Padas (federal constituency)

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

Padas

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

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 Padas
Parliament	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created, renamed from Ulu Padas
7th	1986-1990	Kadoh Agundong	BN (PBS)
8th	1990-1995	Raden Malleh	PBS
Constituency abolished, merged into Tenom

State constituency

Parliamentary constituency	State constituency
	1967–1974	1974–1986	1986–1995	1995–2004	2004–2020	2020–present
Padas			Kemabong
			Sipitang
			Tenom

Election results

Malaysian general election, 1990

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	PBS	Raden Malleh	9,848	84.37
	DAP	Paul Kadau	1,824	15.63
Total valid votes			11,672	100.00
Total rejected ballots			791
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			12,463	51.65
Registered electors
Majority			8,024
	PBS gain from BN		Swing		?

Malaysian general election, 1986

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	BN	Kadoh Agundong	7,014	65.30
	BERJAYA	Jinuin Jimin	3,727	34.70
Total valid votes			10,741	100.00
Total rejected ballots			187
Unreturned ballots
Turnout			10,928	59.24
Registered electors			18,447
Majority			3,287
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.