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 Tellian 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]

6,108 valid votes · 79 rejected · 18 unreturned · 6,205 ballots issued of 10,059 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
Royston bin ValentineROYSTON BIN VALENTINEGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.213 Mukah [1] [3]
  • Division: Mukah (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (15)

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

  1. Baoh 213/57/01
  2. Penat 213/57/02
  3. Sebakong 213/57/03
  4. Ulu Baoh 213/57/04
  5. Dijih 213/57/05
  6. Ulu Sikat 213/57/06
  7. Nanga Sikat 213/57/07
  8. Engkerbai 213/57/08
  9. Petanak Mukah 213/57/09
  10. Tellian 213/57/10
  11. Judan 213/57/11
  12. Kuala Lama 213/57/12
  13. Tellian Laut 213/57/13
  14. Mukah 213/57/14
  15. Penakop Permai 213/57/15

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Tellian (N.57) is one of the state seats in the Mukah Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of three state seats inside the Mukah parliamentary seat (P.213), together with Dalat and Balingian. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists 15 polling districts: Baoh, Penat, Sebakong, Ulu Baoh, Dijih, Ulu Sikat, Nanga Sikat, Engkerbai, Petanak Mukah, Tellian, Judan, Kuala Lama, Tellian Laut, Mukah and Penakop Permai. 5

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

At the election on 18 December 2021, Royston bin Valentine of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 4,282 votes. 1 2 Sait bin Junaidi of PSB came second with 1,365 votes. 1 Arwin Lim Abdullah of PKR received 287 votes and Zainuddin bin Budug of PBK received 174 votes. 1 The majority was 2,917 votes, the 36th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 61.7%, with 6,205 ballots issued to 10,059 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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