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Pilah

political subdivision in Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ65083564 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pilah is a state constituency in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly.

The state constituency was first contested in 1959 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

Demographics

History

Polling districts

According to the federal gazette issued on 23 July 2026, the Pilah constituency is divided into 12 polling districts.

Representation history

Election results

References

Sources

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

Editorial summary

“Pilah” enters the record as political subdivision in Malaysia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pilah, political and subdivision 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—1959, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pilah, political and subdivision.
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“Pilah” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pilah, political and subdivision provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65083564. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1959 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pilah” 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.