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 Padungan 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]

9,297 valid votes · 53 rejected · 26 unreturned · 9,376 ballots issued of 20,949 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
Wee Hong SengWEE HONG SENGGPSSUPP

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.195 Bandar Kuching [1] [3]
  • Division: Not yet sourced

Polling districts (13)

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

  1. Market 195/09/01
  2. Bazaar 195/09/02
  3. Padungan 195/09/03
  4. Abell 195/09/04
  5. Deshon 195/09/05
  6. Sekama 195/09/06
  7. Bukit Tuan 195/09/07
  8. Kinyang 195/09/08
  9. Ellis 195/09/09
  10. Ban Hock 195/09/10
  11. Lumba Kuda 195/09/11
  12. Central 195/09/12
  13. Petanak 195/09/13

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Padungan (N.09) was one of three state seats inside the Bandar Kuching parliamentary seat (P.195), together with Pending and Batu Lintang. 3 5 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists 13 polling districts: Market, Bazaar, Padungan, Abell, Deshon, Sekama, Bukit Tuan, Kinyang, Ellis, Ban Hock, Lumba Kuda, Central and Petanak. 4

At the 2016 state election, Wong King Wei won the seat for DAP. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Chong Chieng Jen of DAP won with 4,686 votes. 1 Wee Hong Seng of SUPP, standing under the GPS logo, came second with 3,488 votes. 1 2 Raymond Thong Ee Yu of PBK received 930 votes and Lina Soo of ASPIRASI received 193 votes. 1 The majority was 1,198 votes, the 17th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 44.8%, with 9,376 ballots issued to 20,949 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. Multi-cornered fights in all state seats under Bandar Kuching, Malay Mail, 6 December 2021 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  6. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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