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Dabong (state constituency)

state constituency in Kelantan, Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ48732393 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

The state constituency was first contested in 1986 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Kelantan State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

Demographics

History

Polling districts

According to the Gazette issued on 30 March 2018, the Dabong constituency has a total of 12 polling districts.

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The public source identifies “Dabong (state constituency)” as state constituency in Kelantan, Malaysia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dabong, state and constituency.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dabong, state and constituency providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48732393. Authority coordinates are 5.383, 102.017. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dabong (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.