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 Balingian 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]

5,694 valid votes · 84 rejected · 6 unreturned · 5,784 ballots issued of 8,704 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
Abdul Yakub bin ArbiABDUL YAKUB BIN ARBIGPSPBB

Location

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

Polling districts (14)

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

  1. Litong 213/58/01
  2. Penakop 213/58/02
  3. Temesu 213/58/03
  4. Balingian 213/58/04
  5. Tutus 213/58/05
  6. Jebungan 213/58/06
  7. Kenyana 213/58/07
  8. Sesok 213/58/08
  9. Ulu Bedengan 213/58/09
  10. Bedengan 213/58/10
  11. Penipah 213/58/11
  12. Kuala Balingian 213/58/12
  13. Suyong 213/58/13
  14. Liok 213/58/14

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Balingian (N.58) 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 Tellian. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists 14 polling districts: Litong, Penakop, Temesu, Balingian, Tutus, Jebungan, Kenyana, Sesok, Ulu Bedengan, Bedengan, Penipah, Kuala Balingian, Suyong and Liok. 5

At the 2016 state election, Abdul Yakub Arbi of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Abdul Yakub bin Arbi of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 4,050 votes. 1 2 Yusuf Abdul Rahman of PSB came second with 1,146 votes. 1 Abdul Jalil Bujang of PKR received 498 votes. 1 The majority was 2,904 votes, the 35th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 66.5%, with 5,784 ballots issued to 8,704 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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