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 Katibas 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]

6,496 valid votes · 109 rejected · 24 unreturned · 6,629 ballots issued of 10,530 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
Lidam anak AssanLIDAM ANAK ASSANGPSPBB

Location

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

Polling districts (7)

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

  1. Manap 215/62/01
  2. Temelat 215/62/02
  3. Song 215/62/03
  4. Katibas 215/62/04
  5. Tapang 215/62/05
  6. Bangkit 215/62/06
  7. Tekalit 215/62/07

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Katibas (N.62) 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 Pelagus and Bukit Goram. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists seven polling districts: Manap, Temelat, Song, Katibas, Tapang, Bangkit and Tekalit. 5

At the 2016 state election, Ambrose Blikau Enturan of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Lidam anak Assan of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 4,198 votes. 1 2 Robertson Mawa of PSB came second with 1,201 votes. 1 Munan anak Laja of PKR received 763 votes, Yunus bin Basri of PBK received 149 votes, Tengku anak Gruna, an independent, received 123 votes and Sai ak Malaka of PBDSB received 62 votes. 1 The majority was 2,997 votes, the 38th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 63.0%, with 6,629 ballots issued to 10,530 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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