UN General Assembly
1963

119. The Inter-Governmental Committee worked from September to December 1962 and its recommendations were published in February 1963, setting out in detail the safeguards for the two territories to be provided for in the constitutional arrangements enabling the two States to become constituent units with other States of the Federation to form Malaysia. 120. Finally, elections were held in both Sabah and Sarawak on the basis of universal adult franchise and in which Malaysia was the central issue. In the countrywide elections in Sabah to the local councils which form the electoral college for the Legislative Council Elections held in December 1962, 107 of the 110 seats were won by pro-Malaysia political parties. The three remaining seats went to independents, and they too were pro-Malaysia.