Malaysia: election results by polling district

2008–2022 · 4 elections · MYS

SAGE has legislative election results for Malaysia from 4 elections between 2008 and 2022: 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2022. The smallest unit is the polling district. The 2022 election has 38,349 polling districts, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for every election.

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Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

Year	Election type	Vote type	Units	% located	Votes	Polygons
2008	Legislative (lower house)		21,822	89%	7,738,651	yes	[map]
	Legislative (lower house)	Postal	222	0%	206,030	yes
2013	Legislative (lower house)	Early	849	0%	211,833	yes	[map]
	Legislative (lower house)		25,279	100%	10,723,165	yes
	Legislative (lower house)	Postal	222	0%	119,889	yes
2018	Legislative (lower house)	Early	906	0%	229,047	yes	[map]
	Legislative (lower house)		28,112	100%	11,681,039	yes
	Legislative (lower house)	Postal	222	0%	172,893	yes
2022	Legislative (lower house)	Early	966	0%	210,559	yes	[map]
	Legislative (lower house)		38,349	100%	15,101,287	yes
	Legislative (lower house)	Postal	222	0%	302,134	yes

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 5.2 MB] [gpkg 12 MB] [parquet 12 MB] [rds 13 MB] [codebook 724 KB]

Year	Downloads
2022	[csv 2.0 MB] [gpkg 3.5 MB] [parquet 1.1 MB]
2018	[csv 1.3 MB] [gpkg 3.2 MB] [parquet 917 KB]
2013	[csv 1.0 MB] [gpkg 3.1 MB] [parquet 805 KB]
2008	[csv 790 KB] [gpkg 2.4 MB] [parquet 707 KB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Malaysia", years = 2022)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Malaysia", years=[2022])

Sources

Election Commission of Malaysia

Notes

Malaysian coalition results align with Wikipedia aggregates, but there seem to be discrepancies in the vote-shares attained by the parties within each coalition.
Beginning with the 2013 election, results are provided at the saluran (polling-stream) level: each polling district (daerah mengundi) is divided into several streams that share one polling centre and the same geometry. The party column gives the ballot-symbol party (the coalition for BN/PH/PN/GPS or a standalone party), with the component party in party_b and the coalition in party_c. The 2008 election remains at parliamentary-constituency level. Polling-district polygons are Thiessen cells built from the district points (Tindak Malaysia daerah-mengundi centroids where available, otherwise Google-geocoded polling centres), because gazetted polling-district boundaries are not public for Sarawak and do not tile the country's unpopulated interior.

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

Some of these data come from other researchers’ collections; see please also cite.

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