Jambongan (federal constituency)

Jambongan
Sabah constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1984
Constituency abolished	1995
First contested	1986
Last contested	1990

Jambongan was a federal constituency in Sabah, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1986 to 1995.

The federal constituency was created in the 1984 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 1995 when it was redistributed.

Representation history[]

Members of Parliament for Jambongan
Parliament	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created, renamed from Labuk-Sugut
7th	1986-1990		BN (PBS)
8th	1990-1995		PBS
Constituency abolished, split into Beluran and Libaran

State constituency[]

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
Parliamentary constituency	1967–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2020	2020–present
Jambongan			Labuk
			Sugut
			Sungai Sibuga

Election results[]

Malaysian general election, 1990
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Bersatu Sabah	Metah Asang @ Michael Asang	8,817	59.51
	Independent	Ridi Alawangsa	5,393	36.40
	AKAR	Thamrin Zaini	376	2.54
	Independent	Nordin Khani	231	1.56
Total valid votes			14,817	100.00
Total rejected ballots			174
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			14,991	50.20
Registered electors
Majority			3,424
	Parti Bersatu Sabah gain from BN		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1986
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Metah Asang @ Michael Asang	7,495	73.11
	Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party	Hamzah Abdullah	2,757	26.89
Total valid votes			10,252	100.00
Total rejected ballots			174
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			10,426	48.57
Registered electors			21,468
Majority			4,738
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 2016-05-20.