Batu Uban is a state constituency in

Penang Penang ( ms, Pulau Pinang, is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay ...

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, that has been represented in the

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since 1986. It covers a portion of

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's eastern seaboard, including the southernmost suburbs of George Town. The state constituency was first contested in 1986 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the

under the

first-past-the-post voting system In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...

. , the State Assemblyman for Batu Uban is Kumaresan Aramugam from

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(PKR), which is part of the state's ruling coalition,

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(PH).

Definition

Polling districts

According to the federal gazette issued on 30 March 2018, the Batu Uban constituency is divided into 8 polling districts. It encompasses the southernmost halve of

Gelugor Gelugor is a southern suburb of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. Named after a plant species, Gelugor lies along the eastern seaboard of Penang Island, between Jelutong and Sungai Dua, and nearly south of the city centre. Gelugor had been po ...

, a suburb of George Town, including

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and Minden Heights. Surrounding neighbourhoods such as

Batu Uban Batu Uban is a residential neighbourhood at the eastern coast of Penang Island in Malaysia, about south of the centre of George Town, Penang's capital city, and adjacent to the Gelugor suburb. Founded by ethnic Minangkabaus in the early 18th ce ...

Sungai Dua Sungai Dua is a residential neighbourhood within the city of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. Located south of the city centre, this neighbourhood borders Universiti Sains Malaysia to the north, Sungai Nibong to the east and Bukit Jambul to t ...

Sungai Nibong Sungai Nibong is a residential neighbourhood near the eastern coast of Penang Island in Malaysia, about south of the centre of George Town, Penang's capital city. The neighbourhood, within the Northeast Penang Island and Southwest Penang Islan ...

and

Bukit Jambul Bukit Jambul is a residential neighbourhood within the Northeast Penang Island District, Penang, Malaysia. Located southwest of the centre of George Town, Penang, George Town, the capital city of Penang, Bukit Jambul is also adjacent to the indust ...

are also situated within this state seat. The northern limits of this constituency roughly follows the course of the Gelugor River into the sea, thereby dividing

into the northern and southern halves (with the northern half under the neighbouring Seri Delima constituency). The Batu Uban seat is also bounded to the south by Jalan Tun Dr Awang,

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and

Demographics

History

Election results

The electoral results for the Batu Uban state constituency in

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and

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are as follows.

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