Johor election

2022 - 3 - 12

johor state election

Commentary: This Johor state election has been a disaster for ... (CNA)

The pressure will be on Malaysia Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob to capitalise on the landslide win in the Johor state election to complete the UMNO-led ...

Perhaps the biggest twist is this: The biggest individual winner in the Johor election is a person who was not even a candidate. Pejuang, on the other hand, is unabashedly Mahathir’s party and will last as long as he is around. Looking into UMNO’s history offers a possible future for Pejuang and Muhyiddin’s Bersatu: In 1987 after a split in UMNO, Parti Melayu Semangat 46 was established by ex-UMNO members to challenge their old party. Najib Razak, better known as “Bossku” to his supporters, remains BN’s star campaigner and most potent vote-getter. A PH with Anwar as their prime minister candidate, in my view, is doomed to lose. So it won’t be surprising if Ismail Sabri tries to bide his time until the UMNO party elections for a chance to consolidate support for him. Muhyiddin Yassin will also be disappointed by the poor showing of his Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition. But he has lost influence among Malay voters and it is hard to see how Pejuang can mount any sort of credible opposition. One key reason BN might have done so well in Melaka and Johor was the low turnout. Most in BN believe they will achieve resounding success if GE15 is held in the second half of this year. How many seats will PH give to MUDA at GE15? There will be tremendous internal opposition. PH said it will conduct a post-mortem to find out what went wrong.

Umno-led BN wins two-thirds majority in Johor polls (The Straits Times)

Most of the remaining seats were scooped up by opposition coalition Pakatan Harapan. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

He is currently appealing a graft conviction linked to the state fund. Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi credited Najib as the “campaign manager” for the Johor polls despite not having an official party position, and declared the win as a “gift” for the former premier. And Parti Warisan, led by former Sabah chief minister Shafie Apdal, contested six seats. Tan Sri Muhyddin accepted responsibility for the defeat. “I am ready to resign at any time if the party decides that I should go,” he said at a media conference on Saturday night. JOHOR BARU - Malaysia’s longest-ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) won the Johor state election on Saturday (March 12) with a super-majority, posting a stunning comeback that could spur it to press for an early general election.

Malaysia's Grand Old Party Scores Decisive Victory in Pivotal State ... (The Diplomat)

The strong showing for the Barisan Nasional coalition is expected to intensify calls for an early general election.

But Welsh argued that despite BN’s strong showing, the Johor election “was not a complete return to the past,” pointing out that 15 seats were won by close margins. Siti Kasim, writing for Malaysiakini, described the election as “a big thud for the forces of reform” in Malaysia. UMNO prevailed despite the influx of some 750,000 new voters due to a recent constitutional amendment that lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, which some observers initially suggested might benefit reformist parties.

Anwar congratulates BN for Johor election victory, says low voter ... (Mothership.sg)

Turnout for the election was 55 per cent, compared to 83 per cent for the Johor state election in 2018.

Turnout for the election was 55 per cent, compared to 83 per cent for the 2018 state election. The PKR secured a single seat in the election.The PKR secured a single seat in the election. "This decision also turned out to be an important reminder for political parties to regain their strength in the run-up to the next general election."

Johor State Election Takes Malaysia Back To The Future – Analysis (Eurasia Review)

The 55% voter turnout was one of the lowest in Malaysian electoral history. Only 1.39 million of the 2.6 million registered voters turned out. However, this was ...

Anthony Loke has gone on record saying that the DAP will work with anyone to form a stable government. Anwar’s insistence of putting himself above the greater cause of the alliance is now leading to accusations of Anwar being a BN ‘trojan horse’ and/or letting his ego get in front of real party interests. The wisdom of accepting Maszlee Malik into PKR has to be questioned when he lost by 2815 votes to UMNO’s Abdul Mutalip Abdul Rahim. Maszlee’s poor performance in the education portfolio should not have been rewarded with candidacy under the PKR banner in an election. His son, Mukhriz Mahathir will have a tough fight in the adjoining seat of Jerlun to just hold it. The MOU between PH and prime minister Ismail Sabri technically makes PH a pro-government party within the parliamentary system of governance. However, one thing for sure BN’s election strategists were able to out manoeuvre all the other candidates and parties in the election, and cannot be under-estimated in future elections. The young voters, eligible to vote for the first time appeared somewhat apathetic or disenchanted with the political process to come out and vote. Many of the 1.2 million that failed to vote, didn’t leave Singapore or their places of work around the peninsula to come and vote. PKR has only 1 seat, a loss of 6 seats, and Amanah 1 seat, with a loss of 5 seats. The DAP now has only has 10 seats, a loss of 4. Now the nation has to live with this, and the many consequences arising from this result. The component parties of the BN won 40 seats (UMNO 33, MCA 4, MIC 3) of the 56 seat state assembly.

Three things we learned from: 2022 Johor state election (Malay Mail)

JOHOR BARU, March 13 — Barisan Nasional (BN) made a triumphant comeback in Johor yesterday by bagging 40 out of 56 seats in the state legislative assembly, ...

PKR held onto Bukit Batu by a very narrow 137 votes. On the other hand, the Perikatan Nasional (PN) candidate, who came in third, grabbed more than 5,000 votes. This was proven by the fact that BN only saw an increase of about 3 per cent in its popular vote since 2018, but at the same time, managed to gain 21 more seats yesterday. PH, PN and Pejuang brought up his multiple graft convictions in almost all of their ceramah — but it would seem the voters didn’t care as BN seats retained their core supporters, who more importantly, went out to cast their votes for the coalition. While the rough estimates indicated that PH’s popular vote in Johor went down from 56 per cent in 2018 to 29 per cent in 2022, BN’s rose from 40 per cent to about 43 per cent this time around. “In my own area, the difference between my votes and that of the BN candidate was only about 1 per cent,” he said of his loss in the Parit Yaani seat by only 294 votes.