Batu Lancang (state constituency)

Batu Lancang

Penang constituency
Batu Lancang (white) on Penang Island
State constituency
Legislature	Penang State Legislative Assembly
MLA	Law Heng Kiang DAP
Constituency created	1986
First contested	1986
Last contested	2013
Demographics
Electors (2016)	26,258

Batu Lancang is a state constituency in Penang, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Penang State Legislative Assembly since 2004. It covers two of George Town's suburbs - Batu Lanchang and parts of Jelutong.

The state constituency was first contested in 1986 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Penang State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system. Since 2013^[update], the State Assemblyman for Batu Lancang is Law Heng Kiang from the Democratic Action Party (DAP), which is part of the state's ruling coalition, Pakatan Harapan.

The Batu Lancang constituency contains the polling districts of Batu Lanchang, Chemor Lane, Desa Green, Jalan Penaga, Jelutong Road, Lilitan Hargreaves, Lorong Parit Buntar, Panchor Road, Solok Batu Lanchang and Tingkat Jelutong. This state seat encompasses all of the Batu Lanchang suburb and a small western portion of Jelutong up to Jelutong Road to the east.

To the west, the Batu Lancang seat is separated from the neighbouring Seri Delima constituency by Green Lane, with the affluent neighbourhood of Green Lane west of the road falling under Seri Delima. The Batu Lancang constituency also stretches north up to Free School Road and Jalan Perak.

During the 1995 State Elections, Chong Eng from the DAP was elected as the State Assemblyman for Batu Lancang, becoming the first woman to be elected into the Penang State Legislative Assembly. Between 1995 and 1999, she was also the sole opposition assemblyman in the State Legislative Assembly, which was dominated at the time by the Barisan Nasional (BN) federal ruling coalition.