2018 Perlis state election

2018 Perlis state election
	9 May 2018
	9 May 2018
All 15 seats in the Perlis State Legislative Assembly; 8 seats needed for a majority
Registered	150,221
Turnout	123,036 (85.91%)
Menteri Besar before election; Azlan Man; BN	Elected Menteri Besar ; Azlan Man; BN

The 14th Perlis State election was held on 9 May 2018. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.

The Perlis State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 28 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 28 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (King of Perlis) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Perlis).

The incumbent party Barisan Nasional won simple majority of 10 seats and was able to form a government. The opposition Pakatan Harapan won 3 seats while Gagasan Sejahtera won 2 seats.[1]

Background

Electoral system

Each state constituencies of Perlis will elect one member to the Perlis State Legislative Assembly using the first-past-the-post voting system. If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the State Government, with its leader as Menteri Besar. If the election results in no single party having a majority, there is a hung assembly, of which will be dissolved under the royal prerogative of the Raja.

The redistricting of electoral boundaries for the entire country had been presented to and passed by the Dewan Rakyat, and subsequently gazetted on 29 March 2018 after obtaining the royal consent of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ahead of the 14th general election.[2] Elections are conducted by the Election Commission of Malaysia (EC), which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department.

Voting Eligibility

To vote in the state election, one had to be:[3]

registered in the electoral roll as an elector in the constituency in which he resides on;
aged 21 or over on the registration date;
a resident of the constituency, or if not so, an absentee voter;
not disqualified under any law relating to offences committed in connection with elections.

Contenders

Barisan Nasional (BN) contested in all 15 seats in Perlis State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) contested in 13 seats and Malaysian Chinese Association(MCA) contested in 2 seats.

Pakatan Harapan contested in all 15 seats in Perlis.

Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) also contested in all 15 seats.[4]

Political parties

Coalition
Incumbent	Opposition
Barisan Nasional (BN)	Gagasan Sejahtera (GS)	Pakatan Harapan (PH)
United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA)	Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)	Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) People's Justice Party (PKR) National Trust Party (Amanah) Democratic Action Party (DAP)

The contested seats

No.	State constituency	Incumbent State Assemblyman	Political parties
			Barisan Nasional[5]		Gagasan Sejahtera[6]		Pakatan Harapan[7][8][9]		Other parties/Ind
			Candidate Name	Party	Candidate Name	Party	Candidate Name	Party	Candidate Name	Party
N01	Titi Tinggi	Khaw Hock Kong (BN)	Teh Chai Aan	MCA	Kamis Yub	PAS	Teh Seng Chuan	DAP	Yaacob Man	IND
N02	Beseri	Mat Rawi Kassim (BN)	Ruzaini Rais	UMNO	Azamhari Mohamood		Wan Kharizal Wan Khazim	Amanah	N/A	N/A
N03	Chuping	Asmaiza Ahmad (BN)	Asmaiza Ahmad		Mohd. Ali Puteh		Poziyah Hamzah	PKR	N/A	N/A
N04	Mata Ayer	Khairi Hasan (BN)	Siti Berenee Yahaya		Mohammad Yahya		Azhar Omar	Bersatu	N/A	N/A
N05	Santan	Sabry Ahmad (BN)	Azizan Sulaiman		Baharuddin Ahmad		Che Mazlina Che Yob	Amanah	N/A	N/A
N06	Bintong	Rela Ahmad (BN)	Azlan Man		Abd. Jamil Kamis		Mokhtar Che Kassim	Amanah	N/A	N/A
N07	Sena	Abdul Jamil Saad (BN)	Azihani Ali		Fakhrul Anwar Ismail		Asrul Nizan Abd Jalil	PKR	N/A	N/A
N08	Indera Kayangan	Chan Ming Kai (PH)	Chuah Tian Hee	MCA	Wan Hassan Wan Ismail		Gan Ay Ling		N/A	N/A
N09	Kuala Perlis	Mat Hassan (BN)	Azam Rashid	UMNO	Mohamad Fuat Abu Bakar		Nor Azam Karap		N/A	N/A
N10	Kayang	Ahmad Bakri Ali (BN)	Hamizan Hassan		Md Radzi Hassan		Abdul Hannaan Khairy	Bersatu	N/A	N/A
N11	Pauh	Azlan Man (BN)	Rozieana Ahmad		Idris Yaacob		Ameir Hassan		N/A	N/A
N12	Tambun Tulang	Ismail Kassim (BN)	Ismail Kassim		Abu Bakar Ali		Maton Din		N/A	N/A
N13	Guar Sanji	Jafperi Othman (BN)	Afifi Osman		Mohd Ridzuan Hashim		Baridah Che Nayan		N/A	N/A
N14	Simpang Empat	Nurulhisham Yaakob (BN)	Nurulhisham Yaakob		Rus'sele Eizan		Wan Noralhakim Shaghir Saad	PKR	N/A	N/A
N15	Sanglang	Mohd Shukri Ramli (GS)	Zaidi Saidin		Mohd. Shukri Ramli		Zolkharnain Abidin	Amanah	N/A	N/A

Election pendulum

The 14th General Election witnessed 10 governmental seats and 5 non-governmental seats filled the Perlis State Legislative Assembly. However, none of the government side has safe and fairly safe seat, while the non-government side has just 1 fairly safe seat.

