Repah

Repah

Negeri Sembilan constituency
State constituency
Legislature	Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly
MLA	Veerapan Superamaniam PH
Constituency created	1984
First contested	1986
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Electors (2023)	27,284

Repah is a state constituency in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly. ^[1]

The state constituency was first contested in 1986 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

Demographics

Ethnic breakdown of Repah's electorate as of 2018 ^[2]

1. Chinese (41.4%)
2. Malay (39.5%)
3. Indian (17.6%)
4. Other ethnicities (1.52%)

History

Polling Districts

According to the gazette issued on 24 March 2018, the Repah constituency has a total of 8 polling districts. ^[3]

State constituency	Polling districts	Code	Location
Repah (N36)	Repah	133/36/01	SMA Repah
	Kampong Bahru Tampin	133/36/02	SJK (C) Kg Baru Tampin
	Pekan Tampin	133/36/03	SJK (T) Tampin
	Kampong Batu Belang	133/36/04	SMK Taman Indah
	Keru	133/36/05	SK Keru
	Tebong	136/36/06	SK Tunku Syed Syaaban
	Kampong Asahan	136/36/07	Maahad Ahmadi Gemencheh
	Taman Indah	133/36/08	SK Tengku Zainun

Representation History

Member of the Legislative for Repah
Assembly	Years	Name	Party
Constituency created from Gemencheh
7th	1986-1990	Lay Chun Tai @ Loy Chee Tai	BN (MCA)
8th	1990-1995
9th	1995-1997
	1997-1999	Gan Chin Yap
10th	1999-2004
11th	2004-2008
12th	2008-2013	Veerapan Superamaniam	PR (DAP)
13th	2013-2018
14th	2018-2023		PH (DAP)
15th	2023–present

Election results

Negeri Sembilan state election, 2023 : Repah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PH	Veerapan Superamaniam	11,507	67.43	8.83
	PN	Yong Li Yi	5,557	32.57	32.57
Total valid votes			17,064	100.00
Total rejected ballots			193
Unreturned ballots			20
Turnout			17,277	63.32	20.67
Registered electors			27,284
Majority			5,950	34.86	5.74
	PH hold		Swing

Negeri Sembilan state election, 2018 : Repah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PH	Veerapan Superamaniam	9,568	58.57	58.57
	BN	Koh Kim Swee	4,810	29.45	10.15
	PAS	Abdul Razakek Abdul Rahim	1,957	11.98	11.98
Total valid votes			16,335	100.00
Total rejected ballots			189
Unreturned ballots			56
Turnout			16,580	83.98	1.68
Registered electors			19,742
Majority			4,758	29.12	16.99
	PH hold		Swing

Negeri Sembilan state election, 2013 : Repah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Veerapan Superamaniam	8,293	51.73	0.70
	BN	Yap Seong Fook	6,349	39.60	7.97
	Independent	Fadzil A. Bakar	1,390	8.67	8.67
Total valid votes			16,032	100.00
Total rejected ballots			291
Unreturned ballots			44
Turnout			16,367	85.66	10.80
Registered electors			19,107
Majority			1,944	12.13	7.27
	DAP hold		Swing

Negeri Sembilan state election, 2008 : Repah

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Veerapan Superamaniam	5,977	52.43
	BN	Yap Seong Fook	5,424	47.57
Total valid votes			11,401	100.00
Total rejected ballots			441
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			11,842	74.86
Registered electors			15,819
Majority			553	4.86
	DAP gain from BN		Swing		?

References

• "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia . Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-04-27.

1. "14th General Election Malaysia (GE14 / PRU14) - Negri Sembilan".
2. "14th General Election Malaysia (GE14 / PRU14) - Results Overview". election.thestar.com.my. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
3. "Federal Government Gazette: Notice of Polling Districts and Polling Centres for the Federal and State Constituencies of the States of Malaya [P.U. (B) 157/2018]" (PDF). Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia. 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2019-01-03.^{[ permanent dead link ]}