Setapak (Selangor federal constituency)

For Kuala Lumpur, see Setapak (Kuala Lumpur federal constituency).

Setapak

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

Setapak was a federal constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.

The federal constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.

History

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Setapak
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Kuala Lumpur Timor in the state of Selangor
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya
1st	P070	1959-1963	Ahmad Boestamam (احمد بوايستمم)	SF (Ra'ayat)
Parliament of Malaysia
1st	P070	1963-1964	Ahmad Boestamam (احمد بوايستمم)	SF (Ra'ayat)
2nd		1964-1969	Chan Seong Yoon (詹祥云)	Alliance (MCA)
		1969-1971	Parliament was suspended [1] [2]
3rd	P070	1971-1972	Walter Loh Poh Khan (罗保根)	DAP
		1972-1973		Alliance (MCA) [3]
		1973-1974		BN (MCA)
Constituency abolished, split into Setapak and Selayang

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1955–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Setapak		Ampang
		Sentul

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Walter Loh Poh Khan	17,137	55.27	55.27
	Alliance	Teh Hock Heng	13,871	44.73	5.66
Total valid votes			31,008	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,165
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			33,173	57.23	10.99
Registered electors			57,969
Majority			3,266	10.54	7.51
	DAP gain from Alliance Party (Malaysia) Party (Malaysia)		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1964

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Chan Seong Yoon	12,292	50.39	19.51
	Socialist Front	Tajuddin Abdul Kahar	7,888	32.34	12.01
	PAP	K. V. Thaver	4,214	17.27	17.27
Total valid votes			24,394	100.00
Total rejected ballots			871
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			25,265	68.22	1.72
Registered electors			37,034
Majority			4,404	18.05	4.58
	Alliance gain from Socialist Front		Swing		?

Malayan general election, 1959

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Socialist Front	Ahmad Boestamam	6,901	44.35
	Alliance	Aishah Ghani	4,805	30.88
	Independent	Yap Kim Swee	3,853	24.76
Total valid votes			15,559	100.00
Total rejected ballots			102
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			15,661	69.64
Registered electors			22,490
Majority			2,096	13.47
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. Retrieved 2016-05-20.
2. "www.parlimen.gov.my" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-20.
3. "Two DAP MPs Join MCA". The Straits Times. 18 May 1972. Retrieved 2016-05-20.