Semerah (federal constituency)

Semerah was a federal constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 1986.

Semerah

Johor constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1974
Constituency abolished	1986
First contested	1974
Last contested	1982

The federal constituency was created in the 1974 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 1986 when it was redistributed.

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Semerah
Parliament	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Batu Pahat Dalam
4th	1974-1978	Fatimah Abdul Majid	BN (UMNO)
5th	1978-1982	Shariffah Dorah Syed Mohammed
6th	1982-1986
Constituency abolished, renamed to Parit Sulong

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1954–59*	1959–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2018	2018–present
Semerah			Peserai
			Sri Menanti

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Shariffah Dorah Syed Mohammed	25,596	86.39
	PAS	Abdullah Rahmat	4,034	13.61
Total valid votes			29,630	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,082
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			30,712	73.61
Registered electors			41,721
Majority			21,562
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1978

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Shariffah Dorah Syed Mohammed	22,264	86.07
	PAS	Mohamed Kassim	3,602	13.93
Total valid votes			25,866	100.00
Total rejected ballots
Unreturned ballots
Turnout
Registered electors			35,546
Majority			18,662
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1974

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Fatimah Abdul Majid	16,030	78.56
	Independent	Abdul Hadi Mohamed Yassin	4,374	21.44
Total valid votes			20,404	100.00
Total rejected ballots			636
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			21,040	70.50
Registered electors			29,846
Majority			11,656
This was a new constituency created.

References