1999 Malaysian general election

1999 Malaysian general election

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All 193 seats in the Dewan Rakyat 97 seats needed for a majority
Registered	9,546,303
Turnout	71.19%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Mahathir Mohamad Fadzil Noor Joseph Pairin Kitingan Party UMNO PAS PBS Alliance BN BA – Last election 162 seats, 65.16% 16 seats 3.33%, 8 seats Seats won 148 42 3 Seat change 14 26 5 Popular vote 3,763,003 2,681,460 143,338 Percentage 56.52% 40.28% 2.15% Swing 8.64pp 10.75pp 1.18pp
Prime Minister before election Mahathir Mohamad BN Prime Minister-designate Mahathir Mohamad BN

General elections were held in Malaysia on Monday, 29 November 1999. Voting took place in all 193 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 394 state constituencies in 11 out of 13 states of Malaysia (except Sabah and Sarawak) on the same day. They were the last elections for Mahathir Mohamad as Prime Minister and Chairman of Barisan Nasional, until 2018. They were also the first elections held in a single day nationwide.

The opposition won a total of 113 state assembly seats, 98 of which went to the PAS, 11 to the DAP and 4 for Keadilan.^[1] In the states of Kelantan and Terengganu, the PAS won by a huge margin–41-2 against Barisan Nasional out of a total of 43 seats and 28-4 out of a total of 32 seats respectively, hence allowing them to form the state governments in these states. In addition, PAS also captured one-third of the state seats in Kedah, with the remaining two-thirds going to Barisan Nasional (UMNO won 16 seats, MCA 2 seats in Kedah).

The election results were seen as a great gain for PAS, who previously had no state seats in Kedah and capturing only one seat in Terengganu in the 1995 General Elections. Observers attributed this to the neglect by the Federal Administration in the states of Terengganu and Kelantan due to administration by different parties.^[2]

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Barisan Nasional		United Malays National Organisation	1,985,943	29.83	72	–17
			Malaysian Chinese Association	960,770	14.43	29	–1
			Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia	187,323	2.81	6	–1
			Malaysian Indian Congress	171,998	2.58	7	0
			Sarawak United Peoples' Party	129,356	1.94	7	0
			Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu	111,389	1.67	10	0
			Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak	51,803	0.78	6	+1
			UKPO	46,913	0.70	3	New
			Sabah Progressive Party	46,756	0.70	2	0
			Sarawak National Party	45,419	0.68	4	+1
			Liberal Democratic Party	12,800	0.19	1	0
			Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah	12,533	0.19	0	0
			Independent			1	0
		Total		3,763,003	56.52	148	–14
	Barisan Alternatif		Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party	996,466	14.97	27	+20
			Democratic Action Party	848,040	12.74	10	+1
			National Justice Party	767,964	11.54	5	New
			Parti Rakyat Malaysia	68,990	1.04	0	0
		Total		2,681,460	40.28	42	+26
	United Sabah Party			143,338	2.15	3	–5
	State Reform Party			23,354	0.35	0	New
	Malaysian Democratic Party			7,601	0.11	0	New
	Pan-Malaysian Islamic Front			409	0.01	0	New
	Malaysian People's Justice Front			274	0.00	0	0
	Independents			38,054	0.57	0	0
Total				6,657,493	100.00	193	+1
Valid votes				6,657,493	97.97
Invalid/blank votes				138,256	2.03
Total votes				6,795,749	100.00
Registered voters/turnout				9,546,303	71.19
Source: Election Passport

• 1999 Malaysian state elections

• Chin, James (2000). "A New Balance: The Chinese Vote in the 1999 Malaysian General Election". South East Asia Research. 8 (3): 281–299. doi:10.5367/000000000101297299. S2CID 156133362.
• "Malaysia unlikely to go fundamentalist: Lee Kuan Yew". (Dec. 13, 1999). Agence France Presse.

• South Asia Analysis Group synopsis of the 1999 election results.
• Trends in Malaysia: Election Assessment (PDF) a 62 pages collection of papers from Institute of Southeast Asian Studies after the 1999 election.