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 Lambir 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]

Notes on this seat's data: The MECo research dataset gives different candidate votes (Ripin Lamat 6,974; Lila Mohamad 1,184; majority 5,790). The official gazette, used here, gives 6,860 / 1,298 / 5,562, and its figures are internally consistent.

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]

10,086 valid votes · 109 rejected · 60 unreturned · 10,255 ballots issued of 19,907 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
Ripin LamatDR RIPIN LAMATGPSPBB

Location

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

Polling districts (7)

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

  1. Peninjau 218/72/01
  2. Satap 218/72/02
  3. Bakam 218/72/03
  4. Lambir 218/72/04
  5. Airport 218/72/05
  6. Tukau 218/72/06
  7. Ramd 218/72/07

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Lambir (N.72) was one of two state seats inside the Sibuti parliamentary seat (P.218), together with Bekenu. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists seven polling districts: Peninjau, Satap, Bakam, Lambir, Airport, Tukau and Ramd. 4

At the 2016 state election, Ripin Lamat won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, Ripin Lamat of PBB, standing under the GPS logo, won with 6,860 votes. 1 2 Lila binti Mohamad of PSB came second with 1,298 votes. 1 Zulhaidah Suboh of PKR received 1,139 votes and Dyanne Oshield anak Nickson of PBK received 789 votes. 1 The majority was 5,562 votes, the 67th smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 51.5%, with 10,255 ballots issued to 19,907 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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