2018 Johor state election

The 14th Johor State election was held on 9 May 2018, concurrently with the 2018 Malaysian general election. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.

2018 Johor state election

9 May 2018
All 56 seats in the Johor State Legislative Assembly 29 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,817,999
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Muhyiddin Yassin Mohamed Khaled Nordin Abdullah Husin Party PPBM UMNO PAS Alliance Pakatan Harapan Barisan Nasional Gagasan Sejahtera Leader since 7 January 2018 2013 2017 Leader's seat Gambir Permas (lost re-election) Puteri Wangsa (lost re-election) Last election 14 seats , 24.38% (Pakatan Rakyat) 38 seats, 53.99% 4 seats , 21.41% (Pakatan Rakyat) Seats before 16 37 3 Seats won 36 19 1 Seat change 20 18 2 Popular vote 803,148 582,265 118,582 Percentage 53.36% 38.68% 7.88% Swing 28.98% 15.31% 13.53%
Pakatan Harapan seats:   DAP   PKR   PPBM   AMANAH Opposition seats:   UMNO and MIC   PAS
Menteri Besar before election Mohamed Khaled Nordin BN Elected Menteri Besar Osman Sapian Pakatan Harapan

The Johor State Legislative Assembly would automatically dissolve on 20 June 2018, the fifth anniversary of the first sitting, and elections must be held within sixty days (two months) of the dissolution (on or before 20 August 2018, with the date to be decided by the Election Commission), unless dissolved prior to that date by the Head of State (Sultan of Johor) on the advice of the Head of Government (Menteri Besar of Johor).

The results of the election saw a historic win for Pakatan Harapan (PH), winning 36 seats (a majority but 1 seat short of supermajority) and ousting Barisan Nasional from the state government, the first time since the first Johor state elections in 1955 that BN or its predecessor Alliance were defeated. BERSATU's Osman Sapian was sworn in as Menteri Besar on 12 May 2018, while the state EXCO members were sworn in on 16 May 2018.

Contenders

Barisan Nasional (BN) is set to contest all 56 seats in Johor State Legislative Assembly. Barisan Nasional (BN) linchpin party United Malays National Organisation (UNMO) is to set to contest major share of Barisan Nasional (BN) seats.

Pakatan Harapan have decided to contest all 56 seats in Johor. Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) will contest in 18 seats while the Democratic Action Party (DAP) will have 14 seats. People's Justice Party (PKR) and the National Trust Party (Amanah) will contest 12 seats each.

Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) will compete for 40 seats.

Political parties

Coalition
Incumbent	Opposition
Barisan Nasional (BN)	Pakatan Harapan (PH)	Gagasan Sejahtera (GS)
United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan) Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)	Malaysian United Indigenous Party (Bersatu) Democratic Action Party (DAP) People's Justice Party (PKR) National Trust Party (Amanah)	Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)

