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All 177 seats in the Dewan Rakyat 89 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 6,791,446 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 69.97% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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General elections were held in Malaysia on 2 and 3 August 1986.[1] Voting took place in all 177 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominant house of Parliament. State elections also took place in 351 state constituencies in eleven of the thirteen states.