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Seberang Tengah (federal constituency)

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Legislature
  
Dewan Rakyat

Constituency abolished
  
1974

Last contested
  
1969

Constituency created
  
1958

First contested
  
1959

Seberang Tengah was a federal constituency in Penang, Malaysia, that was represented in the Dewan Rakyat from 1959 to 1974.

The federal constituency was created from parts of the Wellesley North constituency in the 1958 redistribution and was mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Its last election was in 1969. It disappeared in the 1974 election and was split into Bukit Mertajam and Permatang Pauh.

History

It was abolished in 1974 when it was redistributed.

References

Seberang Tengah (federal constituency) Wikipedia