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 Asajaya 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]

9,109 valid votes · 171 rejected · 16 unreturned · 9,296 ballots issued of 12,349 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
Abd Karim Rahman HamzahABD KARIM RAHMAN HAMZAHGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.197 Kota Samarahan [1] [3]
  • Division: Samarahan (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4] [5]

Polling districts (19)

As listed by the Election Commission in its October 2022 polling-hours notice, with the EC's district codes. [6]

  1. Beliong 197/15/01
  2. Tanjung Apong 197/15/02
  3. Tambirat 197/15/03
  4. Tambey 197/15/04
  5. Sui 197/15/05
  6. Sambir 197/15/06
  7. Sebandi Matang 197/15/07
  8. Sebandi Ulu 197/15/08
  9. Subi 197/15/09
  10. Moyan 197/15/10
  11. Reba 197/15/11
  12. Moyan Ulu 197/15/12
  13. Moyan Ledang 197/15/13
  14. Serpan 197/15/14
  15. Serpan Ulu 197/15/15
  16. Asajaya 197/15/16
  17. Asajaya Laut 197/15/17
  18. Tebun 197/15/18
  19. Sampun 197/15/19

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Asajaya (N.15) is one of the state seats in the Samarahan Division. 4 5 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of three state seats inside the Kota Samarahan parliamentary seat (P.197), together with Muara Tuang and Stakan. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists 19 polling districts: Beliong, Tanjung Apong, Tambirat, Tambey, Sui, Sambir, Sebandi Matang, Sebandi Ulu, Subi, Moyan, Reba, Moyan Ulu, Moyan Ledang, Serpan, Serpan Ulu, Asajaya, Asajaya Laut, Tebun and Sampun. 6

At the 2016 state election, Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 7

At the election on 18 December 2021, Abd Karim Rahman Hamzah of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 6,380 votes. 1 2 Ishak bin Buji of PSB came second with 1,849 votes. 1 Mahmud bin Epah of PKR received 721 votes and Mohamad Hamdeen bin Saharuddin of PBK received 159 votes. 1 The majority was 4,531 votes, the 58th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 75.3%, with 9,296 ballots issued to 12,349 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. Ketua Masyarakat dan Ketua Kaum (Daerah Samarahan), Pentadbiran Bahagian Samarahan (accessed 8 November 2026)
  5. Senarai Ketua Masyarakat dan Ketua Kaum Daerah Asajaya, Pentadbiran Bahagian Samarahan (accessed 8 November 2026)
  6. 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)
  7. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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