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 Samalaju 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]

11,255 valid votes · 171 rejected · 25 unreturned · 11,451 ballots issued of 17,981 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
Majang anak RenggiDATO MAJANG ANAK RENGGIGPSPRS

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.217 Bintulu [1] [3]
  • Division: Bintulu (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. Sibiew Similajau 217/70/01
  2. Tanjung Kidurong 217/70/02
  3. Suai 217/70/03
  4. Melor 217/70/04
  5. Mawar 217/70/05
  6. RPR Kidurong 217/70/06
  7. Lkts Suai 217/70/07

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Samalaju (N.70) is one of the state seats in the Bintulu Division. 4 Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, it was one of four state seats inside the Bintulu parliamentary seat (P.217), together with Jepak, Tanjong Batu and Kemena. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists seven polling districts: Sibiew Similajau, Tanjung Kidurong, Suai, Melor, Mawar, RPR Kidurong and Lkts Suai. 5

At the 2016 state election, Majang Renggi of PRS won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 6

At the election on 18 December 2021, Majang anak Renggi of PRS, standing under the GPS logo, won with 7,547 votes. 1 2 Tonny Ung of DAP came second with 1,504 votes. 1 Reggie anak Suel of PSB received 1,496 votes, Leighton anak Manjah of PBK received 509 votes and Baba anak Emperan of PBDSB received 199 votes. 1 The majority was 6,043 votes, the 73rd smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 63.7%, with 11,451 ballots issued to 17,981 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. 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. 2016 Sarawak Election – Results, Free Malaysia Today, 7 May 2016 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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