1962 Kuala Trengganu Selatan by-election

1962 Kuala Trengganu Selatan by-election
19 March 1962
P027 seat in the Dewan Rakyat
Turnout13,761
  First party Second party Third party
  All Neg PMIP
Candidate Ismail Kassim Garieb Abdul Raouf Tengku Shahdan Tengku Abdul Majid
Party UMNO Parti Negara PMIP
Alliance Alliance
Popular vote 7,275 5,198 889
Percentage 54.45% 38.90% 6.65%
MP before election

Onn Jaafar
Parti Negara

Elected MP

Ismail Kassim
Alliance (UMNO)

The Kuala Trengganu Selatan by-election is a parliamentary by-election that was held on 19 March 1962 in the state of Terengganu in the Federation of Malaya. The Kuala Trengganu Selatan seat fell vacant following the death of its member of parliament Onn Jaafar of Parti Negara. He won the seat in 1959 Malayan general election with a majority of 2,612 votes.

Ismail Kassim of Alliance, won the by election, defeating Garieb Abdul Raouf of Parti Negara and Tengku Shahdan Tengku Abdul Majid of PMIP with a majority of 2,077 votes. The constituency had 20,400 voters.

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