Petaling was a federal constituency in

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, that was represented in the

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from 1974 to 1986.Thong, L. B. (2006). PETALING JAYA: THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF MALAYSIA’S FIRST NEW TOWN. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 79(2 (291)), 1–22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41493670 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.

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