State election special · PRN13
Sarawak Election 2026
Nomination 28 NovEarly voting 8 DecPolling 12 DecOfficial SPR statement not yet located; dates are from news reports.

Sources and fact-check

Where every fact on the Demak Laut page comes from, and how it was checked.

Data check

Checked against official results

2021 figures checked against the official statement of the poll published in the Federal Government Gazette. [1]

2021 results

Votes, electorate and ballot counts are from the official statement of the poll in the Federal Government Gazette. The ballot paper showed “GPS” for GPS candidates; the component party (PBB, SUPP, PRS or PDP) is from the Malaysian Election Corpus. [1] [2]

9,759 valid votes · 237 rejected · 28 unreturned · 10,024 ballots issued of 14,813 registered voters

Where this site shows a name or party differently from the ballot paper (titles such as Dato or Dr are dropped for every candidate).
Shown on this siteName on ballotLabel on ballotParty shown
Hazland B. Abg. HipniDR. HAZLAND B. ABG. HIPNIGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.193 Santubong [1] [3]
  • Division: Not yet sourced

Polling districts (11)

As listed by the Election Commission in its October 2022 polling-hours notice, with the EC's district codes. [4]

  1. Tanjong Embang 193/05/01
  2. Muara Tebas 193/05/02
  3. Geobilt 193/05/03
  4. Bako 193/05/04
  5. Sejingkat 193/05/05
  6. Senari 193/05/06
  7. Tanjong Bako 193/05/07
  8. Pinggan Jaya 193/05/08
  9. Tabuan Melayu 193/05/09
  10. Muara Tabuan 193/05/10
  11. Tabuan Hulu 193/05/11

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Demak Laut (N.05) was one of three state seats inside the Santubong parliamentary seat (P.193), together with Tanjong Datu and Pantai Damai. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists 11 polling districts: Tanjong Embang, Muara Tebas, Geobilt, Bako, Sejingkat, Senari, Tanjong Bako, Pinggan Jaya, Tabuan Melayu, Muara Tabuan and Tabuan Hulu. 4

At the 2016 state election, Hazland Abang Hipni of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, Hazland B. Abg. Hipni of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 7,636 votes. 1 2 Yatika binti Jelani of PSB came second with 1,237 votes. 1 Khairul bin Ahmat, an independent, received 674 votes and Jen Peli of AMANAH received 212 votes. 1 The majority was 6,399 votes, the 75th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 67.7%, with 10,024 ballots issued to 14,813 registered voters. 1

Every statement above was checked against its source on 8 November 2026.

All sources for this seat

  1. P.U. (B) 687/2021: Results of Contested Election and Statements of the Poll after the Official Addition of Votes, State Constituencies for the State of Sarawak, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (Federal Government Gazette; results certified by SPR Returning Officers), 29 December 2021 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  2. Sarawak DUN Elections (PRN): Ballots, ElectionData.MY / Malaysian Election Corpus (T. Thevananthan), 24 June 2026 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  3. 2015 Delimitation of Sarawak (DUN), ElectionData.MY / Malaysian Election Corpus (Thevananthan & Chacko), 30 December 2025 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  4. P.U. (B) 514/2022: Notice under Subregulation 11(5A), Polling Hours for the Fifteenth General Election, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (Federal Government Gazette; notice by the Election Commission), 31 October 2022 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  5. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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