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 Ngemah 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]

6,907 valid votes · 97 rejected · 41 unreturned · 7,045 ballots issued of 9,853 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
Anyi anak JanaANYI ANAK JANAGPSPRS
Joseph Jawa anak KendawangDR JOSEPH JAWA ANAK KENDAWANGPSBPSB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.210 Kanowit [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. Kajah 210/49/01
  2. Bat 210/49/02
  3. Sengayan 210/49/03
  4. Mapai 210/49/04
  5. Bawan 210/49/05
  6. Pidai 210/49/06

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Ngemah (N.49) was one of two state seats inside the Kanowit parliamentary seat (P.210), together with Machan. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists six polling districts: Kajah, Bat, Sengayan, Mapai, Bawan and Pidai. 4

At the 2016 state election, Alexander Vincent of PRS won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, Anyi anak Jana of PRS, standing under the GPS logo, won with 3,193 votes. 1 2 Joseph Jawa anak Kendawang of PSB came second with 2,932 votes. 1 Leo anak Bunsu of PBDSB received 354 votes, Satu Anchom of PKR received 259 votes and Charlie anak Genam of PBK received 169 votes. 1 The majority was 261 votes, the fifth smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 71.5%, with 7,045 ballots issued to 9,853 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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