The coalition was on track to repeat its 2016 performance when it strolled to a supermajority victory by winning 72 of the 82 seats available.Įarlier, the coalition’s Datuk Seri Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah also walked home to an easy victory in Asajaya. Gabungan Parti Sarawak has provisionally won 40 seats in the Sarawak state election, just two short of a simple majority in the state assembly. Gabungan Parti Sarawak has unofficially won the Sarawak state election, securing 42 seats for a simple majority to form the next state government. The Pakatan Harapan parties of PKR, DAP, and Amanah have yet to get on the scoreboard. PSB has won its second and third seats of the night, adding Bawang Assan and Engkilili to Ba'kelalan that it won earlier.Īs of writing, PSB was the only party to have secured any seats in the state election that GPS has already won, based on provisional results. Pujut was one of the seven seats that DAP was able to win in 2016.Įarlier, DAP’s Dr Kelvin Yii also failed to unseat SUPP’s Dr Sim Kui Hian in Batu Kawah, allowing the latter to easily retain the seat for GPS. Gabungan Parti Sarawak has denied DAP a key victory in Pujut, which previously slipped from the latter’s grasp when its lawmaker was disqualified due to a citizenship controversy. Gabungan Parti Sarawak has won 55 seats of the 82 available to give the coalition supermajority control of the state assembly, based on preliminary results. The result meant the Pakatan Harapan party became only the second tonight to deny the Gabungan Parti Sarawak that has already secured two-third’s control of the state assembly.Įarlier, the Election Commission also announced GPS as the winner of the state election, endorsing the coalition’s victories in 45 of the 82 available seats. DAP’s Chong Chieng Jen has secured his party’s first seat in the 12th Sarawak state election by winning in Padungan. Unofficially, GPS has already secured a supermajority in the state assembly but this must still be confirmed by the EC. “Until 8.45pm, GPS has won 45 seats, thus securing more than 50 per cent majority to win the Sarawak state election,” he said in a press conference at the Sarawak EC office today. The Election Commission is meeting on November 24 to decide the date for the Sarawak polls.The Election Commission (EC) announced Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) as the official winners tonight of the 12th Sarawak state election.ĮC chairman Datuk Abdul Ghani Salleh said GPS officially won enough seats as of 8.45pm to form the next state government. The assembly was dissolved on November 3, and an election must be held within 60 days. The four component parties now under the ruling Gabungan Parti Sarawak - Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu, Parti Rakyat Sarawak, Sarawak United People’s Party and Progressive Democratic Party - swept 72 seats in the last state election before they withdrew from the Barisan Nasional coalition following the 2018 general election. The Sarawak state legislative assembly has 82 seats in total, the largest in the country. “We are more known in the rural areas than the DAP,” he said, adding that the DAP is known in the urban and semi-urban constituencies. Jabeng said most of the seats allocated to state PKR are in the rural areas, especially the Dayak seats. Murum, Mulu and Batu Kitang, which were all won by the then state Barisan Nasional. In the last state election, PKR and DAP clashed in Simanggang, Mambong, Ngemah, He said PKR, DAP and Amanah reached the agreement on the Sarawak seats some time ago, thereby avoiding a recurrence of the clashes that happened in Election 2016. He said the state PKR has almost finalised its list of candidates for the state election, adding that only the candidates for two seats have not been named. He added Padan will automatically be sacked from the party if she contests as an independent in Ba’Kelalan. “If you are a winger, you can’t play the role of a goalkeeper at the same time,” he said, adding that each player has a different role to play. Using a football team as an analogy, Jabeng said each player is expected to follow the instructions from the captain. Jabeng also said he has not seen any resignation letter from Sarawak PKR Women chief Agnes Padan who was said to have quit the party in protest over its choice of candidate to contest in Ba’Kelalan. Jabeng said Cherishe’s father and former Padungan assemblyman Dominique Ng Kim Ho will not contest this time either. He added that Sarawak PKR information chief Abun Sui Anyit will contest in Murum and the state PKR Women secretary Cherishe Ng will stand in Batu Lintang, which was won by See Chee How on the party’s ticket in the 2016 state election. Jabeng said he will run in Kakus while acting Sarawak PKR chairman Abang Zulkifli Abang Engkeh will stand in Beting Maro.
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