Malaysian general election, 2018

← 2013

On or before 24 August 2018

15th →

All 222 seats to the Dewan Rakyat
112 seats needed for a majority


Leader	Najib Razak	Mahathir Mohamad	Abdul Hadi Awang
Party	Barisan Nasional	Pakatan Harapan	Gagasan Sejahtera
Leader since	3 April 2009	7 January 2018	23 July 2002
Leader's seat	Pekan	Jerlun, Kubang Pasu or Langkawi (within these 3 seats)	Marang
Last election	133 seats, 47.38%	68 seats, 37.1% (Pakatan Rakyat)	24 seats, 14.78% (Pakatan Rakyat)
Current seats	132	71	14
Seats needed		41	98


Leader	Mohd Nasir Hashim	Rohana Ariffin
Party	Socialist Party of Malaysia	Malaysian People's Party (Will be contesting only in Penang Island)
Leader since	2015	2016
Leader's seat	none	none
Last election	1 seat,	0 seat,
Current seats	1	0
Seats needed	111	112

Incumbent Prime Minister

Najib Razak
Barisan Nasional

The 14th Malaysian general election (GE14/PRU14) will elect members of the 14th Parliament of Malaysia on or before 24 August 2018. The 13th Parliament of Malaysia will automatically dissolve on 24 June 2018. The first meeting of the first session of the 13th Parliament of Malaysia was held on 24 June 2013.

The Constitution of Malaysia requires that a general election to be held in the fifth calendar year unless it is dissolved earlier by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong due to a motion of no-confidence or at the request of the Prime Minister.

The 222 members of the Dewan Rakyat are elected from single-member constituencies using the first-past-the-post voting system. Malaysia does not practice compulsory voting and automatic voter registration. The voting age is 21 although the age of majority in the country is 18. The redistricting of electoral boundaries for the entire country are expected to be completed before the next general election. Elections are conducted by the Election Commission, which is under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister's Department.

Even before the election start, there had been many large controversial like gerrymandering. The body regulating elections in Malaysia isn’t well-known for its transparency. The Electoral Integrity Project, a US-based independent academic project that basically studies… electoral integrity, had determined that the EC in Malaysia deserves a low, low score of 35 for its PEI 5.0

While any state may dissolve its assembly independently of the Federal Parliament, the traditional practice is for most state assemblies to be dissolved at the same time as Parliament. In accordance with Malaysian law, the parliament as well as the legislative assemblies of each state (Dewan Undangan Negeri) would automatically dissolve on the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days of the dissolution, unless dissolved prior to that date by their respective Heads of State on the advice of their Heads of Government.

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