BN's win demonstrates the party's continued dominance in the southern Malaysian state.
Barisan Nasional controls the Johor state government with its super majority of 40 of the 56 seats in the state assembly.
His Perikatan Nasional rival, 61-year-old former Johor state footballer Mohamad Haizan Jaafar, secured just 7,347 votes, representing about 21 per cent of the ballot. The opposition PN is dominated by Islamist party Parti Islam SeMalaysia and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia. Complacency by both BN and PH as well as expectations that BN would likely win were contributing factors for the lower voter turnout, said Universiti Malaya sociopolitical analyst Awang Azman Awang Pawi.
Mr Halmie Azrie Abdul Halim, a senior analyst at political risk consultancy Vriens and Partners, said: “This win is a signal that Johor remains an Umno bedrock and that PN has no presence there.”While member parties of BN and PH – namely Umno and the Democratic Action Party – had campaigned together in Mahkota to canvass support from the Malay and non-Malay voters, a war of words between their leaders earlier threatened to derail this effort.
The Mahkota result highlights the potential of the PH-BN alliance, including via Umno-DAP cooperation, which is “something that seemed unthinkable at the beginning of this decade”, said Mr Amir Fareed Rahim, strategy director of political risk consultancy KRA Group.
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