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Tambunan

my.sabah.n39 N39 · State assembly · Sabah

N39 Tambunan is a state assembly seat in Sabah, last contested in 2025. Gapari @ Geoffrey Katingan @ Kitingan (STARSABAH, GBS) won the state election on 29 Nov 2025 with 12,595 votes, a majority of 7,311.

Results

State election, 29 Nov 2025

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Gapari @ Geoffrey Katingan @ Kitingan wonSTARSABAH, GBS12,59565.8%
Victor P PautGAGASAN, GRS5,28427.6%
Bianus KontongWARISAN7383.9%
Jikol TaguaKDM2421.3%
Dionysia GinsosANAK_NEGERI1510.8%
Gulit RukagSPP680.4%
Kenneth Edwin NIMPIAN660.3%

Majority 7,311. Turnout 66.2%: 19,308 ballots from 29,187 voters, 144 rejected.

State election, 26 Sep 2020

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Gapari @ Geoffrey Katingan @ Kitingan wonSTAR, GRS8,69175.2%
Laurentius Nayan AmbuUPKO, WARISAN+1,89916.4%
Silverius BrunoPBS, GRS4393.8%
Damian Marcus PodtungPCS3262.8%
Nordin Jaini @ ZainiGAGASAN1401.2%
Jimmy PalikatIndependent600.5%

Majority 6,792.

Source: Election Commission of Malaysia (SPR). Figures from GE15 (November 2022) on are SPR's own, read from dashboard.spr.gov.my; earlier contests are SPR's published results as held in our records.

Canonical idmy.sabah.n39
Current nameTambunan
Former namesSugut · Sukau · Tenom — also matched, at lower confidence
Last seen2025
Total mentions18
Mentioned as
  • Tambunan9
  • dun tambunan5
  • kerusi dun tambunan2
  • tenom2
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Covered by
  • Jesselton Times3
  • Sinar Harian3
  • Utusan Borneo2
  • bharian.com.my2
  • jesseltontimes.com2
  • Berita Harian1
…and 5 more outlets.

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