1964 Malaysian General Election
The Confrontation election25 April 1964 · Alliance high tide and 13 May · 104 seats, 53 for a majority
General elections were held in Malaysia on Saturday, 25 April 1964, to elect members of the expanded Dewan Rakyat, the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Malaysia. These were the first federal elections since the Malaysia Agreement of 1963, which transformed the Federation of Malaya into Malaysia with the addition of Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak.
Cleanly counted but heavily tilted: severe malapportionment, government-controlled media and the Internal Security Act framed every contest of the Barisan Nasional decades.
Prime Minister before
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Alliance
Prime Minister (continued)
Tunku Abdul Rahman
Alliance
Largest force
Alliance
89 of 104 seats
Turnout
80.0%
The result
| Share of the Dewan Rakyat | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | Tunku Abdul Rahman | 89 | +15 | 1,204,340 | 58.5% | +6.7 | |
| PAS | Burhanuddin al-Helmy | 9 | -4 | 301,187 | 14.6% | -6.7 | |
| Socialist Front | Tan Chee Khoon | 2 | -6 | 330,898 | 16.1% | +3.2 | |
| PPP | D. R. Seenivasagam | 2 | -2 | 69,898 | 3.4% | -2.9 | |
| UDP | Lim Chong Eu | 1 | — | 88,223 | — | — | |
| PAP | Lee Kuan Yew | 1 | — | 42,130 | 2.0% | — |