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Demit

state constituency in Kelantan, Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ48732335 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

The state constituency was first contested in 2004 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Kelantan State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

Demographics

As of 2020, Demit has a population of 53,255 people.

History

Polling districts

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

Editorial summary

“Demit” enters the record as state constituency in Kelantan, Malaysia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Demit, 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—2004, 2020, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Demit, state and constituency.
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“Demit” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Demit, state and constituency provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48732335. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2020 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Demit” 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.