2018 Malaysian state elections

2018 Malaysian state election

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12 out of 13 state legislative (DUN)
Results of the elections:      Pakatan Harapan hold      Pakatan Harapan gain      Barisan Nasional hold      Gagasan Sejahtera hold      Gagasan Sejahtera gain      Hung Parliament      No election/Federal Territories

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State elections were held in all states and territories in Malaysia except Sarawak on 9 May 2018, alongside general elections.^[1] Pakatan Harapan alliance received over 50% of the vote across the 12 states and territories where elections took place and won the most seats. They emerged as the largest faction in all states and territories except Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis and Pahang.

Summary of the 2018 Malaysian Dewan Undangan Negeri election results^[2]
** Fraction of total popular votes in each state rounded to the nearest percent
* Fraction of total seats in each state rounded to the nearest percent
± Change in number of seats from before the election

State / federal territory	Barisan Nasional					Pakatan Harapan					Gagasan Sejahtera					Other / Independent
	Votes	%	Seats	%	±	Votes	%	Seats	%	±	Votes	%	Seats	%	±	Votes	%	Seats	%	±
Johor	582,265	38.8	19	33.9	18	803,148	53.6	36	64.3	20	113,216	7.6	1	1.8	2	721	0	0	0
Kedah	278,694	29.6	3	8.3	17	343,519	36.5	18	50	9	313,171	33.7	15	41.7	8	930	0.1	0	0
Kelantan	308,639	37.6	8	17.8	4	82,243	10.0	0	0	2	426,602	52.0	37	82.2	6	3,064	0.4	0	0
Malacca	156,318	37.8	13	46.4	8	211,153	51.1	15	53.6	9	44,537	10.8	0	0	1	1,148	0.3	0	0
Negeri Sembilan	182,294	38.0	16	44.4	6	258,737	53.9	20	55.6	6	35,913	7.5	0	0		3,059	0.6	0	0
Pahang	275,766	41.8	25	59.5	5	190,711	28.9	9	21.4	1	192,176	29.1	8	19.0	6	1,510	0.2	0	0
Penang	176,723	22.4	2	5.0	8	530,008	67.2	37	92.5	8	77,171	9.8	1	2.5		4,785	0.6	0	0
Perak	395,708	33.3	27	45.0	4	595,219	50.1	29	48.3	5	194,735	16.4	3	5.1	1	2,979	0.3	0	0
Perlis	47,151	39.0	10	66.7	3	42,220	34.9	3	20.0	2	31,335	25.9	2	13.3	1	132	0.1	0	0
Sabah	355,091	42.0	29	48.3	19	398,340	47.2	29	48.3	18	11,241	1.3	0	0.0		79.945	9.5	2	3.3	1
Selangor	450,742	21.9	4	7.1	8	1,303,102	63.4	51	91.1	20	296,250	14.4	1	1.8	12	6,324	0.3	0	0
Terengganu	261,653	42.2	10	31.3	7	45,429	7.3	0	0	1	313,503	50.5	22	67.8	8	0	0	0	0
Total	3,471,044	27.4	168	32.9	107	7,132,462	56.3	247	48.9	93	2,049,850	16.2	90	17.8	13	24,732	0.2	2	0.4	1

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Barisan Nasional		United Malays National Organisation	42,543	35.21	9	–3
			Malaysian Chinese Association	4,608	3.81	1	0
		Total		47,151	39.02	10	–3
	Pakatan Harapan		People's Justice Party	17,935	14.84	3	+2
			Malaysian United Indigenous Party	12,562	10.40	0	0
			National Trust Party	9,103	7.53	0	0
			Democratic Action Party	2,620	2.17	0	0
		Total		42,220	34.94	3	+2
	Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party			31,335	25.93	2	+1
	Independents			132	0.11	0	0
Total				120,838	100.00	15	0
Valid votes				120,838	98.21
Invalid/blank votes				2,198	1.79
Total votes				123,036	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				150,221	81.90
Source: BERNAMA[3][4]

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Pakatan Harapan		Democratic Action Party	515,649	25.08	16	+1
			People's Justice Party	498,927	24.26	21	+7
			National Trust Party	172,937	8.41	8	+8
			Malaysian United Indigenous Party	115,589	5.62	6	+6
		Total		1,303,102	63.37	51	22
	Barisan Nasional		United Malays National Organisation	334,152	16.25	4	–8
			Malaysian Chinese Association	78,781	3.83	0	0
			Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia	20,431	0.99	0	0
			Malaysian Indian Congress	17,378	0.85	0	0
		Total		450,742	21.92	4	–8
	Gagasan Sejahtera		Malaysian Islamic Party	286,227	13.92	1	–14
			Malaysia National Alliance Party	10,023	0.49	0	0
		Total		296,250	14.41	1	–14
	Parti Rakyat Malaysia			2,111	0.10	0	0
	Socialist Party of Malaysia			2,082	0.10	0	0
	People's Alternative Party			187	0.01	0	0
	Independents			1,944	0.09	0	0
Total				2,056,418	100.00	56	0
Valid votes				2,056,418	99.11
Invalid/blank votes				18,473	0.89
Total votes				2,074,891	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				2,415,074	85.91
Source: SPR[17]