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The Penang State Legislative Assembly's main function is to enact legislation and policies relating to the State List and Joint List as defined in the Federal Constitution. Its members also provide oversight on the state's executive branch of government, ensuring the state departments and agencies enforce the aforementioned legislation. [2]
This is a list of federal and state electoral districts within the Malaysian state of Penang. The state sends 13 representatives to the Malaysian federal Parliament and is divided into 40 state constituencies, each of which elects a single member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly .
Elections in Penang have been held in the Malaysian state of Penang since 1954, and have chosen Penang's elected representatives in the federal Dewan Rakyat and the Penang State Legislative Assembly. Federal level
This is the seating arrangement as of its last meeting on 29 November 2012. In addition, there were a seat that is labelled as VACANT, namely Titiwangsa. The seats vacancy is due to the death of the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, which happened on 17 July 2011 respectively.
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.
The Komtar Tower houses the Office of the Chief Minister of Penang, as well as other state government offices.. The Chief Minister is the head of government in Penang.He is officially appointed by the Governor, Penang's head of state, on the basis of the latter's judgement that the former commands the confidence of the majority of the State Assemblymen in the Penang State Legislative Assembly. [4]
N 1] On 24 February 2020, the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) and a faction of the Members of Parliament (MPs) from the People's Justice Party (PKR) led by the PKR's then-Deputy President Mohamed Azmin Ali left the governing coalition Pakatan Harapan, resulting in the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan coalition administration led by ...
The list excludes Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Labuan as Federal Territories do not have state legislative assemblies and are governed directly by the federal government under the Ministry of Federal Territories together with local authorities, namely the Kuala Lumpur City Hall, Putrajaya Corporation and Labuan Corporation respectively.