KUALA LUMPUR (May 6): The Barisan Nasional retained the states of Perlis, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang in the 13th general election, the Election Commission (EC) announced.

The EC said the coalition retained Perlis with more than a two-thirds majority when it won 13 of the 15 state legislative assembly seats as of midnight yesterday.

The EC also announced that BN had retained Negeri Sembilan with a simple majority gained as of 12.20 am today.

It said the BN had won 19 of the 36 seats in the state legislative assembly by that time.

In Pahang, the EC announced that the BN retained the state with a more than two-thirds majority.

It said BN won 29 of the 42 state legislative assembly seats as of 12.15am.