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 Jepak 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]

9,039 valid votes · 146 rejected · 34 unreturned · 9,219 ballots issued of 14,643 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
Talib bin ZulpilipDATUK HAJI TALIB BIN ZULPILIPGPSPBB
Raba'ah binti TudinDR. RABA'AH BINTI TUDINPSBPSB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.217 Bintulu [1] [3]
  • Division: Bintulu (listed by the division's Resident's Office) [4]

Polling districts (6)

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

  1. Kuala Tatau 217/67/01
  2. Sri Dagang 217/67/02
  3. Jepak 217/67/03
  4. Segan 217/67/04
  5. Sungai Nyigu 217/67/05
  6. RPR Sebiew 217/67/06

Change since 2021

  • 15 September 2023: The sitting member, Talib Zulpilip, died on 15 September 2023, triggering a by-election. [6]
  • 4 November 2023: Iskandar Turkee, standing for GPS, won the Jepak by-election with a majority of 8,784. [7]

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Jepak (N.67) is one of the state seats in the Bintulu Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it lay within the Bintulu parliamentary constituency, P.217. 8 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists six polling districts: Kuala Tatau, Sri Dagang, Jepak, Segan, Sungai Nyigu and RPR Sebiew. 5

At the 2016 state election, Talib Zulpilip of PBB won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 9 He represented the seat from 1996. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Talib Zulpilip of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 6,277 votes. 1 2 Raba'ah binti Tudin of PSB came second with 2,034 votes. 1 Stevenson anak Joseph of PBK received 587 votes and Tuah Kazan, an independent, received 141 votes. 1 The majority was 4,243 votes, the 56th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 63.0%, with 9,219 ballots issued to 14,643 registered voters. 1

Talib Zulpilip died on 15 September 2023. 6 The Election Commission set polling for the by-election on 4 November 2023, using an electoral roll of 22,804 voters. 8 Iskandar Turkee, standing under the GPS logo, won with 9,638 votes, a majority of 8,784. 7 Stevenson Joseph Sumbang of PBK received 854 votes and Chieng Lea Phing of ASPIRASI received 431 votes. 7 The Election Commission put turnout at 48.57% when polls closed. 7

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. Latar Belakang Bintulu, Pentadbiran Bahagian Bintulu (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. Sarawak assembly Speaker will notify Election Commission of Jepak vacancy, Malay Mail, 15 September 2023 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  7. Official: GPS wins Jepak by landslide, The Star, 4 November 2023 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  8. EC sets Jepak state by-election on November 4, nomination on October 21, Malay Mail, 25 September 2023 (accessed 8 November 2026)
  9. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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