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Aside from PDS, other parties of BN suffers defeat in the election. PBRS, AKAR and MCA were wiped out, with the party leaders Joseph Kurup (PBRS) and Chau Tet On (MCA) lost in their seats to PBS candidate. UMNO, SAPP and LDP were the only BN parties beside PDS to win seats, with UMNO won in all 24 seats it contested, SAPP won three out of five equalling its 1994 election results, and LDP won both seats it contested gaining one more than the previous election. AKAR would be dissolved in 2001, with its president Pandikar Amin Mulia and most of the members joining UMNO.
After UMNO's perfect performance in this election, the leader of the state's UMNO would led the BN Sabah until BN's demise in Sabah after the [[
===PBS rejoins BN===
After PBS were handed a first defeat since its first [[1985 Sabah state election|state election in 1985]] and failed to wrestle control of the state from BN, and further PBS MLA and MP defections to the government party, PBS central committee decided on 2001 to apply for re-entry into BN, and was officially accepted back into BN on 23 January 2002.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cabaran |url=https://www.partibersatusabah.org/cabaran |website=partibersatusabah.org |publisher=Parti Bersatu Sabah |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> This contributed to the near-domination of BN in the 2004 election as stated above.
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