The contested seats

No.	State constituency	Incumbent State Assemblyman	Political parties
			Barisan Nasional		Pakatan Harapan		Gagasan Sejahtera		Other parties/Ind
			Candidate Name	Party	Candidate Name	Party	Candidate Name	Party	Candidate Name	Party
N01	Buloh Kasap	Norshida Ibrahim (BN)	Zahari Sarip	UMNO	Norsamsu Mohd. Yusof	Bersatu
N02	Jementah	Tan Chen Choon (PH)	Chiam Yok Meng	MCA	Tan Chen Choon	DAP	Mazlan Ahmad	PAS
N03	Pemanis	Lau Chin Hoon (BN)	Koo Siaw Lee	Gerakan	Chong Fat Full	PKR	Normala Sudirman
N04	Kemelah	Ayub Rahmat (BN)	Anuar Abdul Manap	UMNO	Sulaiman Mohd Nor	Amanah
N05	Tenang	Mohd Azahar Ibrahim (BN)	Mohd Azahar Ibrahim		Mohd. Solihan Badri	Bersatu	Nasharudin Awang	PAS
N06	Bekok	Lim Eng Guan (PH)	Tan Chong	MCA	S Ramakrishnan	DAP
N07	Bukit Kepong (previously known as Bukit Serampang)	Ismail Mohamed (BN)	Mohd Noor Taib	UMNO	Sahruddin Jamal	Bersatu	Muhamad Nur Iqbal Abd Razak	PAS
N08	Bukit Pasir (previously known as Jorak)	Sharuddin Md Salleh (PH)	Noriah Mahat		Pizi Jihat		Najib Lep
N09	Gambir	M Asojan Muniyandy (BN)	M. Asojan Muniyandy	MIC	Muhyiddin Yassin		Mahfodz Mohamed
N10	Tangkak	Ee Chin Li (PH)	Goh Tee Tee	MCA	Ee Chin Li	DAP
N11	Serom	Abd Razak Minhat (BN)	Rahim Talib	UMNO	Faizul Amri Adnan	Amanah	Mustaffa Salleh	PAS
N12	Bentayan	Chua Wee Beng (PH)	Lee Kim Heng	MCA	Ng Yak Howe	DAP
N13	Simpang Jeram (previously known as Sungai Abong)	Sheikh Ibrahim Salleh (GS)	Mohd Radzi Md Amin	UMNO	Salahuddin Ayub	Amanah	Mohd Mazri Yahya	PAS
N14	Bukit Naning	Saipolbahari Suib (BN)	Hassan Johari		Md Ysahrudin Kusni	PKR	Azman Ibrahim
N15	Maharani	Mohammad Taslim (GS)	Ashari Sharif		Nor Hayati Bachok	Amanah	Mohammad Taslim
N16	Sungai Balang	Zaiton Ismail (BN)	Zaiton Ismail		Na’im Jusri	PKR	Cheman Yusoh
N17	Semerah	Mohd Ismail Roslan (BN)	Mohd Ismail Roslan		Mohd Khuzzan Abu Bakar		Adnan Othman
N18	Sri Medan	Zulkurnain Kamisan (BN)	Zulkurnain Kamisan		Mohd. Ajib Omar	Bersatu	Sallehuddin Ab Rashid
N19	Yong Peng	Chew Peck Choo (PH)	Ling Tian Soon	MCA	Chew Peck Choo	DAP	Muhammad Abdullah
N20	Semarang	Samsolbari Jamali (BN)	Samsolbari Jamali	UMNO	Zais Mohd. Akil	Bersatu	Mohd Bakri Samian
N21	Parit Yaani	Aminolhuda Hassan (PH)	Soh Lip Yan	MCA	Aminolhuda Hassan	Amanah	Nasir Abdullah
N22	Parit Raja	Azizah Zakaria (BN)	Norashidah Ramli	UMNO	Ferdaus Kayau	Bersatu	Abdul Hadi Harun
N23	Penggaram	Gan Peck Cheng (PH)	Kang Beng Kuan	MCA	Gan Peck Cheng	DAP	Misran Samian
N24	Senggarang	A Aziz Ismail (BN)	Zaidi Jaffar	UMNO	Khairuddin A. Rahim	Amanah	Mohd Ramli Md Kari
N25	Rengit	Ayub Jamil (BN)	Ayub Jamil		Malik Faishal Ahmad	PKR	Mohd Tumiran Ahmad
N26	Machap	Abd Taib Abu Bakar (BN)	Abd Taib Abu Bakar		Ahmad Ahem	Bersatu	Azlisham Azhar
N27	Layang-Layang	Abd Mutalip Abd Rahim (BN)	Onn Hafiz Ghazi		Murugan Muthu Samy	PKR	Mohd Jubri Selamat
N28	Mengkibol	Tan Hong Pin (PH)	Chin Sim Lai	MCA	Chew Chong Sin	DAP
N29	Mahkota	Md Jais Sarday (BN)	Md Jais Sarday	UMNO	Muhamad Said Jonit	Amanah	Muhammad Hasbullah Md Najib	PAS
N30	Paloh	Teoh Yap Kun (BN)	Teoh Yap Kun	MCA	Sheikh Omar Ali	DAP
N31	Kahang	Vidyananthan Ramanadhan (BN)	Vidyananthan Ramanadhan	MIC	Norlihan Ariffin	Bersatu
N32	Endau	Abd Latiff Bandi (BN)	Alwiyah Talib	UMNO	Norul Haszarul Abu Samah		Roslan Nikmat	PAS
N33	Tenggaroh	Raven Kumar Krishnasamyi (BN)	Raven Kumar Krishnasamyi	MIC	Rahamizon Abdul Ghani	PKR	A. Rahman A. Hamid
N34	Panti	Baderi Dasuki (BN)	Hahasrin Hashim	UMNO	Jawahir Hussein	Bersatu	Mohd Nazari Mokhtar
N35	Pasir Raja	Adham Baba (BN)	Rashidah Ismail		Abrary Ramly	Amanah	Bahrin Alias
N36	Sedili	Rasman Ithnain (BN)	Rasman Ithnain		Abd Razak Esa	PKR
N37	Johor Lama	Asiah Md Ariff (BN)	Roslaily Jahari		Nor Ashidah Ibrahim		Siti Zaharah Othman	PAS
N38	Penawar	Hamimah Mansor (BN)	Sharifah Azizah Syed Zain		Ahmad Kamal Nor	Amanah
N39	Tanjung Surat	Syed Sis A Rahman (BN)	Syed Sis A. Rahman		Zamil Najwah Arbain	PKR
N40	Tiram	Maulizan Bujang (BN)	Maulizan Bujang		Subramaniam		Azman Atmin	PAS
N41	Puteri Wangsa	Abdullah Husin (GS)	Abdul Aziz Tohak		Mazlan Bujang	Bersatu	Abdullah Husin
N42	Johor Jaya	Liow Cai Tung (PH)	Tan Cher Puk	MCA	Liow Cai Tung	DAP	R. Kumutha
N43	Permas	Mohamed Khaled Nordin (BN)	Mohamed Khaled Nordin	UMNO	Che Zakaria Mohd. Salleh	Bersatu	Ab Aziz Abdullah
N44	Larkin (previously known as Tanjong Puteri)	Adam Sumiru (BN)	Yahya Jaafar		Mohd. Izhar Ahmad		Zakiah Tukirin
N45	Stulang	Chen Kah Eng (PH)	Ang Boon Heng	MCA	Chen Kah Eng	DAP
N46	Perling (previously known as Pengkalan Rinting)	Cheo Yee How (PH)	Wong You Fong		Cheo Yee How		Muhamad Nazrin Ihsan	PAS
N47	Kempas	Tengku Putra Haron Aminurrashid Tengku Hamid Jumat (BN)	Ramli Bohani	UMNO	Osman Sapian	Bersatu	Dzulkifli Suleiman
N48	Skudai	Boo Cheng Hau (PH)	G.S. Kanan	MIC	Tan Hong Pin	DAP
N49	Kota Iskandar (previously known as Nusa Jaya)	Zaini Abu Bakar (BN)	Khairi Abd Malek	UMNO	Dzulkefly Ahmad	Amanah	Sallehuddin Mohd Dahiran	PAS
N50	Bukit Permai	Ali Mazat Salleh (BN)	Ali Mazat Salleh		Tosrin Jarvanthi	Bersatu	Ab Aziz Jaafar
N51	Bukit Batu	Jimmy Puah Wee Tse (PH)	Teo Lee Ho	Gerakan	Jimmy Puah Wee Tse	PKR	Juwahir Amin
N52	Senai	Wong Shu Qi (PH)	Shen Poh Kuan	MCA	Tee Boon Tsong	DAP
N53	Benut	Hasni Mohammad (BN)	Hasni Mohammad	UMNO	Zulkifli Tasrib	Bersatu	Mohd Firdaus Jaffar	PAS
N54	Pulai Sebatang	Tee Siew Kiong (BN)	Tee Siew Kiong	MCA	Taqiuddin Cheman	Amanah	Baharom Mohamad
N55	Pekan Nanas	Yeo Tung Siong (PH)	Tan Eng Meng		Yeo Tung Siong	DAP
N56	Kukup	Suhaimi Salleh (BN)	Mohd Othman Yusof	UMNO	Suhaizan Kaiat	Amanah	Abdul Karim Deraman	PAS

