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 Semop 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]

6,717 valid votes · 109 rejected · 36 unreturned · 6,862 ballots issued of 10,297 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
Abdullah bin SaidolABDULLAH BIN SAIDOLGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.206 Tanjong Manis [1] [3]
  • Division: Mukah (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (8)

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

  1. Paloh 206/42/01
  2. Mupong 206/42/02
  3. Semop 206/42/03
  4. Saai 206/42/04
  5. Tekajong 206/42/05
  6. Bruit 206/42/06
  7. Bunut 206/42/07
  8. Bintangor 206/42/08

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Semop (N.42) is one of the state seats in the Mukah Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of two state seats inside the Tanjong Manis parliamentary seat (P.206), together with Kuala Rajang. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists eight polling districts: Paloh, Mupong, Semop, Saai, Tekajong, Bruit, Bunut and Bintangor. 5

At the 2016 state election, Abdullah Saidol of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Abdullah bin Saidol of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 4,338 votes. 1 2 Abdul Raafidin bin Majidi of PSB came second with 1,180 votes. 1 Mohd Adenan bin Zulkeppli, an independent, received 811 votes, Fadillah Sabali of AMANAH received 270 votes and Jenny Wong Khing Ling of PBK received 118 votes. 1 The majority was 3,158 votes, the 40th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 66.6%, with 6,862 ballots issued to 10,297 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. Politik (Bahagian Mukah), Pentadbiran Bahagian Mukah (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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