The Progressive Democratic Party ( Malay: Parti Demokratik Progresif,

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: PDP), formerly known as Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party is a

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based

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founded in 2002. The party was founded in the wake of the de-registration of the

Sarawak National Party The Sarawak National Party known by its acronym as "SNAP", is now a defunct political party in Malaysia. It was a member party of the Alliance Party from 1963 to 1966 and a member of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from 1976 until its expulsion ...

in November 2002 by a faction aligned to the Chief Minister of Sarawak,

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, led by William Mawan Ikom. The party has since rebranded in using a new name - Progressive Democratic Party since 2017 and has planned to expand to certain

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n states e.g.

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and

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(where it has established 6 divisions at the moment). It is one of the former component party of the

Barisan Nasional The National Front ( ms, Barisan Nasional; abbrev: BN) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties. It is also the third largest political coalition with 30 ...

coalition. Following the fall of BN in the 2018 general election and in the aftermath of meeting between all Sarawak-based BN coalition parties on 12 June 2018, PDP leave the coalition to formed a new Sarawak-based coalition of

Sarawak Parties Alliance The Sarawak Parties Alliance ( Malay: ''Gabungan Parti Sarawak''; abbrev: GPS) is a Sarawak-based national political alliance in Malaysia. It was established in 2018 by four former Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties operating solely in S ...

Electoral history

At the

2011 Sarawak state election The tenth Sarawak state election was held on Saturday, 16 April 2011 after nomination for candidates on Wednesday, 6 April 2011. The purpose of the election was to elect 71 representatives to the Sarawak State Assembly. The ninth state assembly ...

, PDP won six out of the eight seats it contested. In the 2013 General Election, all 4 of their candidates won their respective seats, including William Mawan himself, where he won in P205 Saratok, against Ali Biju of PKR. At the

2021 Sarawak state election The 2021 Sarawak state election, formally the 12th Sarawak general election, took place on 18 December 2021. This election was to elect 82 members of the 19th Sarawak State Legislative Assembly. The previous assembly was dissolved on 3 November ...

, PDP won five out of the six seats it contested.

Elected representatives

Dewan Negara (Senate)

Senators

* Appointed by His Majesty the

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** Paul Igai

Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives)

Members of Parliament of the 15th Malaysian Parliament

PDP has 2 MPs in the

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Dewan Undangan Negeri (State Legislative Assembly)

Malaysian State Assembly Representatives

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General election results

State election results

References

External links

* Political parties established in 2002 Political parties in Sarawak 2002 establishments in Malaysia {{Malaysia-party-stub