Kuala Rajang (federal constituency)

Kuala Rajang was a federal constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1990 to 2008.

Kuala Rajang

Sarawak constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1987
Constituency abolished	2008
First contested	1990
Last contested	2004

The federal constituency was created in the 1987 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 2008 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Kuala Rajang
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Paloh and Rajang
8th	P167	1990-1995	Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha (ابڠ ابو بكر ابڠ مصطفى)	BN (PBB)
9th	P169	1995-1999
10th	P180	1999-2004	Mohd Effendi Norwawi (محمد ايففيند نورواوي)
11th	P206	2004-2008	Wahab Dolah (وهب دولة‎)
Constituency abolished, split into Igan and Tanjong Manis

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1969–1978	1978–1990	1990–1999	1999–2008	2008–2016	2016−present
Kuala Rajang			Belawai
			Matu-Daro
			Serdeng

Election results

Malaysian general election, 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On the nomination day, Wahab Dolah won uncontested.
	BN	Wahab Dolah
Total valid votes				100.00
Total rejected ballots
Unreturned ballots
Turnout
Registered electors			28706
Majority
	BN hold		Swing

Elector count is from Tindak Malaysia's Github^[1]

Malaysian general election, 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Mohd Effendi Norwawi	14,306	79.36	79.36
	PKR	Lamasudin @ Udie Salleh @ Urdie Salleh	3,720	20.64	20.64
Total valid votes			18,026	100.00
Total rejected ballots			486
Unreturned ballots			31
Turnout			18,543	67.07
Registered electors
Majority			10,586	58.72
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1995

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On the nomination day, Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha won uncontested.
	BN	Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha
Total valid votes				100.00
Total rejected ballots
Unreturned ballots
Turnout
Registered electors			27,339
Majority
	BN hold		Swing

Elector Count is from Tindak Malaysia's Github^[2]

Malaysian general election, 1990

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha	10,886	72.53
	Independent	Asbor Abdullah	2,230	14.86
	Independent	Ali Hassan Jajol	1,892	12.61
Total valid votes			15,008	100.00
Total rejected ballots			411
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			15,419	65.62
Registered electors			23,498
Majority			8,656	57.67
This was a new constituency created.