2018 Perlis state election

GOVERNMENT SEATS
Marginal
Titi Tinggi	Teh Chai Aan	MCA	35.39
Simpang Empat	Nurulhisham Yaakob	UMNO	36.46
Pauh	Rozieana Ahmad	UMNO	39.29
Bintong	Azlan Man	UMNO	40.59
Kayang	Hamizan Hassan	UMNO	41.09
Beseri	Ruzaini Rais	UMNO	41.94
Santan	Azizan Sulaiman	UMNO	42.18
Mata Ayer	Siti Berenee Yahaya	UMNO	43.54
Tambun Tulang	Ismail Kassim	UMNO	45.82
Chuping	Asmaiza Ahmad	UMNO	46.42

NON-GOVERNMENT SEATS
Marginal
Sanglang	Mohd. Shukri Ramli	PAS	40.82
Sena	Asrul Nizan Abd. Jalil	PKR	42.07
Guar Sanji	Mohd. Ridzuan Hashim	PAS	42.19
Kuala Perlis	Nor Azam Karap	PKR	51.13
Fairly safe
Indera Kayangan	Gan Ay Ling	PKR	57.71

Results

The result of the election was announced after 5pm on 9 May 2018. Barisan Nasional won 10 out of 15 seats and was entitled to form a government in Perlis.

↓
BN	PH	GS
10	3	2

Summary of the 9 May 2018 Perlis State Legislative Assembly election results
Party				Candidates	Vote		Seats
Party				Candidates	Votes	%	Won	%	+/–
	National Front[lower-alpha 1]		BN	15	47,151	39.02	10	66.67	3
		United Malays National Organisation	UMNO	13	42,543	35.21	9	60.00	3
		Malaysian Chinese Association	MCA	2	4,608	3.81	1	6.67
	Pakatan Harapan[lower-alpha 2]		PH	15	42,220	34.94	3	20.00	2
		People's Justice Party	PKR	5	17,935	14.84	3	20.00	2
		Democratic Action Party	DAP	1	2,620	2.17	0	0.00
		Malaysian United Indigenous Party	PPBM	5	12,562	10.40	0	0.00
		National Trust Party	AMANAH	4	9,103	7.53	0	0.00
	Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party		PAS	15	31,335	25.93	2	13.33	1
	Independents		IND	1	132	0.11	0	0.00
Valid votes					120,838
Invalid/blank votes					2198
Total votes (voter turnout: 81.90%)					123,036	100.00	15	100.00	0
Did not vote					27,185
Registered voters					150,221
Voting age population (aged 21 years and above)
Perlis's population
Source:[10][11]

Contested using dacing election symbol on the ballot papers.
Contested using People's Justice Party election symbol on the ballot papers.

Seats that changed allegiance

No.	Seat		Current Party (2018)
N07	Sena	Barisan Nasional (UMNO)	Pakatan Harapan (PKR)
N09	Kuala Perlis	Barisan Nasional (UMNO)	Pakatan Harapan (PKR)
N13	Guar Sanji	Barisan Nasional (UMNO)	Gagasan Sejahtera (PAS)

References

"Keputusan Dewan Undangan Negeri Perlis". pru14.spr.gov.my. Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
"Redelineation report gazetted with king's consent". Free Malaysia Today. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
"Federal Constitution of Malaysia" (PDF). jac.gov.my. Judicial Appointments Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
PAS Perlis sedia tanding 15 Dun
"Official: BN Perlis tampil 10 muka baharu". Utusan Online. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
Perlis PAS’ candidates list
AMANAH Perlis umum calon tanding PRU14
"Official: PPBM Perlis umum calon hari ini". Free Malaysia Today. 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
"Official: Wan Azizah moves to Pandan, Nurul goes to Permatang Pauh". Malaysiakini. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
"GE14 Results". pru14result.bernama.com. BERNAMA. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
"Keputusan Terkini Dewan Undangan Negeri Perlis". pru14.spr.gov.my. Election Commission of Malaysia. Retrieved 24 May 2018.

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[BN-10] Contested using dacing election symbol on the ballot papers.

[PH-11] Contested using People's Justice Party election symbol on the ballot papers.

[keputusan-1] "Keputusan Dewan Undangan Negeri Perlis". pru14.spr.gov.my. Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 9 May 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

[2] "Redelineation report gazetted with king's consent". Free Malaysia Today. 29 March 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.

[3] "Federal Constitution of Malaysia" (PDF). jac.gov.my. Judicial Appointments Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2018.

[4] PAS Perlis sedia tanding 15 Dun

[5] "Official: BN Perlis tampil 10 muka baharu". Utusan Online. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2018-04-26.

[6] Perlis PAS’ candidates list

[7] AMANAH Perlis umum calon tanding PRU14

[8] "Official: PPBM Perlis umum calon hari ini". Free Malaysia Today. 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2018-04-16.

[9] "Official: Wan Azizah moves to Pandan, Nurul goes to Permatang Pauh". Malaysiakini. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2018-04-24.

[12] "GE14 Results". pru14result.bernama.com. BERNAMA. Retrieved 24 May 2018.

[13] "Keputusan Terkini Dewan Undangan Negeri Perlis". pru14.spr.gov.my. Election Commission of Malaysia. Retrieved 24 May 2018.

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