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 Kawah 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]

11,150 valid votes · 102 rejected · 45 unreturned · 11,297 ballots issued of 20,681 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
Sim Kui HianDR. SIM KUI HIANGPSSUPP

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.196 Stampin [1] [3]
  • Division: Not yet sourced

Polling districts (5)

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

  1. RPR Batu Kawah 196/14/01
  2. Kawah 196/14/02
  3. Stapok 196/14/03
  4. Sin San Tu 196/14/04
  5. Kim Chu Shin 196/14/05

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Batu Kawah (N.14) was one of three state seats inside the Stampin parliamentary seat (P.196), together with Kota Sentosa and Batu Kitang. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists five polling districts: RPR Batu Kawah, Kawah, Stapok, Sin San Tu and Kim Chu Shin. 4

At the 2016 state election, Sim Kui Hian of SUPP won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, Sim Kui Hian of SUPP, standing under the GPS logo, won with 7,827 votes. 1 2 Kelvin Yii Lee Wuen of DAP came second with 2,434 votes. 1 Chai Kueh Khun of PBK received 756 votes and Fong Pau Teck of ASPIRASI received 133 votes. 1 The majority was 5,393 votes, the 65th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 54.6%, with 11,297 ballots issued to 20,681 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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