2013 Kedah state election

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2013 Kedah state election

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All 36 seats in the Kedah State Legislative Assembly 19 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Mukhriz Mahathir Azizan Abdul Razak Johari Abdul Party UMNO PAS PKR Alliance Barisan Nasional Pakatan Rakyat Pakatan Rakyat Leader since 2009 2003 2007 Leader's seat Ayer Hitam Sungai Limau Not contesting Last election 14 16 4 Seats won 21 9 4 Seat change 7 7 Popular vote 449,278[a] 289,174 127,702 Percentage 50.49% 32.50% 14.35%   Fourth party   Leader Lee Guan Aik Party DAP Alliance Pakatan Rakyat Leader since 2010 Leader's seat Not contesting Last election 1 Seats won 2 Seat change 1 Popular vote 17,745 Percentage 1.99%
Menteri Besar before election Azizan Abdul Razak Pakatan Rakyat (PAS) Elected Menteri Besar Mukhriz Mahathir Barisan Nasional (UMNO)

The 13th Kedah state election was held on 5 May 2013. Polling took place in 36 constituencies throughout the Malaysian state of Kedah, with each electing a State Assemblyman to the Kedah State Legislative Assembly. The election was conducted by the Malaysian Election Commission. The state election was held concurrently with the 2013 Malaysian general election.

Barisan Nasional (BN), having lost the state for the first time in their history in the 2008 election, regains the state government after winning 21 of the 36 seats.^[1] Pakatan Rakyat (PR), the informal coalition of Democratic Action Party (DAP), Parti Islam Se-Malaysia (PAS) and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), won the remaining 15 seats to become the main opposition.

This election is the only time the DAP-PAS-PKR coalition is referred as Pakatan Rakyat during the Kedah state election campaign (although each party is contesting using their own name and logo), and also the final Kedah state election which the three parties works as a coalition; PR splits in 2015 due to disagreements between DAP and PAS.

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