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 Batu Kitang 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]

10,938 valid votes · 107 rejected · 51 unreturned · 11,096 ballots issued of 20,820 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
Lo Khere ChiangLO KHERE CHIANGGPSSUPP

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.196 Stampin [1] [3]
  • Division: Kuching (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (5)

As listed by the Election Commission in its October 2022 polling-hours notice, with the EC's district codes. [5]

  1. Arang 196/13/01
  2. Pasar Maong 196/13/02
  3. Haji Baki 196/13/03
  4. Kitang 196/13/04
  5. Lidah Tanah 196/13/05

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Batu Kitang (N.13) is one of the state seats in the Kuching Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of three state seats inside the Stampin parliamentary seat (P.196), together with Kota Sentosa and Batu Kawah. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists five polling districts: Arang, Pasar Maong, Haji Baki, Kitang and Lidah Tanah. 5

At the 2016 state election, Lo Khere Chiang of SUPP won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Lo Khere Chiang of SUPP, standing under the GPS logo, won with 6,307 votes. 1 2 Abdul Aziz Isa of DAP came second with 2,144 votes. 1 Liu Thian Leong of PSB received 1,812 votes and Wong Tun Teck of PBK received 675 votes. 1 The majority was 4,163 votes, the 54th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 53.3%, with 11,096 ballots issued to 20,820 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. Perutusan Pegawai Daerah Bau, Pentadbiran Bahagian Kuching (Pejabat Residen Bahagian Kuching) (accessed 8 November 2026)
  5. 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)
  6. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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