Sungai Balang (state constituency) explained

Sungai Balang
State:	Johor
State-Rep:	Selamat Takim
State-Rep-Party:	Barisan Nasional
State-Status:	active
State-Created:	1994
State-Election-First:	1995
State-Election-Last:	2022
Demo-Pop:	40,414
Demo-Pop-Ref:	2020
Demo-Electors:	30,121
Demo-Electors-Date:	2022
Demo-Area:	203

Sungai Balang is a state constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that is represented in the Johor State Legislative Assembly.^[1]

The state constituency was first contested in 1995 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Johor State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

History

Polling districts

According to the federal gazette issued on 30 March 2018, the Sungai Balang constituency is divided into 19 polling districts.^[2]

State conatituency	Polling Districts	Code	Location
Sungai Balang (N16)	Parit Shafiee	146/16/01	Balai Raya Kampung Parit Salman
	Parit Kassim	146/16/02	SJK (C) Limbong
	Bukit Mor	146/16/03	SJK (C) Hwa Ming
	Parit Nawee	146/16/04	SK Parit Nawi
	Bandar Parit Jawa Utara	146/16/05	SK Parit Jawa
	Bandar Parit Jawa Selatan	146/16/06	SJK (C) Chin Kwang Wahyu
	Parit Jawa	146/16/07	SMK Raja Muda
	Parit Tengah	146/16/08	SK Sri Jamil
	Parit Jamil Darat	146/16/09	SK Simpang 4
	Parit Pechah	146/16/10	SMK Sri Menanti
	Sri Menanti	146/16/11	SK Seri Menanti
	Sungai Sudah	146/16/12	SK Tanjong Tohor
	Sungai Balang	146/16/13	SK Orangkaya Ali
	Sungai Balang Besar	146/16/14	SK Jalan Yusof
	Sungai Balang Darat	146/16/15	SK Sg Balang Darat
	Sarang Buaya Darat	146/16/16	SK Parit Latiff
	Parit Yusof	146/16/17	SMK Pekan Baru Muar
	Sarang Buaya Laut	146/16/18	SJK (C) Pei Chun
	Kampong Parit Bulat	146/16/19	SK Parit Bulat

Representation history

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Sungai Balang
Assembly	Years	Member	Party
Constituency created from Parit Jawa
9th	1995-1999	Muntaha Kailan
10th	1999-2004	Md Salikon Sarpin
11th	2004-2008	Robia Kosai
12th	2008-2013
13th	2013-2018	Zaiton Ismail
14th	2018-2022
15th	2022–present	Selamat Takim

Notes and References

1. News: Johor 14th General Election Malaysia (GE14 / PRU14). The Star. Petaling Jaya. 23 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20180511081855/https://election.thestar.com.my/johor.html. 11 May 2018. live. 16 April 2019.
2. Web site: Federal Government Gazette: Notice of Polling Districts and Polling Centres for the Federal and State Constituencies of the States of Malaya [P.U. (B) 157/2018]]. 2019-01-03. 2018-03-30. Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia.