1985 Sabah state election

State election in Sabah, Malaysia Sabah 1982 legislative 1981 Sabah state election 1981 Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (1978–82)#Sabah 1986 Sabah state election 1986 Malaysian State Assembly Representatives (1982–86)#Sabah All 48 seats in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly 25 20–21 April 1985 130x130px Penampang_Sabah_Joseph-Pairin-Kitingan-02.jpg Joseph Pairin Kitingan 1984 Tambunan United Sabah Party ADD8E6 – New 25 101,908 37.30% Mustapha_Harun.jpg Mustapha Harun 1981 Usukan USNO 005500 3 seats 13 16 71,457 26.15% 3x4.svg Harris Salleh 1976 Tenom (lost) BERJAYA Barisan Nasional 000000 44 seats 37 7 84,194 30.81% Chief Minister Harris Salleh Barisan Nasional, (BERJAYA) Joseph Pairin Kitingan PBS The 1985 Sabah state election was held between Saturday, 20 April and Sunday, 21 April 1985. This was the fifth state election to take place. Parti Bersatu Sabah won 25 out 48 seats contested, thus forming government with its president Joseph Pairin Kitingan being sworn in as Chief Minister.Berjaya swept out of power https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FbQTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x44DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5881%2C4848126 5 January 2023 22 April 1985 1 This election is a milestone in Sabah political history as it marked the first time that a party not part of the nation's ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN) formed government. PBS took control of the state from the previous ruling government under Parti Berjaya—a partner of BN, which has been in power since 1976. Results United Sabah Party 100486 25 New Sabah People's United Front 84194 6 –38 United Sabah National Organisation 74050 16 +13 United Pasok Nunukragang National Organisation 5988 1 +1 Sabah United Native People's Party 3734 0 New United Sabah People's Action Party 3088 0 New Democratic Action Party 3115 0 0 Independents 1140 0 0 4909 0 379247 YusoffMohammad Agus Yusoff (2006) Malaysian Federalism: Conflict Or Consensus, p267 Tindak Malaysia Github HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS/1985-SABAH-STATE-ELECTIONS/1985_SABAH_DUN_RESULTS.CSV at main · TindakMalaysia/HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS GitHub https://github.com/TindakMalaysia/HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS/blob/main/1985-SABAH-STATE-ELECTIONS/1985_SABAH_DUN_RESULTS.csv Aftermath 1986 Sabah riots 1986 Sabah state election Pairin, himself a former member of Party Berjaya, formed PBS barely 47 days before the elections.2644213 K. Ramanathan Kalimuthu The Sabah State Elections of April 1985 Asian Survey 1986 26 7 815–837 Asian Survey, Vol. 26, No. 7 10.2307/2644213 Opponents of PBS, namely, Harris Salleh of Berjaya, and Tun Mustapha of USNO were dissatisfied with the result. Tun Mustapha then sought to get sworn in as Chief Minister illegally,New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Columns/2086779/Article/index_html Kalimullah Hassan OPINION: Reforms yes, but not through violence in the streets 18 January 2008 18 November 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071221225545/http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Columns/2086779/Article/index_html 21 December 2007 and this resulted in a court battle which ended in favour of Pairin.The New York Times Kota Kinabalu Journal; With Houses on Stilts and Hopes in Another Land https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D9163BF932A35753C1A961948260 Crossette, Barbara 1 October 1987 18 January 2007Parti Bersatu Sabah Historical Background http://www.pbs-sabah.org/pbs3/html/party/background.html 18 January 2008 https://archive.today/20130415190007/http://www.pbs-sabah.org/pbs3/html/party/background.html 15 April 2013 dead The election resulted in riots around Sabah between March and May 1986. Bombings occurred in Kota Kinabalu, and arson in other towns. The rioters were trying to bring down Pairin from being the head of the state government. In 1986 itself, another election was announced following defections by PBS assemblymen to USNO. PBS won again, this time with a two-thirds majority.The Star 22 June 2008 2 February 2009 Is snap polls the answer? http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/22/nation/21624309&sec=nation dead https://web.archive.org/web/20090906003746/http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/6/22/nation/21624309&sec=nation 6 September 2009 PBS joined the Barisan Nasional coalition after this election, but later left the coalition in 1990. References Category:Sabah state elections Sabah