Pekan (federal constituency)
Federal constituency of Pahang, Malaysia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pekan is a federal constituency in Pekan District and Kuantan District, Pahang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1959.
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Pahang constituency | |
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Federal constituency | |
Legislature | Dewan Rakyat |
MP | |
Constituency created | 1958 |
First contested | 1959 |
Last contested | 2022 |
Demographics | |
Population (2020)[1] | 161,106 |
Electors (2022)[2] | 119,443 |
Area (km²)[3] | 3,846 |
Pop. density (per km²) | 41.9 |
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The federal constituency was created from parts of the Pahang Timor constituency in the 1958 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.