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 Bekenu 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]

7,984 valid votes · 140 rejected · 48 unreturned · 8,172 ballots issued of 12,674 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
Rosey Haji YunusDATUK HAJAH ROSEY HAJI YUNUSGPSPBB

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.218 Sibuti [1] [3]
  • Division: Not yet sourced

Polling districts (9)

As listed by the Election Commission in its October 2022 polling-hours notice, with the EC's district codes. [4]

  1. Batu Niah 218/71/01
  2. Niah 218/71/02
  3. Saeh 218/71/03
  4. Kelulit 218/71/04
  5. Tiris 218/71/05
  6. Bungai 218/71/06
  7. Bekanu 218/71/07
  8. Bakas 218/71/08
  9. Hulu Sibuti 218/71/09

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Bekenu (N.71) was one of two state seats inside the Sibuti parliamentary seat (P.218), together with Lambir. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists nine polling districts: Batu Niah, Niah, Saeh, Kelulit, Tiris, Bungai, Bekanu, Bakas and Hulu Sibuti. 4

At the 2016 state election, Rosey Yunus won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, Rosey Haji Yunus of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 6,354 votes. 1 2 Norhafizah Joharie of PKR came second with 957 votes. 1 Abu Bakar bin Amit of PSB received 377 votes and Desmond Gani of PBK received 296 votes. 1 The majority was 5,397 votes, the 66th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 64.5%, with 8,172 ballots issued to 12,674 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. 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)
  5. 349 candidates to vie for 82 seats in Sarawak, Free Malaysia Today, 6 December 2021 (accessed 8 November 2026)

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