Setapak (Kuala Lumpur federal constituency)

For Selangor, see Setapak (Selangor federal constituency).

Setapak

the Federal Territories of Malaysia constituency
Defunct federal constituency
Legislature	Dewan Rakyat
Constituency created	1974
Constituency abolished	1986
First contested	1974
Last contested	1982

Setapak was a federal constituency in the Federal Territories, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1974 to 1986.

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

Representation history

Members of Parliament for Setapak
Parliament	No	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created, renamed from Setapak
4th	P085	1974-1978	Mohd. Idris Ibrahim (محمد. إدريس إبراهيم)	BN (UMNO)
5th		1978-1982
6th		1982-1986	Mohammad Idris Mohammad Basari (محمد إدريس محمد باسري)
Constituency abolished, split into Batu and Titiwangsa

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1982

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Mohammad Idris Mohammad Basari	32,348	65.42	65.42
	DAP	Mohamad Isa Mohamad Ismail	12,649	25.58	25.58
	PAS	Othman Abdul Razak	4,452	9.00	9.00
Total valid votes			49,449	100.00
Total rejected ballots			498
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			49,947	62.23
Registered electors			80,266
Majority			19,699	39.84
	BN hold		Swing

Malaysian general election, 1978

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

Malaysian general election, 1974

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BN	Mohd. Idris Ibrahim	14,743	70.54
	PEKEMAS	Ishak Surin	3,213	15.73
	DAP	Ganga Nayar	2,944	14.09
Total valid votes			20,900	100.00
Total rejected ballots			177
Unreturned ballots			0
Turnout			21,077	60.58
Registered electors			34,792
Majority			11,530	54.81
This was a new constituency created.

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