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 Bukit Semuja 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]

8,725 valid votes · 153 rejected · 45 unreturned · 8,923 ballots issued of 14,893 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
John anak IlusJOHN ANAK ILUSGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.199 Serian [1] [3]
  • Division: Serian (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4] [5]

Polling districts (6)

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

  1. Sedihan 199/23/01
  2. Triboh 199/23/02
  3. Selabi 199/23/03
  4. Pasar Serian 199/23/04
  5. Kakai 199/23/05
  6. Serian Hulu 199/23/06

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Bukit Semuja (N.23) is one of the state seats in the Serian Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of three state seats inside the Serian parliamentary seat (P.199), together with Tebedu and Kedup. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists six polling districts: Sedihan, Triboh, Selabi, Pasar Serian, Kakai and Serian Hulu. 6

At the 2016 state election, John Ilus won the seat as a direct Barisan Nasional candidate. 7

At the election on 18 December 2021, John anak Ilus of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 6,113 votes. 1 2 Elsiy A/k Tingang of PSB came second with 1,408 votes. 1 Brolin Nicholsion of DAP received 777 votes and Edward Andrew Luwak of PBK received 427 votes. 1 The majority was 4,705 votes, the 59th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 59.9%, with 8,923 ballots issued to 14,893 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. Ahli Parlimen & ADUN (Bahagian Serian), Pentadbiran Bahagian Serian (accessed 8 November 2026)
  5. Alamat Pusat Khidmat MP & ADUN di Bahagian Serian, Pentadbiran Bahagian Serian (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. 11th Sarawak Election: Full official results, New Straits Times, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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