Petaling (federal constituency)

Petaling was a federal constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 1986.^[1]

Petaling

Selangor constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1974
Constituency abolished	1986
First contested	1974
Last contested	1982

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 1986 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Petaling
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Damansara and Bungsar
4th	P081	1974-1978	Oh Keng Seng (胡更生)	DAP
5th		1978-1982	Lim Kit Siang (林吉祥)
6th		1982-1986	Yeoh Poh San (杨宝山)	BN (MCA)
Constituency abolished, split into Petaling Jaya and Puchong

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1955–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Petaling			Petaling Jaya
			Serdang
			Sungei Way

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Yeoh Poh San	42,710	53.29	16.12
	DAP	Patto Perumal	37,436	46.71	16.12
Total valid votes			80,146	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,800
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			81,946	71.44	3.15
Registered electors			114,704
Majority			5,274	6.58	19.08
	BN gain from DAP		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1978

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Lim Kit Siang	41,017	62.83	22.42
	BN	Yeoh Poh San	24,263	37.17	0.30
Total valid votes			65,280	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,309
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			67,589	74.59	0.17
Registered electors			90,611
Majority			16,754	25.66	22.12
	DAP hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1974

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	DAP	Oh Keng Seng	14,106	40.41
	BN	Goh Hock Guan	12,868	36.87
	PEKEMAS	Pang Koik My	5,961	17.08
	Independent	Lim Kui Sang	1,970	5.64
Total valid votes			34,905	100.00
Total rejected ballots			925
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			35,830	74.76
Registered electors			48,100
Majority			1,238	3.54
This was a new constituency created.