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Kampong Gajah

political subdivision in Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ65085301 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kampong Gajah is a state constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Perak State Legislative Assembly.

Demographics

History

Polling districts

According to the federal gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Kampong Gajah constituency is divided into 33 polling districts.

Representation history

Election results

References

"14th General Election Malaysia (GE14 / PRU14) - Perak". election.thestar.com.my.

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The public source identifies “Kampong Gajah” as political subdivision in Malaysia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kampong, Gajah and political.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kampong, Gajah and political providing the first useful test.
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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 Q65085301. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kampong Gajah” 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.