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The Dewan Rakyat sits in the Houses of Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, along with the Dewan Negara, the upper house. The Dewan Rakyat is a directly elected body consisting of 222 members known as Members of Parliament (MPs). Members are elected by first-past-the-post voting with one member from each federal constituency.
The 15th General Election witnessed 148 governmental seats and 74 non-governmental seats filled the Dewan Rakyat. The government side has 43 safe seats and 9 fairly safe seats, while the other side has 21 safe seats and 10 fairly safe seats.
This is a complete list of members of the Dewan Rakyat, lower house of the Parliament of Malaysia. Members of the Dewan Rakyat, 1st Malayan Parliament; 1959–1964;
This is a list of Members of the Malaysian Parliament who represented multiple states during their federal parliamentary career. Most people in the list represented different states in the Dewan Rakyat. Nobody has ever represented different states in the Dewan Negara, although various attempts have been made.
Each federal territory elects representatives from single-member constituencies drawn based on population to the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) of the Parliament. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong appoints senators to represent the territories in the Dewan Negara; Kuala Lumpur has two senators, while Putrajaya and Labuan each has one.
This is a complete list of the individual parliaments of the Parliament of Malaysia. 1st Parliament of the Federation of Malaya: 1959–1963 1st Malaysian Parliament: 1963–1964 2nd Malaysian Parliament: 1964–1969 3rd Malaysian Parliament: 1971–1974 4th Malaysian Parliament: 1974–1978 5th Malaysian Parliament: 1978–1982 6th Malaysian Parliament: 1982–1986 7th Malaysian Parliament ...
The Parliament of Malaysia (Malay: Parlimen Malaysia; Jawi: ڤرليمن مليسيا ) is the national legislature of Malaysia, based on the Westminster system.The bicameral parliament consists of the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives, lit.
From 1963 until 1973 the seats were grouped into the States of Malaya (104 seats), Sabah (16 members), Sarawak (24 members) and Singapore (15 members until 1965). From 1973 onwards the number of seats per state and Federal Territory were prescribed and changed with subsequent constitutional amendments, the last being in 2006.