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NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND EVENTS 14th General Election

The 14th General Election (GE-14) on 9 May 2018 saw a stiff competition
between the country’s three major political parties namely Barisan Nasional
(BN) who has ruled the country since the first election in 1959, PAS and Pakatan
Harapan. It concluded with the people choosing the coalition from the opposition
parties, thus ending 60 years of BN rule.
The four parties that form the Pakatan Harapan coalition secured a stunning
victory with PKR winning 49 parliamentary seats out of 71 contested (69%);
DAP: 42 of 47 seats (89%); PPBM: 12 of 52 seats (23%); PAN: 11 of 34 seats
(32%);and Warisan (Sabah): 8 of 17 seats. BN won 79 seats of 222 seats
contested (36%) while PAS won 18 of 157 seats (11%).
Pakatan Harapan also won most of the states by securing 257 of 530 seats,
except for seats in Kelantan and Terengganu which were won by PAS, and
Pahang and Sarawak which remained to be under BN whose popular vote count
was down from 46.7 percent (GE-13) to 33.9 percent. Pakatan Harapan on the
other hand retained its popular vote of 50.1%.

“Let’s vote” posters issued by Department of Information Malaysia to
be displayed at public places to encourage people to vote

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