Mentakab (federal constituency)

Mentakab

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

Mentakab was a federal constituency in Pahang, 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 Mentakab
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Temerloh
7th	P078	1986-1990	Siti Zaharah Sulaiman (سيتي زهرة سليمان)	BN (UMNO)
8th		1990-1995
9th	P082	1995-1999	Fu Ah Kiow (胡亚桥)	BN (MCA)
10th		1999-2004
Constituency abolished, split into Kuala Krau and Temerloh

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1955–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Mentakab				Jenderak
				Lancang
				Sanggang

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Fu Ah Kiow @ Oh (Fu) Soon Guan	18,499	60.70	8.35
	DAP	Leong Mee Meng	11,975	39.30	39.30
Total valid votes			30,474	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,504
Unreturned ballots			166
Turnout			32,144	73.44	1.31
Registered electors
Majority			6,524	21.40	18.54
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1995

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Fu Ah Kiow @ Oh (Fu) Soon Guan	19,906	69.05	5.61
	S46	Mohamed Harun	8,393	29.11	7.45
	Independent	Soleh Mohamad	530	1.84	1.84
Total valid votes			28,829	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,346
Unreturned ballots			1
Turnout			30,176	72.13	1.66
Registered electors
Majority			11,513	39.94	13.06
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1990

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Siti Zaharah Sulaiman	17,147	63.44	5.19
	S46	Johari Ismail	9,883	36.56	36.56
Total valid votes			27,030	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,212
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			28,242	73.79
Registered electors			38,271
Majority			7,264	26.88	10.38
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Siti Zaharah Sulaiman	15,271	68.63
	PAS	Mohamed Rusdi Arif	6,980	31.37
Total valid votes			22,251	100.00
Total rejected ballots			945
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			23,196	71.59
Registered electors			32,402
Majority			8,291	37.26
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.