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 Samariang 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]

12,960 valid votes · 121 rejected · 102 unreturned · 13,183 ballots issued of 21,363 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
Sharifah Hasidah bt Sayeed Aman GhazaliSHARIFAH HASIDAH BT SAYEED AMAN GHAZALIGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.194 Petra Jaya [1] [3]
  • Division: Not yet sourced

Polling districts (8)

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

  1. Samariang 194/07/01
  2. Lintang 194/07/02
  3. Kandis 194/07/03
  4. Semerah Padi 194/07/04
  5. Sukma 194/07/05
  6. Kampong Tunku 194/07/06
  7. Bedil 194/07/07
  8. Astana Lot 194/07/08

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Samariang (N.07) was one of three state seats inside the Petra Jaya parliamentary seat (P.194), together with Tupong and Satok. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists eight polling districts: Samariang, Lintang, Kandis, Semerah Padi, Sukma, Kampong Tunku, Bedil and Astana Lot. 4

At the 2016 state election, Sharifah Hasidah Sayeed Aman Ghazali of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, Sharifah Hasidah bt Sayeed Aman Ghazali of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 11,354 votes. 1 2 Abang Halil of AMANAH came second with 1,071 votes. 1 Othman bin Abdillah of SEDAR received 535 votes. 1 The majority was 10,283 votes, the 80th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 61.7%, with 13,183 ballots issued to 21,363 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)

About the data