 Perlis constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Perlis Selatan was a federal constituency in Perlis, 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.
It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.
| Members of Parliament for Perlis Selatan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created from Perlis | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P002 | 1959-1963 | Mokhtar Ismail (مختار اسماعيل) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P002 | 1963-1964 | Mokhtar Ismail (مختار اسماعيل) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | |||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended [1] [2] | |||
| 3rd | P002 | 1971-1973 | Mokhtar Ismail (مختار اسماعيل) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 1973-1974 | BN (UMNO) | |||
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Arau | ||||
| Parliamentary constituency | State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Perlis Selatan | Arau | ||||||
| Kayang | |||||||
| Kuala Perlis | |||||||
| Kurong Anai | |||||||
| Sanglang | |||||||
| Utan Aji | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Mokhtar Ismail | 11,432 | 52.78 |  2.59 | |
| PMIP | Abu Bakar Hamzah | 10,229 | 47.22 |  2.59 | |
| Total valid votes | 21,661 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 610 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 22,271 | 79.18 | 1.21 | ||
| Registered electors | 28,128 | ||||
| Majority | 1,203 | 5.56 | 12.68 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Mokhtar Ismail | 10,486 | 59.12 | 2.59 | |
| PMIP | Yusof Abdullah | 7,250 | 40.88 | 2.59 | |
| Total valid votes | 17,736 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 843 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | 18,579 | 80.39 | 4.44 | ||
| Registered electors | 23,112 | ||||
| Majority | 3,236 | 18.24 | 5.08 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Mokhtar Ismail | 8,015 | 56.53 | |||
| PMIP | Abdul Rahman Osman | 6,163 | 43.47 | |||
| Total valid votes | 14,178 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 97 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 14,275 | 75.95 | ||||
| Registered electors | 18,795 | |||||
| Majority | 1,852 | 13.06 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
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