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 Belaga 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]

5,037 valid votes · 40 rejected · 19 unreturned · 5,096 ballots issued of 8,003 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
Liwan LagangLIWAN LAGANGGPSPRS

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.216 Hulu Rajang [1] [3]
  • Division: Kapit / Bintulu (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4] [5]

Polling districts (7)

As listed by the Election Commission in its October 2022 polling-hours notice, with the EC's district codes. [6]

  1. Data Kakus 216/65/01
  2. Merit 216/65/02
  3. Ba 216/65/03
  4. Belaga 216/65/04
  5. Long Busang 216/65/05
  6. Long Bangan 216/65/06
  7. Long Semutut 216/65/07

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Belaga (N.65) is listed among the state seats of both the Kapit and Bintulu Divisions. 4 5 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 Baleh and Murum. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists seven polling districts: Data Kakus, Merit, Ba, Belaga, Long Busang, Long Bangan and Long Semutut. 6

At the 2016 state election, Liwan Lagang of PRS won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 7

At the election on 18 December 2021, Liwan Lagang of PRS, standing under the GPS logo, won with 3,552 votes. 1 2 Henry Usat Bit of PSB came second with 1,307 votes. 1 John Bampa of PBK received 97 votes and Siki Balarik, an independent, received 81 votes. 1 The majority was 2,245 votes, the 29th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 63.7%, with 5,096 ballots issued to 8,003 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. Latar Belakang Bintulu, Pentadbiran Bahagian Bintulu (accessed 8 November 2026)
  6. 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)
  7. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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