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 Baleh 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]

5,725 valid votes · 90 rejected · 17 unreturned · 5,832 ballots issued of 10,137 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
Nicholas Kudi anak JantaiNICHOLAS KUDI ANAK JANTAIGPSPRS

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.216 Hulu Rajang [1] [3]
  • Division: Kapit (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (5)

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

  1. Gaat 216/64/01
  2. Mujong 216/64/02
  3. Melinau 216/64/03
  4. Baleh 216/64/04
  5. Merirai 216/64/05

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Baleh (N.64) 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 Hulu Rajang parliamentary seat (P.216), together with Belaga and Murum. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists five polling districts: Gaat, Mujong, Melinau, Baleh and Merirai. 5

At the 2016 state election, James Jemut Masing of PRS won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6 He represented the seat from 1983. 7

At the election on 18 December 2021, Nicholas Kudi anak Jantai of PRS, standing under the GPS logo, won with 3,541 votes. 1 2 Koh anak Kumbong of PSB came second with 1,632 votes. 1 Kenneth Usang George of DAP received 470 votes and Sukarno Layau of PBK received 82 votes. 1 The majority was 1,909 votes, the 26th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 57.5%, with 5,832 ballots issued to 10,137 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)
  7. James Masing dies at 72, Free Malaysia Today, 31 October 2021 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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