All 62 seats in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly 32 seats needed for a majority
Registered
868,487
Turnout
542,285 (62.44%)
Majority party
Minority party
DAP
Leader
Abdul Taib Mahmud
Wong Ho Leng
Party
BN
DAP
Leader since
26 March 1981 (1981-03-26)
12 February 2001
Leader's seat
Balingian
Bukit Assek (lost)
Last election
57 seats, 67.7%
3 seats, 9.0%
Seats before
57
2
Seats won
60
1
Seat change
3
1
Popular vote
382,137
45,327
Percentage
71.2%
8.4%
Swing
3.5%
0.6%
Chief Minister before election
Abdul Taib Mahmud
BN
Subsequent chief minister
Abdul Taib Mahmud
BN
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The eighth Sarawak state election was held on Thursday, 27 September 2001 with nomination date on Tuesday, 18 September 2001. The state assembly was supposed to be expired on 18 November 2001 but it was dissolved by the governor of Sarawak 2 months earlier on 3 September 2001.[1]
The election saw 815,932 citizens eligible to vote but only 67.01% of the total voters or 546,285 voters had turned up to vote in this election.[1]
There were 171 candidates pursuing for 62 state seats in Sarawak. Sarawak Barisan Nasional (National Front) won 60 out of 62 seats while the remaining two seats were won by Democratic Action Party (DAP) and independent respectively.[1][2]
^ abcReport of the Eighth Sarawak state elections 2001 (Malay-English bilingual version). Election Commission of Malaysia. URL accessed on 26 August 2009
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