Election pendulum

The 14th General Election witnessed 36 governmental seats and 20 non-governmental seats filled the Johor State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 12 safe seats and 7 fairly safe seats, while the non-government side has 4 safe seats and 3 fairly safe seats.

2018 Johor state election

GOVERNMENT SEATS Marginal Semerah Mohd. Khuzzan Abu Bakar PKR 42.84 Pemanis Chong Fat Full PKR 45.14 Senggarang Khairuddin A. Rahim AMANAH 45.90 Mahkota Muhamad Said Jonit AMANAH 48.24 Bukit Naning Md. Ysahrudin Kusni PKR 48.38 Bukit Kepong Sahruddin Jamal BERSATU 48.98 Serom Faizul Amri Adnan AMANAH 49.20 Pulai Sebatang Taqiuddin Cheman AMANAH 50.73 Tenang Mohd. Solihan Badri BERSATU 50.92 Paloh Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali DAP 52.10 Tiram Gopalakrishnan Subramaniam PKR 52.71 Bukit Permai Tosrin Jarvanthi BERSATU 52.73 Pekan Nanas Yeo Tung Siong DAP 52.92 Gambir Muhyiddin Mohd. Yassin BERSATU 53.33 Maharani Nor Hayati Bachok AMANAH 53.92 Parit Yaani Aminolhuda Hassan AMANAH 54.16 Permas Che Zakaria Mohd. Salleh BERSATU 54.19 Fairly safe Larkin Mohd. Izhar Ahmad BERSATU 56.00 Kemelah Sulaiman Mohd. Nor AMANAH 56.10 Bekok Ramakrishnan Suppiah DAP 57.25 Kota Iskandar Dzulkefly Ahmad AMANAH 58.35 Jementah Tan Chen Choon DAP 59.07 Yong Peng Chew Peck Choo DAP 59.26 Kempas Osman Sapian BERSATU 59.68 Safe Tangkak Ee Chin Li DAP 61.57 Simpang Jeram Salahuddin Ayub AMANAH 61.62 Johor Jaya Liow Cai Tung DAP 62.53 Perling Cheo Yee How DAP 63.24 Penggaram Gan Peck Cheng DAP 64.44 Bukit Batu Jimmy Puah Wee Tse PKR 65.68 Stulang Andrew Chen Kah Eng DAP 67.55 Puteri Wangsa Mazlan Bujang BERSATU 70.25 Mengkibol Chew Chong Sin DAP 74.10 Senai Tee Boon Tsong DAP 75.10 Skudai Tan Hong Pin DAP 79.47 Bentayan Ng Yak Howe DAP 79.72 NON-GOVERNMENT SEATS Marginal Sungai Balang Zaiton Ismail UMNO 42.19 Parit Raja Norashidah Ramli UMNO 44.28 Machap Abd. Taib Abu Bakar UMNO 46.93 Layang-Layang Onn Hafiz Ghazi UMNO 46.93 Endau Alwiyah Talib UMNO 47.95 Kukup Mohd. Othman Yusof UMNO 49.60 Pasir Raja Rashidah Ismail UMNO 51.59 Buloh Kasap Zahari Sarip UMNO 52.51 Panti Hahasrin Hashim UMNO 53.15 Tenggaroh Raven Kumar Krishnasamy MIC 54.96 Bukit Pasir Najib Lep PAS 55.29 Rengit Ayub Jamil UMNO 55.33 Benut Hasni Mohammad UMNO 55.43 Fairly safe Sri Medan Zulkarnain Kamisan UMNO 56.88 Kahang Vidyanathan Ramanadhan MIC 57.66 Semarang Samsolbari Jamali UMNO 59.45 Safe Johor Lama Roslaily Jahari UMNO 60.57 Tanjung Surat Syed Sis Syed A. Rahman UMNO 65.37 Penawar Sharifah Azizah Syed Zain UMNO 70.35 Sedili Rasman Ithnain UMNO 75.98

