[1] After the 1987 Ming Court Affair, PERMAS which was founded by Abdul Rahman Ya'kub (the uncle of Abdul Taib Mahmud) continued his final bid with PBDS in this election to topple the Taib led Sarawak BN.

[2] But in 1990 Malaysian general election, PBDS, which remained with the BN coalition at the federal level, won four parliamentary seats.

Incumbent chief minister Taib Mahmud dissolved the state assembly in September 1991.

[2] PBB, the largest component party of the Sarawak BN coalition, had the final say in the seat allocation.

By winning in this election, they also hoped to install a Dayak chief minister because the Iban people is the largest ethnic group in Sarawak.

DAP put high hopes on the state assembly seats of Bawang Assan in Sibu and Batu Lintang in Kuching.

DAP and PBDS, however, reached an agreement that they would contest the Repok and Meradong constituencies in Sarikei and Bintangor respectively.

Parti NEGARA was speculated to receive financial backing from PBS government in Sabah in order to contest against BN.

BN also had more money and resources when compared to the opposition in terms of printed material, contributions, and campaign workers.

Chan Seng Khai, a SUPP candidate contesting for the Batu Lintang state assembly seat, was an underdog at the beginning of the campaign period.

He lost to Sim Kwang Yang, a DAP parliamentarian for Bandar Kuching in 1990 parliamentary elections.

However, when Sarawak BN pledged RM 60 million for upgrading the drainage system in Kuching, the Chinese voters decided to support SUPP for the continuation of development.

Soon Koh lost to David Tiong from PERMAS in the 1987 state elections for the constituency of Igan.

Despite losing, Soon Koh continued his community services and contested for Bawang Assan constituency in this election.

[2] SUPP also successfully portrayed DAP as an outsider party from Peninsular Malaysia which has no interest in Sarawak.

Chief minister Taib also barred Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (leader of Semangat 46) from entering Sarawak campaigning for DAP during the state election.

PBDS also campaigned against BN excessive logging policies and called for respect for Dayak native land laws.

DAP called the SUPP a "tycoon" party which serves only the interests of big businesses and towkays instead of the people.

However, PBDS deputy president Daniel Tajem was able to win back his old seat of Bukit Begunan which he has lost in the 1987 elections.

Another two PBDS members, Harrison Ngau Laing and Richard Riot Jaem also lost their seats to BN.

On the other hand, at parliamentary level, DAP parliamentarians were elected as a "protest vote" against the federal BN coalition which was perceived as "anti-Chinese".

[2] The only bright spot for DAP was at the Padungan state constituency when a newcomer named Dominique Ng Kim Ho put up a good fight against a popular SUPP candidate, Song Swee Guan.

[4] On the nomination day, Sarawak BN won two uncontested seats, namely N.3 Pantai Damai and N.24 Saribas.

Both Mahathir and Taib were keen to readmit PBDS to gain the remaining faction of Dayak support.

PBDS also agreed that all the parliamentary and state assembly seat allocations will be left to the Sarawak BN to decide.

With the readmission of PBDS into BN fold in 1994, chief minister Taib ruled Sarawak without any opposition in the state assembly.