The 2013 Sabah state election was held on Sunday, 5 May 2013 concurrently with the 13th Malaysian general election. 60 state seats were contested to elect state legislature in the Malaysian state of

Sabah Sabah () is a state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indonesia to the south. The Federal Territory o ...

. This was the 12th state election in Sabah. The state legislative assembly was dissolved on 3 April 2013 following the announcement by Najib Razak to dissolve the federal Parliament earlier on the same day. Sabahans will also elect 25 representatives to the federal legislature which will be covered as part of the general election. The 2008 election was won by the

Barisan Nasional The National Front ( ms, Barisan Nasional; abbrev: BN) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties. It is also the third largest political coalition with 30 ...

(BN) coalition winning 59 out 60 seats. After the 2008 election, the

Sabah Progressive Party The Sabah Progressive Party ( ms, Parti Maju Sabah, abbreviated SAPP) is a multiracial political party based in Sabah, Malaysia. It was registered on 21 January 1994 by dissidents led by former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Yong Teck Lee from Uni ...

(SAPP) withdrew from the BN coalition resulting in 2 state seats to move out of BN. As a result, the composition of parties in the state legislature prior to dissolution was BN with 57, SAPP with 2 and DAP with 1 seat. The final results shown that BN will keep the assembly with 48 seats, a decrease of 11 seats. The newly formed

Pakatan Rakyat The People's Alliance ( ms, Pakatan Rakyat; abbrev: PR) was an informal Malaysian political coalition and successor to Barisan Alternatif (BA). The political coalition was formed by the People's Justice Party (PKR), Democratic Action Party (DA ...

won 11 seats, comparing to 1 in the last assembly. Sabah-based State Reform Party also won 1 seat via its leader

Jeffrey Kitingan Jeffrey Gapari Kitingan (born 22 October 1948) is Malaysian politician. He served as the Deputy Chief Minister II of Sabah from 2020 to 2023 and State Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries since 2020 (also served in the same position for a ...

, while another Sabah-based party SAPP was wiped out from the assembly.

Contenders

BN was defending their previous victory and contested in all 60 state seats. out of the 60 seats, UMNO contested in 32, PBS in 13, UPKO in 6, LDP in 4 MCA in 2, GERAKAN in 2 and PBRS in 1. BN was challenged by the newly formed

coalition consisting of PKR (43), DAP (8) and PAS (9). Other than Pakatan Rakyat, SAPP (41), STAR (47), BERSAMA (3) and KITA (1) also contested in the elections.

Parliamentary election results

There were 25 parliamentary or federal seats contested in Sabah. Barisan Nasional won 22 seats while DAP won 2 seats (Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan) and PKR won 1 (Penampang).

Results

Summary

Results for Barisan Nasional component parties

Result details

References

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