Limbang (state constituency)
 Sarawak constituency | |
|---|---|
| Defunct state constituency | |
| Legislature | Sarawak State Legislative Assembly |
| Constituency created | 1968 |
| Constituency abolished | 2006 |
| First contested | 1969 |
| Last contested | 2001 |
Limbang was a state constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly from 1969 to 2006.
The state constituency was created in the 1968 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.
History
[edit]It was abolished in 2006 after it was redistributed.
Representation history
[edit]| Members of the Legislative Assembly for Limbang | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
| Constituency created | |||
| 8th | 1970-1974 | James Wong Kim Min | SNAP |
| 9th | 1974-1979 | ||
| 10th | 1979-1983 | BN (SNAP) | |
| 11th | 1983-1987 | SNAP | |
| 12th | 1987-1991 | BN (SNAP) | |
| 13th | 1991-1996 | ||
| 14th | 1996-2001 | ||
| 15th | 2001-2006 | Richard Wong Shoon Fook | |
| Constituency abolished, renamed to Bukit Kota | |||
Election results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | Richard Wong Shoon Fook | 5,668 | 52.02 | ||
| Independent | Said Mohidin | 5,109 | 46.89 | ||
| PKR | Amran @ Hamdan Maidin | 118 | 1.08 | ||
| Total valid votes | 10,895 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 86 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 1 | ||||
| Turnout | 10,982 | 64.97 | |||
| Registered electors | 16,904 | ||||
| Majority | 559 | ||||
| BN hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On the nomination day, James Wong Kim Min won uncontested. | ||||||
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | |||||
| Total valid votes | 100.00 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | ||||||
| Registered electors | 15,704 | |||||
| Majority | ||||||
| BN hold | Swing |
| ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | 5,813 | 52.99 | ||
| PBDS | Edward Guatee Sundai | 2,819 | 25.70 | ||
| PERMAS | Munir Karim | 2,160 | 19.69 | ||
| DAP | Kong Sieng Kee | 179 | 1.63 | ||
| Total valid votes | 10,971 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | 114 | ||||
| Unreturned ballots | 53 | ||||
| Turnout | 11,138 | 69.57 | |||
| Registered electors | 16,009 | ||||
| Majority | 2,994 | ||||
| BN hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | Acclaimed | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | N/A | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Majority | |||||
| BN gain from SNAP | Swing | ?
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | Acclamied | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | N/A | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Majority | |||||
| SNAP gain from BN | Swing | ?
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BN | James Wong Kim Min | Accliamed | N/A | ||
| Total valid votes | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Majority | |||||
| BN gain from SNAP | Swing | ?
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | 3,224 | 57.52 | ||
| BN | Mustapha Besa | 2,224 | 39.68 | ||
| Independent | Lim Cho Seng | 157 | 2.80 | ||
| Total valid votes | 5,605 | 100.00 | |||
| Total rejected ballots | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | |||||
| Turnout | |||||
| Registered electors | |||||
| Majority | 1,000 | ||||
| SNAP hold | Swing |
| |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNAP | James Wong Kim Min | 2,935 | 63.69 | |||
| PBB | Bakar Abdullah | 1,068 | 23.18 | |||
| Independent | Pugi Yabai | 385 | 8.36 | |||
| Independent | Tahir Hassan | 220 | 4.77 | |||
| Total valid votes | 4,608 | 100.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 330 | |||||
| Unreturned ballots | ||||||
| Turnout | 4,938 | 79.85 | ||||
| Registered electors | 6,184 | |||||
| Majority | 867 | |||||
| This was a new constituency created. | ||||||
References
[edit]- "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-05.