Tanjong Aru (federal constituency)

Tanjong Aru

Sabah constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1984
Constituency abolished	2004
First contested	1986
Last contested	1999

Tanjong Aru was a federal constituency in Sabah, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1986 to 2004.

The federal constituency was created in the 1984 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 2004 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Tanjong Aru
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Gaya
7th	P145	1986-1990	Hsing Yin Shean (刑荣显)	DAP
8th		1990-1995	Joseph Voon Shin Choi (温新财)	GR (PBS)
9th	P151	1995-1999	Yee Moh Chai (于墨斋)
10th		1999-2004		PBS
Constituency abolished, split into Penampang, Sepanggar, Kota Kinabalu and Putatan

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1967–1974	1974–1985	1985–1995	1995–2004	2004–2020	2020–present
Tanjong Aru				Api-Api
			Petagas
			Sembulan

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PBS	Yee Moh Chai	11,826	50.02	5.67
	BN	Philip Yong Chiew Lip	11,281	47.72	9.90
	DAP	Oh Choo Hong	534	2.26	15.57
Total valid votes			23,641	100.00
Total rejected ballots			111
Unreturned ballots			275
Turnout			24,027	58.01	6.95
Registered electors
Majority			545	2.30	4.23
	PBS hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1995

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PBS	Yee Moh Chai	10,306	44.35	7.20
	BN	Joseph Voon Shin Choi	8,788	37.82	37.82
	DAP	Fung Ket Wing	4,142	17.83	2.63
Total valid votes			23,236	100.00
Total rejected ballots			151
Unreturned ballots			76
Turnout			23,463	64.96	8.99
Registered electors
Majority			1,518	6.53	16.11
	PBS hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1990

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PBS	Joseph Voon Shin Choi	8,504	51.55	51.55
	Independent	Jabar	4,687	28.41	28.41
	DAP	Hsing Yin Shean	2,507	15.20	39.07
	AKAR	Pandikar Amin Mulia	763	4.62	4.62
	Independent	Charles Tulis @ Mohd. Salleh	37	0.22	0.22
Total valid votes			16,498	100.00
Total rejected ballots			173
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			16,671	55.97	4.52
Registered electors			29,787
Majority			3,817	23.14	9.41
	PBS gain from DAP		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DAP	Hsing Yin Shean	5,981	54.27
	BN	Chong Eng Leong	4,468	40.54
	BERJAYA	Charles Fung Mosuil	572	5.19
Total valid votes			11,021	100.00
Total rejected ballots			85
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			11,106	51.45
Registered electors			21,587
Majority			1,513	13.73
This was a new constituency created.

References

• "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia . Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-20.