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 Kakus 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]

10,137 valid votes · 122 rejected · 21 unreturned · 10,280 ballots issued of 14,416 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
John Sikie TayaiDATUK JOHN SIKIE TAYAIGPSPRS

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.214 Selangau [1] [3]
  • Division: Bintulu (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (25)

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

  1. Bawan 214/60/01
  2. Arip 214/60/02
  3. Tatau-Buan 214/60/03
  4. Kakus 214/60/04
  5. Anap 214/60/05
  6. Tatau 214/60/06
  7. Lubok Kumpai 214/60/07
  8. Bekiran 214/60/08
  9. Tekalit 214/60/09
  10. Rungan 214/60/10
  11. Giri 214/60/11
  12. Kelebu 214/60/12
  13. Entajum 214/60/13
  14. Ulu Sangan 214/60/14
  15. Sangan 214/60/15
  16. Penyarai 214/60/16
  17. Kulau Belungai 214/60/17
  18. Muput 214/60/18
  19. Pasir Nangka 214/60/19
  20. Nanga Empang 214/60/20
  21. Kana 214/60/21
  22. Setusor 214/60/22
  23. Tau 214/60/23
  24. Takan 214/60/24
  25. Annau 214/60/25

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Kakus (N.60) is one of the state seats in the Bintulu Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of two state seats inside the Selangau parliamentary seat (P.214), together with Tamin. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists 25 polling districts. 5

At the 2016 state election, John Sikie Tayai of PRS won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, John Sikie Tayai of PRS, standing under the GPS logo, won with 5,307 votes. 1 2 Peter anak Tuan of PSB came second with 3,410 votes. 1 Ugik anak Selipeh, an independent, received 546 votes, Joshua Jabeng of PKR received 375 votes, Philip Kelanang Diung of PBK received 337 votes and Tiun anak Kanun, an independent, received 162 votes. 1 The majority was 1,897 votes, the 25th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 71.3%, with 10,280 ballots issued to 14,416 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. Latar Belakang Bintulu, Pentadbiran Bahagian Bintulu (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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