Malaysian general election, 2004

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21 March 2004

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All 219 seats to the Dewan Rakyat
110 seats needed for a majority

Registered

9,756,097

Turnout

6,916,138 (73.9%)

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi	Abdul Hadi Awang	Lim Kit Siang
Party	Barisan Nasional	Barisan Alternatif	DAP
Leader since	31 October 2003 (2003-10-31)	2003	21 September 2001 (2001-09-21)
Leader's seat	Kepala Batas	Marang (Lost Seats)	Ipoh Timor
Last election	148 seats, 56.5%	42 seats, 40.2%	10 seats, 12.5%
Seats won	198	8	12
Seat change	50	34	2
Popular vote	4,420,452	1,668,998	687,340
Percentage	63.9%	24.1%	9.9%
Swing	7.4%	16.1%	2.6%

Prime Minister before election

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Barisan Nasional

Prime Minister-designate

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Barisan Nasional

A general election was held on Sunday, 21 March 2004 for members of the 11th Parliament of Malaysia. Voting took place in all 219 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 505 state constituencies in 12 out of 13 states of Malaysia (except Sarawak) on the same day.

The National Front gained a popular vote of 63.9%, but would have gained a higher vote had all seats been contested. Reports in the Malaysian media on show of March 23rd the Front winning 198 parliamentary seats to the combined opposition parties' 20 seats, with one independent. This is the largest majority that National Front has won since the 1978 elections.

The dominant party in the National Front, the Prime Minister's United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), won 109 seats, a gain of 32. UMNO's allies also gained seats. The Malaysian Chinese Association won 31 seats, a gain of two, and the Malaysian Indian Congress won nine seats, a gain of two.

Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) managed to retain only seven of its 27 seats. PAS ran on a platform promising an Islamic nation. The PAS opposition leader, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, lost his parliamentary seat.

Another opposition party, the People's Justice Party (Parti Keadilan Nasional) lost four of its five seats. After five recounts the party's leader, Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (the wife of imprisoned former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim), retained her seat with a majority of 590 votes.

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