As a result, the composition of parties in the state legislature prior to dissolution was BN with 57, SAPP with 2 and DAP with 1 seat.

The Sabah state election were conducted barely 3 months after the incident in Lahad Datu on February that year.

[4] BN was challenged by the newly formed Pakatan Rakyat coalition consisting of PKR (43), DAP (8) and PAS (9).

Musa Aman, the leader of UMNO and BN in Sabah, were sworn in as the Chief Minister for the fourth term, on 6 May 2013.

In 2015, the PR coalition was disbanded, due to disagreements between PAS and DAP over the former's insistence to implement the Islamic penal code, known as hudud, in the State of Kelantan.