The 14th Negeri Sembilan State election was held on 9 May 2018, to elect the State Assemblymen of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly, the legislature of the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan. The previous state election was held on 5 May 2013. The state assemblymen is elected to 5 years term each.
In a historic result, Barisan Nasional (BN), the ruling coalition was ousted from power by Pakatan Harapan (PH). Since the first Negeri Sembilan state election in 1955, BN or its predecessor Alliance had never lost the state election. PH won 20 seats in the election, gaining a simple majority, while BN won 16. Aminuddin Harun from PH's component party PKR was sworn in as new Menteri Besar on 12 May 2018.[1]
The 14th General Election witnessed 20 governmental seats and 16 non-governmental seats filled the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly. The government side has 11 safe seats and 1 fairly safe seat, while the non-government side has 3 safe seats and 3 fairly safe seats. In addition, there were 1 seat that win uncontested in non-governmental seats; namely Rantau (won by incumbent assemblyman, Mohamad Hasan).
2018 Negeri Sembilan state election
GOVERNMENT SEATS
Marginal
Labu
Ismail Ahmad
PKR
45.72
Lenggeng
Suhaimi Kassim
AMANAH
47.99
Chennah
Anthony Loke Siew Fook
DAP
50.91
Kelawang
Bakri Sawir
AMANAH
51.39
Ampangan
Mohamad Rafie Ab. Malik
PKR
51.43
Pilah
Mohamad Nazaruddin Sabtu
PKR
51.80
Paroi
Mohamad Taufek Abd. Ghani
AMANAH
52.18
Sikamat
Aminuddin Harun
PKR
55.87
Fairly safe
Repah
Veerapan Superamaniam
DAP
58.57
Safe
Sri Tanjung
Ravi Munusamy
PKR
62.62
Bahau
Teo Kok Seong
DAP
64.74
Temiang
Ng Chin Tsai
DAP
64.81
Chuah
Michael Yek Diew Ching
PKR
65.81
Nilai
Arul Kumar Jambunathan
DAP
68.48
Rahang
Mary Josephine Pritam Singh
DAP
73.98
Lukut
Choo Ken Hwa
DAP
79.00
Seremban Jaya
Gunasekaren Palasamy
DAP
80.41
Bukit Kepayang
Nicole Tan Lee Koon
DAP
83.29
Mambau
Yap Yew Weng
DAP
85.04
Lobak
Chew Seh Yong
DAP
87.46
NON-GOVERNMENT SEATS
Marginal
Jeram Padang
Manickam Letchuman
MIC
39.26
Gemencheh
Mohd. Isam Mohd. Isa
UMNO
47.38
Linggi
Abdul Rahman Mohd. Redza
UMNO
48.53
Pertang
Noor Azmi Yusuf
UMNO
49.00
Johol
Saiful Yazan Sulaiman
UMNO
49.34
Juasseh
Ismail Lasim
UMNO
50.41
Seri Menanti
Abdul Samad Ibrahim
UMNO
50.45
Senaling
Adnan Abu Hassan
UMNO
52.86
Serting
Shamsulkahar Mohd. Deli
UMNO
55.48
Fairly safe
Gemas
Abdul Razak Said
UMNO
56.16
Kota
Awaludin Said
UMNO
57.39
Bagan Pinang
Tun Hairuddin Abu Bakar
UMNO
57.83
Safe
Chembong
Zaifulbahri Idris
UMNO
60.45
Sungai Lui
Mohd. Razi Mohd. Ali
UMNO
62.56
Palong
Mustafa Nagoor
UMNO
66.15
*Win uncontested
Rantau
Mohamad Hasan
UMNO
n/a
Aftermath
Rantau seat nomination dispute
Rantau constituency incumbent assemblyman and Barisan Nasional candidate Mohamad Hasan won his seat uncontested after People's Justice Party (PKR)’s candidate Dr Streram Sinnansamy was not allowed to enter the Nomination Centre to file his papers by the Election Commission (EC), supposedly because he did not have in his possession a pass issued by the Election Commission.[8][9] However, the Election Court has on the 16 November 2018, allowed the petition by Dr S. Streram and passed a ruling that Mohamad Hasan had not been duly elected, subsequently nullified Hasan's result.[10]A by-election was then held on 13 April 2019 after Mohamad Hasan's appeal was dismissed by the Federal Court on 18 February 2019. Mohamad Hasan somehow emerged victorious and managed to retain his seat again.[11]