It covers the northwestern corner of Penang Island, including the town of Teluk Bahang.

The state constituency was first contested in 1974 and is mandated to return a single Assemblyman to the Penang State Legislative Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

According to the federal gazette issued on 30 March 2018, the Telok Bahang constituency is divided into 7 polling districts.

[3] It encompasses the entire northwestern corner of Penang Island, including the eponymous town of Teluk Bahang near the island's northwestern tip, and much of the sparsely-populated rural west coast of Penang Island.

Ethnic breakdown of Telok Bahang's electorate as of 2023[4] The electoral results for the Telok Bahang state constituency in 2008, 2013 and 2018 are as follows.