Results

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	/–
	Pakatan Harapan		Democratic Action Party	311,905	22.64	14	1
			Malaysian United Indigenous Party	214,703	15.58	8	8
			National Trust Party	140,001	10.16	9	9
			People's Justice Party	114,884	8.34	5	4
		Total		781,493	56.73	36	22
	Barisan Nasional		United Malays National Organisation	353,616	25.67	17	–15
			Malaysian Chinese Association	144,888	10.52	0	–2
			Malaysian Indian Congress	42,502	3.09	2	–1
			Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia	14,989	1.09	0	–1
		Total		555,995	40.36	19	–19
	Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party			40,149	2.91	1	-3
Total				1,377,637	100.00	56	0
Source: UNDI

Seats that changed allegiance

No.	Seat	Previous Party (2013)			Current Party (2018)
N03	Pemanis		Barisan Nasional (GERAKAN)		Pakatan Harapan (PKR)
N04	Kemelah		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N05	Tenang		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N07	Bukit Kepong		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N08	Bukit Pasir		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Gagasan Sejahtera (PAS)
N09	Gambir		Barisan Nasional (MIC)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N11	Serom		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N13	Simpang Jeram		Gagasan Sejahtera (PAS)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N14	Bukit Naning		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (PKR)
N15	Maharani		Gagasan Sejahtera (PAS)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N17	Semerah		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (PKR)
N21	Parit Yaani		Gagasan Sejahtera (PAS)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N24	Senggarang		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N29	Mahkota		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N30	Paloh		Barisan Nasional (MCA)		Pakatan Harapan (DAP)
N40	Tiram		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (PKR)
N41	Puteri Wangsa		Gagasan Sejahtera (PAS)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N43	Permas		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N44	Larkin		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N47	Kempas		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N49	Kota Iskandar		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)
N50	Bukit Permai		Barisan Nasional (UMNO)		Pakatan Harapan (BERSATU)
N54	Pulai Sebatang		Barisan Nasional (MCA)		Pakatan Harapan (AMANAH)

Aftermath

The results in Johor were seen as shocking to many, since the state was the birthplace of UMNO, and were viewed as 'fortress' with no defeats by BN or Alliance since 1955, the start of Johor state elections.

See also: 2020 Malaysian political crisis § Johor, and 2022 Johor state election

Osman had only led the state government for 11 months, before resigning as Menteri Besar in April 2019. He were replaced by another BERSATU MLA, Sahruddin Jamal, as Menteri Besar, who then led the state government for another 11 months, until the wake of 2020 Malaysian political crisis, which saw the exit of BERSATU and most of its MLAs from PH, which resulted in Sahruddin's resignation.

A new state government formed under a coalition of BN and Perikatan Nasional (BERSATU and PAS), with BN's Hasni Mohammad sworn in as Menteri Besar in February 2020. That government, in turn, lasted another 23 months until the death of Osman in December 2021 which reduced the majority of the government into a minority government, which resulted in a snap election being called by Hasni in January 2022 and took place in March 2022.