Ampang (state constituency)

Ampang

Selangor constituency
Defunct state constituency
Legislature	Selangor State Legislative Assembly
Constituency created	1958
Constituency abolished	2004
First contested	1959
Last contested	1999

Ampang was a state constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 2004.

The state constituency was created in the 1958 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Selangor State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.

History

It was abolished in 1986 when it was redistributed. It was re-created in 1994.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Ampang
Assembly	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created
1st	N11	1959-1964	Muhyeeddin Mohamed Zakaria	Alliance (UMNO)
2nd		1964-1969
		1969-1971	Assembly dissolved
3rd	N11	1971-1974	Wong Swee Oy (黃瑞霖)	DAP
4th	N15	1974-1978	Lim Heng Kiap (林廷甲)	BN (MCA)
5th		1978-1982	Tan Kui Sui @ Tan Kai See (陳葵士)
6th		1982-1986	Ahmad Razali Mohamad Ali	BN (UMNO)
Constituency abolished, split into Keramat and Pandan
Constituency re-created from Keramat
9th	N19	1995-1999	Mufti Suib	BN (UMNO)
10th		1999-2004
Constituency abolished, renamed to Bukit Antarabangsa

Election results

Selangor state election, 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Mufti Suib	10,776	52.76	19.48
	DAP	Yap Kok Heng	9,650	47.24	19.48
Total valid votes			20,426	100.00
Total rejected ballots			448
Unreturned ballots			61
Turnout			20,935	74.74	5.40
Registered electors			28,012
Majority			1,126	5.51	38.95
	BN hold		Swing

Selangor state election, 1995

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Mufti Suib	12,695	72.23	2.70
	DAP	Wong Kok Yew	4,880	27.77	27.77
Total valid votes			17,575	100.00
Total rejected ballots			453
Unreturned ballots			144
Turnout			18,172	69.34	4.86
Registered electors			26,208
Majority			7,815	44.47	5.41
	BN hold		Swing

Selangor state election, 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Ahmad Razali Mohamad Ali	29,348	87.08	87.08
	PAS	Abdul Karim Jamal	4,356	12.92	5.50
Total valid votes			33,704	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,148
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			34,852	69.39	4.99
Registered electors			50,229
Majority			24,992	74.15	49.22
	BN hold		Swing

Selangor state election, 1978

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Tan Kui Sui @ Tan Kai See	12,749	52.82	5.73
	DAP	Zainal Rampak	6,733	27.90	0.42
	PAS	Ibrahim Ja'afar	4,447	18.43	18.43
	Independent	Leow Kim Hock	206	0.85	0.85
Total valid votes			24,135	100.00
Total rejected ballots			789
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			24,924	74.38	0.86
Registered electors			33,509
Majority			6,016	24.93	5.31
	BN hold		Swing

Selangor state election, 1974

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Lim Heng Kiap	5,358	58.55	58.55
	DAP	Au Keng Wah	2,591	28.31	14.59
	PEKEMAS	Zainal Rampak	1,202	13.14	13.14
Total valid votes			9,151	100.00
Total rejected ballots			343
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			9,494	73.52	14.23
Registered electors			12,913
Majority			2,767	30.24	24.43
	BN gain from DAP		Swing		?

Selangor state election, 1969

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Wong Swee Oy	7,634	42.9	42.90
	Alliance	Muhyeeddin Mohamed Zakaria	6,601	37.09	25.40
	PMIP	Yunus Yatim	3,560	20.01	20.01
Total valid votes			17,795	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,118
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			18,913	59.29	10.38
Registered electors			31,899
Majority			1,033	5.81	19.19
	DAP gain from Alliance		Swing		?

Selangor state election, 1964

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Alliance	Muhyeeddin Mohamed Zakaria	7,865	62.50	13.22
	Socialist Front	Zakaria Mohamed Yusof	4,720	37.50	1.92
Total valid votes			12,585	100.00
Total rejected ballots			777
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			13,362	69.67	8.42
Registered electors			19,178
Majority			3,145	24.99	11.31
	Alliance hold		Swing		?

Selangor state election, 1959

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Alliance	Muhyeeddin Mohamed Zakaria	3,579	49.27
	Socialist Front	Yusoff Betuah	2,585	35.59
	PMIP	Mamat @ Abdul Samad Mohamed Salleh	853	11.74
	National Party	Aziz Abdullah	247	3.40
Total valid votes			7,264	100.00
Total rejected ballots			86
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			7,350	61.26
Registered electors			11,999
Majority			994	13.68
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 2016-05-25.