2018 Sabah state election

The 14th General Election witnessed 29 governmental seats (later with addition of 10 members from non-governmental seats (6 from UPKO and 4 from UMNO) that decided to support the creation of new state government) and 31 non-governmental seats (later became 21 seats after 10 of them decided to support new government) filled the Sabah State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 11 safe seat and 4 fairly safe seat, while the non-government side has 2 safe seats and 5 fairly safe seats.

The following political parties contested in this election. The following is a summary of results of this election.

 Summary of the 2018 Sabah state election results[1]

Party				Vote		Seats
				Votes	%	Won	%	+/–
	Sabah Heritage Party		WARISAN	271,246	31.30	21	35.00	21
	Pakatan Harapan		PH	126,817	14.63	8	13.33	3
		People's Justice Party[lower-alpha 1]	PKR	47,723	5.51	2	3.33	5
		Democratic Action Party[lower-alpha 2]	DAP	78,901	9.10	6	10.00	2
		National Trust Party[lower-alpha 3]	AMANAH	193	0.02	0	0
	Barisan Nasional[lower-alpha 4]		BN	355,091	40.97	29	48.33	19
		United Malays National Organisation	UMNO	208,600	24.07	17	28.33	14
		Malaysian Chinese Association	MCA	14,970	1.73	0	0	2
		United Sabah Party	PBS	70,998	8.19	6	10.00	1
		United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation	UPKO	33,395	3.85	6	11.67	2
		United Sabah People's Party	PBRS	8,042	0.93	1	1.67
		Malaysian People's Movement Party	Gerakan	4,002	0.46	0	0	2
		Liberal Democratic Party	LDP	15,084	1.74	0	0	3
	United Sabah Alliance		USA	63,978	7.38	2	3.33	2
		Homeland Solidarity Party	STAR (Sabah)	39,803	4.59	2	3.33	1
		Sabah People's Hope Party	PHRS	17,713	2.04	0	0
		Sabah Progressive Party	SAPP	4,971	0.57	0	0
		Sabah People's Unity Party	PPRS	1,491	0.17	0	0
	Gagasan Sejahtera		GS	11,241	1.30	0	0
		Malaysian Islamic Party	PAS	11,241	1.30	0	0
	Love Sabah Party		PCS	9.311	1.07	0	0
	Sabah Native Co-operation Party		Anak Negeri	3,059	0.35	0	0
	Sabah Nationality Party		PKS	2,018	0.23	0	0
	United Sabah National Organisation (New)		USNO	147	0.02	0	0
	State Reform Party (Sarawak)		STAR (Sarawak)	109	0.01	0	0
	Independents		IND	1,079	0.12	0	0
Valid votes				844,356
Invalid/blank votes				22,369
Total votes (voter turnout: 77.53%)				866,725	100.00	60	100.00	TBA
Did not vote				251,152
Registered voters[lower-alpha 5]				1,117,877
	Ordinary voters[lower-alpha 5]			0
	Early voters[lower-alpha 5]			0
	Postal voters[lower-alpha 5]			0
Source: Election Commission of Malaysia (SPR)[2]

In the 2018 general election, WARISAN together with the coalition of Pakatan Harapan (PH) are tied up with 29-29 seats with the Barisan Nasional in the election.[3] Jeffrey Kitingan with his party of Homeland Solidarity Party (STAR) under the United Sabah Alliance (USA) which are not aligned from either the two sides, has won two seats in the election and subsequently emerged as the decision maker for the formation of a state government from the two sides.[4] Kitingan then decide to team up with the BN to form coalition state government with him appointed as a Deputy Chief Minister while Musa Aman from BN to become the Chief Minister for another 5 years under the new coalition government.[5] However, the situation changed when six seats assemblymen from the BN allied parties of United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (UPKO) and United Sabah People's Party (PBRS) switched their allegiance to WARISAN, giving Shafie an advantage with 35 seats which is sufficient to establish a coalition state government.[6] Earlier, Musa Aman had initially been sworn in as Chief Minister following the help of two seats from STAR. This situation has left Sabah with two ruling Chief Ministers, the second time in its history since the dispute between PBS and USNO in 1980s.

The result of these events sparks a constitutional crisis in Sabah, and the need to review and change the current constitution so as to curb the "allegiance switching" of assemblymen, after the swearing-in ceremony of the chief minister.[7] Another four seats assemblymen from BN allied parties of UMNO and UPKO switching their allegiance to WARISAN on 13 May 2018.[8][9] The Yang di-Pertua Negeri (TYT) Juhar Mahiruddin also had requested for Musa to step down,[10][11] despite Musa still stressing that he still the rightful Chief Minister.[12] Musa was then issued a letter from the TYT that he is no longer the Chief Minister effective from 12 May 2018 that was delivered into his residence on 14 May 2018.[13][14]