2013 Kedah state election

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2013 Kedah state election
Flag of Kedah.svg
  2008 5 May 2013 2018  

All 36 seats in the Kedah State Legislative Assembly
19 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority partyThird party
  Mukhriz Mahathir.jpg 3x4.svg Speaker of Parliament Dato' Johari Abdul 10-2-2023 (cropped).jpg
Leader Mukhriz Mahathir Azizan Abdul Razak Johari Abdul
Party UMNO PAS PKR
Alliance Barisan Nasional Pakatan Rakyat Pakatan Rakyat
Leader since200920032007
Leader's seat Ayer Hitam Sungai Limau Not contesting
Last election14164
Seats won2194
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 7Decrease2.svg 7Steady2.svg
Popular vote449,278 [lower-alpha 1] 289,174127,702
Percentage50.49%32.50%14.35%

 Fourth party
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Leader Lee Guan Aik
Party DAP
Alliance Pakatan Rakyat
Leader since2010
Leader's seatNot contesting
Last election1
Seats won2
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1
Popular vote17,745
Percentage1.99%

Menteri Besar before election

Azizan Abdul Razak
Pakatan Rakyat (PAS)

Elected Menteri Besar

Mukhriz Mahathir
Barisan Nasional (UMNO)

The 13th Kedah state election was held on 5 May 2013. Polling took place in 36 constituencies throughout the Malaysian state of Kedah, with each electing a State Assemblyman to the Kedah State Legislative Assembly. The election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission. The state election was held concurrently with the 2013 Malaysian general election.

Contents

Barisan Nasional (BN), having lost the state for the first time in their history in the 2008 election, regains the state government after winning 21 of the 36 seats. [1] Pakatan Rakyat (PR), the informal coalition of Democratic Action Party (DAP), Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), won the remaining 15 seats to become the main opposition.

This election is the only time the DAP-PAS-PKR coalition is referred as Pakatan Rakyat during the Kedah state election campaign (although each party is contesting using their own name and logo), and also the final Kedah state election which the three parties works as a coalition; PR splits in 2015 due to disagreements between DAP and PAS.

Background

Political parties

Electoral divisions

Issues

Campaign

Social media

Rallies

Results

Party or allianceVotes%Seats+/–
Barisan Nasional United Malays National Organisation 449,27850.4919+7
Malaysian Chinese Association 2+1
Malaysian Indian Congress 00
Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia 0–1
Total21+7
Pakatan Rakyat Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party 289,17432.509–7
People's Justice Party 127,70214.3540
Democratic Action Party 17,7451.992+1
Total434,62148.8415-6
Pan-Malaysian Islamic Front 8980.1000
Malaysian United People's Party 1920.0200
People's Welfare Party 3570.0400
Independents4,4850.500–1
Total889,831100.00360

Aftermath

Mukhriz Mahathir, the UMNO and BN state chairman and MLA for Ayer Hitam, were sworn in as the new Kedah Menteri Besar on the next day, in front of the Sultan of Kedah. [2] But on 3 February 2016, Mukhriz resigned as Menteri Besar after facing no-confidence vote in the state assembly, and were replaced by Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah. [3] [4] [5] Mukhriz later was sacked from UMNO on 24 June the same year, and together with his father Mahathir Mohamad and other sacked UMNO members formed Malaysian United Indigenous Party (PPBM/BERSATU) a month later.

The previous Menteri Besar and MLA for Sungai Limau, Azizan Abdul Razak died on 26 September 2013 due to internal organ failure and bacterial infection. [6] His death triggered the 2013 Sungai Limau by-election, which were won by PAS candidate to retain the seat.

In 2015, the PR coalition was disbanded, due to disagreements between PAS and DAP over the former's insistence to implement the Islamic penal code, known as hudud , in the State of Kelantan. [7] Also in 2015, a group of progressives in PAS led by Mohamad Sabu exits the party after losing in the party election, later forming National Trust Party (Amanah). Amanah joined forces with DAP and PKR in forming a successor coalition to PR, later known as Pakatan Harapan (PH) after PPBM/BERSATU joined the coalition in 2017. [8] As a result of the split, PH were reduced to 6 seats in the state assembly, but later gained 3 seats after defection of 2 PAS MLA (Phahrolrazi Zawawi to Amanah, Amiruddin Hamzah to PPBM/BERSATU) and 1 UMNO MLA (Mukhriz to PPBM/BERSATU).

Notes

  1. All the figures of votes and seats are a combined result of all the component parties in BN.

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Further reading

Muhamad Takiyuddin Ismail & Sity Daud (2016). Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13: Kesinambungan Politik Baharu, Kekentalan Politik Lama, UUM Press. ISBN 978-967-0876-42-9