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 Layar 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]

5,743 valid votes · 110 rejected · 43 unreturned · 5,896 ballots issued of 9,334 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
Gerald Rentap JabuGERALD RENTAP JABUGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.204 Betong [1] [3]
  • Division: Betong (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (28)

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

  1. Spak 204/36/01
  2. Padeh 204/36/02
  3. Bebanggai 204/36/03
  4. Betong 204/36/04
  5. Kampung Betong 204/36/05
  6. Lubau 204/36/06
  7. Penyalaneh 204/36/07
  8. Jelau 204/36/08
  9. Melanjan 204/36/09
  10. Tapeh 204/36/10
  11. Luing 204/36/11
  12. Krapa 204/36/12
  13. Teguyu 204/36/13
  14. Perdu 204/36/14
  15. Dabok 204/36/15
  16. Gawis 204/36/16
  17. Balingam 204/36/17
  18. Kron 204/36/18
  19. Plepok 204/36/19
  20. Merunjau 204/36/20
  21. Entanak 204/36/21
  22. Saka 204/36/22
  23. Penurin 204/36/23
  24. Tanu 204/36/24
  25. Jugir 204/36/25
  26. Pasa 204/36/26
  27. Selulap 204/36/27
  28. Stambak 204/36/28

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Layar (N.36) is one of the state seats in the Betong Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of three state seats inside the Betong parliamentary seat (P.204), together with Saribas and Bukit Saban. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists 28 polling districts. 5

At the 2016 state election, Gerald Rentap Jabu of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Gerald Rentap Jabu of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 3,891 votes. 1 2 Isik anak Utau of PSB came second with 1,852 votes. 1 The majority was 2,039 votes, the 27th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 63.2%, with 5,896 ballots issued to 9,334 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 Dewan Undangan Negeri Bahagian Betong, Pentadbiran Bahagian Betong (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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