The Numbers on Malaysia’s 14th General Election

By Kenneth Cheng, Yeong Pey Jung

June 2018 STATISTICS
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The 14th General Election (GE14), held on May 9, saw the first-ever change in ruling government. Compared with the last general election, the outgoing ruling government, BN, suffered a historic loss of 55 parliamentary seats, gaining only 79 seats in GE14.The Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition and its ally, Parti Warisan (Warisan), on the other hand, won 121 parliamentary seats, with a slim majority to form a government. PAS, being separated from the PH coalition in GE14, consolidated its winning power...

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Kenneth Cheng

Yeong Pey Jung

is a senior analyst with the Socioeconomics and Statistics Programme at Penang Institute. She is a reading enthusiast and is surgically attached to her Kindle.

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