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Simpang Jeram

state constituency of Johor, Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ65085584 ↗
Source-derived summary

Simpang Jeram is a state constituency in Johor, Malaysia, that is represented in the Johor State Legislative Assembly.

The state constituency was first contested in 2018 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Johor State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

Demographics

As of 2020, Simpang Jeram has a population of 66,860 people.

History

Polling districts

According to the federal gazette issued on 30 March 2018, the Simpang Jeram constituency is divided into 13 polling districts.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Simpang Jeram” as state constituency of Johor, Malaysia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Simpang, Jeram and state can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as state constituency of Johor, Malaysia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simpang Jeram” 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.