Tangga Batu (state constituency)

Tangga Batu

Malacca constituency
Defunct state constituency
Legislature	Malacca State Legislative Assembly
Constituency created	1994
Constituency abolished	2004
First contested	1995
Last contested	1999

Tangga Batu was a state constituency in Malacca, Malaysia, that was represented in the Malacca State Legislative Assembly from 1995 to 2004.

The state constituency was created in the 1994 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Malacca State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.

History

It was abolished in 2004 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Tangga Batu
Assembly	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency split from Sungai Udang and Tanjong Minyak
9th	N11	1995–1999	Hazizah Mohd Sultan	BN (UMNO)
10th		1999–2004	Yaakub Md. Amin
Constituency split into Pantai Kundor, Kelebang and Paya Rumput

Election results

Source:

Malacca state election, 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Yaakub Md. Amin	8,101	60.08	14.04
	PKR	Hamzah Awang	5,382	39.92	39.92
Total valid votes			13,483	100.00
Total rejected ballots			305
Unreturned ballots			13
Turnout			13,801	77.33	0.58
Registered electors			17,847
Majority			2,719	20.17	33.49
	BN hold		Swing

Malacca state election, 1995

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Hazizah Mohd Sultan	9,228	74.13
	PAS	Jaliluddin Abd. Wahid	2,548	20.47
	S46	Abass Mohamed Noor	673	5.41
Total valid votes			12,449	100.00
Total rejected ballots			279
Unreturned ballots			26
Turnout			12,754	76.75
Registered electors			16,618
Majority			6,680	53.66
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.