At a press conference, he said that Gabungan Parti Sarawak has won 20 seats while PAS and Perikatan Nasional won 18 and 17 seats respectively for a total of 35.

Barisan Nasional secured 16 seats while Gabungan Rakyat Sabah and Sabah DAP each won four seats.

Warisan won two seats while Muda and PBM each won one seat. An independent candidate has won one seat as well.

Ghani did not state when the results for the remaining seats will be announced.

Big names fall, but Ismail and Muhyiddin safe

Among the big names who failed to win seats include Pejuang’s Dr Mahathir Mohamad (Langkawi) and BN’s Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (Gua Musang).

Unofficial results have also seen BN’s Khairy Jamaluddin and Tengku Zafrul Aziz lose their bids to win the Sungai Buloh and Kuala Selangor seats respectively.

There were no upsets for Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob and PN chairman Muhyiddin Yassin, with the former retaining his Bera seat with a majority of 16,695 votes while the latter defended his Pagoh seat with a majority of 10,007 votes.

In its last update on voter turnout, the EC said that some 70%, or about 14.82 million of the 21.17 million electors in GE15, had cast their ballots at 4pm yesterday.

This exceeded the total number who voted in GE14 by 3.42 million.

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