 Johor constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct federal constituency | |
| Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
| Constituency created | 1958 |
| Constituency abolished | 1974 |
| First contested | 1959 |
| Last contested | 1969 |
Pontian 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.
It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.
| Members of Parliament for Pontian Selatan | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parliament | No | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency split from Johore Selatan | ||||
| Parliament of the Federation of Malaya | ||||
| 1st | P098 | 1959-1963 | Zainon Munshi Sulaiman (زينون مونشي سليمان) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| Parliament of Malaysia | ||||
| 1st | P098 | 1963-1964 | Zainon Munshi Sulaiman (زينون مونشي سليمان) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 2nd | 1964-1969 | Ali Ahmad (علي احمد） | ||
| 1969-1971 | Parliament was suspended [1] [2] | |||
| 3rd | P098 | 1971-1973 | Ali Ahmad (علي احمد) | Alliance (UMNO) |
| 1973-1974 | BN (UMNO) | |||
| Constituency abolished, merged into Pontian | ||||
| Parliamentary constituency | State constituency | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954–59* | 1959–1974 | 1974–1986 | 1986–1995 | 1995–2004 | 2004–2018 | 2018–present | |
| Pontian Selatan | Pontian Dalam | ||||||
| Pontian Kechil | |||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On the nomination day, Ali Ahmad won uncontested. | ||||||
| Alliance | Ali Ahmad | |||||
| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | ||||||
| Registered electors | 27,924 | |||||
| Majority | ||||||
| Alliance hold | Swing | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Ali Ahmad | 13,759 | 69.95 |  7.31 | |
| Socialist Front | Tan Tai Chee | 5,910 | 30.05 |  7.31 | |
| Total valid votes | 19,669 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 565 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | ||||
| Turnout | 20,234 | 82.36 | |||
| Registered electors | 24,569 | ||||
| Majority | 7,849 | 39.90 | 14.62 | ||
| Alliance hold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Zainon Munshi Sulaiman | 9,469 | 62.64 | |||
| Socialist Front | Lee Ah Leng | 5,648 | 37.36 | |||
| Total valid votes | 15,117 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 227 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | 0 | |||||
| Turnout | 15,344 | 81.82 | ||||
| Registered electors | 18,753 | |||||
| Majority | 3,821 | 25.28 | ||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||