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Sungai Burong (state constituency)

state constituency of Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ25246511 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sungai Burong is a state constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly since 1974. It has been represented by Mohd Zamri Mohd Zainuldin of Perikatan Nasional (PN) since 2023.

The state constituency was created in the 1974 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Selangor 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 Sungai Burong constituency has a total of 15 polling districts.

Representation history

Election results

References

"Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-21.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sungai Burong (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.