang Selatan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Chu Chee Peng	12,754	64.39	0.57
	DAP	Lee Kuo Ming @ Lee Kok Bin	7,053	35.61	35.61
Total valid votes			19,807	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,418
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			21,225	68.09	13.79
Registered electors			31,171
Majority			5,701	28.78	1.14
	Alliance hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1964 : Kluang Selatan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Chan Chong Wen	11,926	64.96	0.89
	Socialist Front	Hon Kin Siong	6,434	35.04	0.89
Total valid votes			18,360	100.00
Total rejected ballots			601
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			18,961	81.88	2.24
Registered electors			23,158
Majority			5,492	29.92	1.78
	Alliance hold		Swing

Malayan general election, 1959 : Kluang Selatan

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Chan Chong Wen	8,754	65.85
	Socialist Front	Tan Kai Hee	4,540	34.15
Total valid votes			13,294	100.00
Total rejected ballots			150
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			13,444	79.64
Registered electors			16,880
Majority			4,214	31.70
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 2016-05-20.
2. "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.