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 Pelagus 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]

5,051 valid votes · 89 rejected · 13 unreturned · 5,153 ballots issued of 7,894 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
Wilson Nyabong anak IjangWILSON NYABONG ANAK IJANGGPSPRS

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.215 Kapit [1] [3]
  • Division: Kapit (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (4)

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

  1. Pelagus 215/61/01
  2. Sungai Amang 215/61/02
  3. Nanga Peraran 215/61/03
  4. Sut 215/61/04

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Pelagus (N.61) is one of the state seats in the Kapit Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of three state seats inside the Kapit parliamentary seat (P.215), together with Katibas and Bukit Goram. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists four polling districts: Pelagus, Sungai Amang, Nanga Peraran and Sut. 5

At the 2016 state election, Wilsong Nyabong Ijang of PRS won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Wilson Nyabong anak Ijang of PRS, standing under the GPS logo, won with 2,843 votes. 1 2 Kristoffer Nyuak Bajok of PSB came second with 1,794 votes. 1 Solomon anak Kumbong of DAP received 250 votes, Nyambong anak Sibat of PBK received 88 votes and Moses anak Ripai of PBDSB received 76 votes. 1 The majority was 1,049 votes, the 15th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 65.3%, with 5,153 ballots issued to 7,894 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. Wakil Rakyat Bahagian Kapit, Pentadbiran Bahagian Kapit, 1 June 2024 (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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