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 Piasau 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]

10,194 valid votes · 59 rejected · 23 unreturned · 10,276 ballots issued of 21,377 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
Sebastian Ting Chiew YewSEBASTIAN TING CHIEW YEWGPSSUPP

Location

  • Part of parliamentary seat P.219 Miri [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. Kubu 219/73/01
  2. Bazaar 219/73/02
  3. Merbau 219/73/03
  4. Merpati 219/73/04
  5. Permaisuri 219/73/05
  6. Bintang 219/73/06
  7. Lutong 219/73/07
  8. Tanjong 219/73/08
  9. Luak 219/73/09

The story

Review status: fact-checked and approved.

Under the 2015 boundaries used at the 2021 election, Piasau (N.73) was one of three state seats inside the Miri parliamentary seat (P.219), together with Pujut and Senadin. 3 The Election Commission's October 2022 polling-hours notice lists nine polling districts: Kubu, Bazaar, Merbau, Merpati, Permaisuri, Bintang, Lutong, Tanjong and Luak. 4

At the 2016 state election, Sebastian Ting won the seat as a Barisan Nasional candidate. 5

At the election on 18 December 2021, Sebastian Ting Chiew Yew of SUPP, standing under the GPS logo, won with 6,790 votes. 1 2 Peter Hee of DAP came second with 1,802 votes. 1 Teo Jia Jun of PSB received 816 votes, Chung Siew Yen of PBK received 665 votes and Hanim binti Jaraee of ASPIRASI received 121 votes. 1 The majority was 4,988 votes, the 61st smallest of the 82 seats. 1 Turnout was 48.1%, with 10,276 ballots issued to 21,377 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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