Kinabatangan (federal constituency)

Kinabatangan is a federal constituency in Sandakan Division (Tongod District, Kinabatangan District and Beluran District), Sabah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1971.

Kinabatangan (P187)
Sabah constituency
Federal constituency
LegislatureDewan Rakyat
MP
Constituency created1966
First contested1969
Last contested2022
Demographics
Population (2020)216,087
Electors (2022)44,773
Area (km²)18,068
Pop. density (per km²)12

The federal constituency was created in the 1966 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.

Kinabatangan is the largest parliamentary constituency in Sabah and third largest in Malaysia overall, spanning an area of over 18,000 sq km.

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