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 Pakan 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]

7,945 valid votes · 98 rejected · 16 unreturned · 8,059 ballots issued of 11,154 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
William IkomWILLIAM IKOMGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.209 Julau [1] [3]
  • Division: Not yet sourced

Polling districts (6)

As listed by the Election Commission in its October 2022 polling-hours notice, with the EC's district codes. [4]

  1. Bayong 209/47/01
  2. Sungai Rusa 209/47/02
  3. Babai 209/47/03
  4. Lamujan 209/47/04
  5. Wuak 209/47/05
  6. Dayu 209/47/06

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Pakan (N.47) was one of two state seats inside the Julau parliamentary seat (P.209), together with Meluan. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists six polling districts: Bayong, Sungai Rusa, Babai, Lamujan, Wuak and Dayu. 4

At the 2016 state election, William Mawan Ikom won the seat as a direct Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, William Ikom of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 3,268 votes. 1 2 Tedong ak Chakaw, an independent, came second with 2,554 votes. 1 Hereward Gramong anak Joseph Allen of PSB received 1,484 votes, Brawi Anguong, an independent, received 506 votes and Jemeli anak Kerah of PBK received 133 votes. 1 The majority was 714 votes, the ninth smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 72.3%, with 8,059 ballots issued to 11,154 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. 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)
  5. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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