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Cheka (state constituency)

political subdivision in Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ65064623 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cheka is a state constituency in Pahang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Pahang State Legislative Assembly.

Demographics

History

Polling districts

According to the federal gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Cheka constituency is divided into 11 polling districts.

Editorial summary

“Cheka (state constituency)” enters the record as political subdivision in Malaysia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cheka, state and constituency can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cheka, state and constituency.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65064623. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cheka (state constituency)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.