{"id":21539,"date":"2018-04-10T17:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21539"},"modified":"2018-04-10T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T09:34:55","slug":"14th-general-election-ge14-to-be-held-on-may-9-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21539","title":{"rendered":"14th General Election (GE14) to be held on May 9, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The Election Commission (EC) announced the 14th General Election (GE14) to be held\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">on May 9, 2018<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>EC chairman Tan Sri Mohd Hashim Abdullah, who made the announcement, said nomination day will be held\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">on April 28<\/a>\u00a0while early voting will be\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">on May 5\u00a0<\/a>giving candidates 11 days to campaign.\u200b<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Parliament was dissolved last Saturday (April 7) to pave way for the election.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This time around, a total of 222 parliamentary and 505 state seats are at stake to secure the mandate to administer the country which has around 31.7 million people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>BN won the last general election by taking 133 seats out of the 222 contested.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At the time of the parliament\u2019s dissolution BN held 132 seats, DAP, 36; PKR, 28; PAS, 13; Parti Amanah Negara, seven; Parti Warisan Sabah, two; Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) and Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM), one each; and Independents, two.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission (EC) announced the 14th General Election (GE14) to be held\u00a0on May 9, 2018. EC chairman Tan Sri Mohd Hashim Abdullah, who made the announcement, said nomination day will be held\u00a0on April 28\u00a0while early voting will be\u00a0on May 5\u00a0giving candidates 11 days to campaign.\u200b Parliament was dissolved last Saturday (April 7) to pave way for the election. This time around, a total of 222 parliamentary and 505 state seats are at stake to secure the mandate to administer the country which has around 31.7 million people. BN won<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=21539\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21540,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions\/21540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}