United Malays National Organisation of Sabah

United Malays National Organisation of Sabah, also abbreviated as Sabah UMNO, is a branch of the United Malays National Organisation in Sabah, Malaysia.
It operates with a degree of autonomy from the central leadership based in the peninsular Malaysia.

History

Following the 1990 state election where the Sabah People's United Front failed to win any seats, it merged with the United Sabah National Organisation to form the Sabah chapter of the peninsula-based United Malays National Organisation. It was the ruling party in Sabah as part of the wider Barisan Nasional coalition from 1994 until the 2018 state election.
Following the party's defeat in 2018, Sabah UMNO chairman Hajiji Noor half the party's elected representatives, five members of parliament and nine state assemblymen, to leave the party and sit as independents. They subsequently joined the Malaysian United Indigenous Party, itself an UMNO splinter party, and formed its Sabah chapter.
Hajiji was replaced by Bung Moktar Radin, and the state chapter persisted despite concerns that it may be dissolved.
The party triggered the 2023 Sabah political crisis when it, as the leader of Barisan Nasional in the state, withdrew the coalition's support for the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah government led by Hajiji. This triggered a split within the state chapter as five assemblymen announced their support for Hajiji. The crisis ended when the central leadership of Barisan Nasional resolved to support Hajiji as chief minister, so as to reflect the parties' co-operation at the federal level as part of the Anwar Ibrahim cabinet. The five assemblymen who supported Hajiji later left the party to join Hajiji's Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah.

List of leaders

List of Chairmen

Elected representatives

Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives)

Members of Parliament of the 15th Malaysian Parliament

Sabah UMNO has 6 members in the House of Representatives.

Dewan Undangan Negeri (State Legislative Assembly)

General election results

Election	Total seats won	Seats contested	Total votes	Voting Percentage	Outcome of election	Election leader
1995		9	Unknown	Unknown	9 seats; Governing coalition	Sakaran Dandai
1999		11	139,654	2.10%	2 seats; Governing coalition	Osu Sukam
2004		13	93,831	1.35%	2 seats; Governing coalition	Musa Aman
2008		13	154,207	1.95%	; Governing coalition	Musa Aman
2013		14	258,298	2.34%	1 seat; Governing coalition	Musa Aman
2018		14	199,395	1.65%	7 seats; Opposition coalition later Governing coalition	Musa Aman Hajiji Noor Bung Moktar Radin
2022		11	185,094	1.19%	1 seat; Governing coalition	Bung Moktar Radin