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 Bukit Goram 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]

6,213 valid votes · 111 rejected · 56 unreturned · 6,380 ballots issued of 12,150 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
Jefferson Jamit anak UnyatJEFFERSON JAMIT ANAK UNYATGPSPBB

Location

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

Polling districts (8)

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

  1. Sungai Kapit 215/63/01
  2. Kapit 215/63/02
  3. Menuan 215/63/03
  4. Ibau 215/63/04
  5. Kampung Baru 215/63/05
  6. Selirik 215/63/06
  7. Sibau 215/63/07
  8. Entangai 215/63/08

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Bukit Goram (N.63) 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 Katibas. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists eight polling districts: Sungai Kapit, Kapit, Menuan, Ibau, Kampung Baru, Selirik, Sibau and Entangai. 5

At the 2016 state election, Jefferson Jamit Unyat of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Jefferson Jamit anak Unyat of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 4,253 votes. 1 2 Joseph Jinggut of DAP came second with 715 votes. 1 Robert Segie of PSB received 689 votes, Puso bin Bujang of PBK received 297 votes and Robert Saweng of PBDSB received 259 votes. 1 The majority was 3,538 votes, the 46th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 52.5%, with 6,380 ballots issued to 12,150 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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