Bangsar (federal constituency)

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

Bangsar

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

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.

History

It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Bangsar
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Kuala Lumpur Barat
Parliament of the Federation of Malaya
1st	P071	1959-1963	V. David ( வே. தேவிட்)	SF (Lab)
Parliament of Malaysia
1st	P071	1963-1964	V. David (வே. தேவிட்)	SB (Lab)
2nd		1964-1965	Devan Nair (ദേവൻ നായർ)	PAP
		1965-1969		DAP
		1969-1971	Parliament was suspended[1][2]
3rd	P071	1971-1974	Goh Hock Guan (吴福源)	DAP
Constituency abolished, renamed to Damansara

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1955–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Bangsar		Pantai
		Salak

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Goh Hock Guan	37,050	79.34	79.34
	Alliance	Lew Sip Hon	9,648	20.66	4.92
Total valid votes			46,698	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,320
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			48,018	59.22	8.50
Registered electors			81,086
Majority			27,402	58.68	56.56
	DAP hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1964

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PAP	Devan Nair	13,494	35.36	35.36
	Socialist Front	V. David	12,686	33.24	7.35
	Alliance	Koh Pooi Kee	9,761	25.58	4.58
	PPP	Chew Choo Soot	2,219	5.81	4.15
Total valid votes			38,160	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,293
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			39,453	67.72	0.29
Registered electors			58,261
Majority			808	2.12	65.89
	PAP gain from Socialist Front		Swing		?

Malayan general election, 1959

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Socialist Front	V. David	9,734	40.59
	Independent	Koh Pooi Kee	6,821	28.45
	Alliance	Lau Joo Kooi	5,036	21.00
	PPP	Ong Yeow Kay	2,388	9.96
Total valid votes			23,979	100.00
Total rejected ballots			198
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			24,177	68.01
Registered electors			35,549
Majority			2,913	12.14
This was a new constituency created.