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 Stakan 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]

10,840 valid votes · 182 rejected · 48 unreturned · 11,070 ballots issued of 16,992 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
Hamzah bin BrahimHAMZAH BIN BRAHIMGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.197 Kota Samarahan [1] [3]
  • Division: Samarahan (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. Merdang 197/17/01
  2. Quop 197/17/02
  3. Sidanu 197/17/03
  4. Pengkalan Kuap 197/17/04
  5. Stakan 197/17/05

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Stakan (N.17) is one of the state seats in the Samarahan Division. 4 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 Asajaya and Muara Tuang. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists five polling districts: Merdang, Quop, Sidanu, Pengkalan Kuap and Stakan. 5

At the 2016 state election, Mohamad Ali Mahmud of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Hamzah bin Brahim of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 7,854 votes. 1 2 George Young Si Ricord Junior of PSB came second with 2,047 votes. 1 Leslie Ting Xiang Zhi of DAP received 524 votes and Atet anak Dego of PBK received 415 votes. 1 The majority was 5,807 votes, the 70th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 65.1%, with 11,070 ballots issued to 16,992 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. 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. 11th Sarawak Election: Full official results, New Straits Times, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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