Segamat is a federal constituency in
Segamat District
The Segamat District () or simply Segamat is a district in the Malaysian state of Johor. Segamat is also the name of the district's primary town. Segamat district is one of the three landlocked districts in Johor, the other being Kluang and Ku ...
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Johor
Johor, also spelled Johore,'' is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. It borders with Pahang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the north. Johor has maritime borders with Singapore ...
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...
, that has been represented in the
Dewan Rakyat
The Dewan Rakyat (; Jawi script, Jawi: ), is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Malaysia, Parliament which is the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitu ...
since 1955 to 1959 and 1974 to present.
The federal constituency was created in the 1955 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
Demographics
History
Polling districts
According to the gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Segamat constituency has a total of 43 polling districts.
Representation history
From 1982 to 2018, the Member of Parliament for Segamat was always someone named "Subramaniam" from
MIC, but they were three different individuals. From 1982 to 1990 and again from 1995 to 2004, the MP was
Subramaniam Sinniah
Subramaniam s/o Sinniah (; 6 October 1944 – 5 July 2022), or S. Subramaniam as he was known to his supporters, was a Malaysian politician of Indian origin who was a member of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), a component party of the ruli ...
(commonly known as S. Subramaniam). Between 1990 and 1995, the seat was held by S.S. Subramaniam (commonly known as SS).
From 2004 to 2018, the seat was represented by
Subramaniam Sathasivam.
State constituency
Current state assembly members
Local governments & postcodes
Election results
References
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{{Malaysian federal constituencies
Johor federal constituencies
Constituencies established in 1955
Constituencies disestablished in 1959