Pengkalan Rinting (state constituency)

Pengkalan Rinting

Johor constituency
Defunct state constituency
Legislature	Johor State Legislative Assembly
Constituency created	2003
Constituency abolished	2018
First contested	2004
Last contested	2013

Pengkalan Rinting was a state constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Johor State Legislative Assembly since 2004 until 2018.

The state constituency was created in the 2003 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Johor State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.

History

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Pengkalan Rinting
Assembly	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Tambatan and Tanjong Kupang
11th	N46	2004–2008	Low Teh Hian (劉德賢)	BN (MCA)
12th		2008-2013	Chia Song Cheng (謝松清)
13th		2013–2015	Cheo Yee How (鄒裕豪)	PR (DAP)
		2015–2018		PH (DAP)
Constituency renamed to Perling

Election results

Source:

Johor state election, 2013

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	DAP	Cheo Yee How	26,464	50.78	50.78
	BN	Chang Mei Kee	24,494	47.00	17.72
Total valid votes			50,958	97.78
Total rejected ballots			1,063	2.04
Unreturned ballots			92	0.18
Turnout			52,113	85.13
Registered electors			61,217
Majority			1,970
	DAP gain from BN		Swing		-

Johor state election, 2008

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Chia Song Cheng	21,203	64.72	17.66
	PAS	Rahmatullah Abdul	10,829	33.05	17.49
Total valid votes			32,032	97.77
Total rejected ballots			610	1.86
Unreturned ballots			121	0.37
Turnout			32,763	70.21
Registered electors			46,664
Majority			10,374
	BN hold		Swing		17.58

Johor state election, 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Low Teh Hian	23,321	82.38
	PAS	Rahmatullah Abdul	4,403	15.56
Total valid votes			27,724	97.95
Total rejected ballots			541	1.91
Unreturned ballots			40	0.14
Turnout			28,305	67.54
Registered electors			41,909
Majority			18,918
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 2016-04-27.