Kuala Rajang (federal constituency)

Kuala Rajang was a federal constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1990 to 2008.

Kuala Rajang

Sarawak constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1987
Constituency abolished	2008
First contested	1990
Last contested	2004

The federal constituency was created in the 1987 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 2008 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Kuala Rajang
Parliament	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created, renamed from Paloh
8th	1990-1995	Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha	BN (PBB)
9th	1995-1999
10th	1999-2004	Mohd Effendi Norwawi
11th	2004-2008	Wahab Dolah
Constituency abolished, split into Igan and Tanjong Manis

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1969–1978	1978–1990	1990–1999	1999–2008	2008–2016	2016−present
Kuala Rajang			Belawai
			Matu-Daro
			Serdeng

Election results

Malaysian general election, 2004

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On the nomination day, Wahab Dolah won uncontested.
	BN	Wahab Dolah
Total valid votes				100.00
Total rejected ballots
Unreturned ballots
Turnout
Registered electors
Majority
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1999

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Mohd Effendi Norwawi	14,306	79.36
	KEADILAN	Lamasudin @ Udie Salleh @ Urdie Salleh	3,720	20.64
Total valid votes			18,026	100.00
Total rejected ballots			486
Unreturned ballots			31
Turnout			18,543	67.07
Registered electors
Majority			10,586
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1995

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
On the nomination day, Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha won uncontested.
	BN	Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha
Total valid votes				100.00
Total rejected ballots
Unreturned ballots
Turnout
Registered electors
Majority
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1990

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Abang Abu Bakar Abang Mustapha	10,886	72.53
	Independent	Asbor Abdullah	2,230	14.86
	Independent	Ali Hassan Jajol	1,892	12.61
Total valid votes			15,008	100.00
Total rejected ballots			411
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			15,419	65.62
Registered electors
Majority			8,656
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 2016-05-05.