Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak

This article is about the defunct PBDS party. For the revived and re-registered new party, see Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak Baru. For other uses of PBDS, see PBDS.

The Sarawak Native People's Party or Malay: Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS, lit. "Sarawak Dayak People's Party") was a political party in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. It was established in 1983, by Datuk Amar Leo Moggie Irok, after seceding from Sarawak National Party (SNAP) following his loss in the contest for the SNAP's president post against Datuk Amar James Wong Kim Ming.

Sarawak Native People's Party
Malay name	Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak ڤرتي بنسا دايق سراوق
Chinese name	砂拉越達雅黨 砂拉越达雅党 Shālāyuè Dáyǎ dǎng 砂拉越土著人民黨 砂拉越土著人民党 Shālāyuè tǔzhù rénmín dǎng
Abbreviation	PBDS
President	Daniel Tajem
Founder	Leo Moggie Irok
Founded	17 July 1983
Dissolved	5 December 2003 (1st) 21 October 2004 (2nd)
Split from	Sarawak National Party
Succeeded by	Parti Rakyat Sarawak Malaysian Dayak Congress Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak Baru
Headquarters	Kuching, Sarawak
National affiliation	Barisan Nasional (1983–2004) Kumpulan Maju (1987)
Colours	Black, white
Politics of Malaysia Political parties Elections

PBDS, as a breakaway of SNAP, won 15 seats in the 1987 Sarawak state election, while its ally, Sarawak Malaysian People's Association (PERMAS), won only 5 seats. Overall, the PBDS won 28 constituencies with PBB 14; SUPP 11 and SNAP 3.^[1] In both cases, SNAP and PBDS (both parties now defunct) joined the Malaysian National Front or Barisan Nasional (BN) as the ruling coalition.

The party was dissolved twice, firstly in 2003 and secondly in 2004 due to leadership crisis between Datuk Daniel Tajem Miri as the PBDS president and Dr James Jemut Masing as the challenger with the latter leaves the party and founded Parti Rakyat Sarawak in 2003.^[2]

The dissolution of PBDS led to the formation two offshoot parties; one is Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) led by Datuk Dr James Jemut Masing and Datuk Sng Chee Hua which was successfully registered and admitted into BN in 2004 while another Malaysian Dayak Congress (MDC) failed to be registered by the Registrar of Societies (RoS). Meanwhile, there was also an attempt to revive PBDS^[3] and it was finally successfully approved and re-registered as Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (Baru) in 2013.^[4]

General election results

Election	Total seats won	Seats contested	Total votes	Share of votes	Outcome of election	Election leader
1986	5 / 177	6	24,822	0.52%	5 seat; Governing coalition (Barisan Nasional)	Leo Moggie Irok
1990	4 / 180	6	22,590		1 seat; Governing coalition (Barisan Nasional)	Leo Moggie Irok
1995	5 / 192	6	29,768		1 seat; Governing coalition (Barisan Nasional)	Leo Moggie Irok
1999	6 / 193	6	51,659		1 seat; Governing coalition (Barisan Nasional)	Leo Moggie Irok
2004	6 / 219	6	46,292	0.66%	0 seat; Governing coalition (Barisan Nasional)	Daniel Tajem

State election results

State election	State Legislative Assembly
	Sarawak	Total won / Total contested
2/3 majority	2 / 3	2 / 3
1983	6 / 48	6 / 14
1986	15 / 48	15 / 21
1991	7 / 56	7 / 34
1996	8 / 62	8 / 8
2001	8 / 62	8 / 8