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my.sabah.n42 N42 · State assembly · Sabah

N42 Melalap is a state assembly seat in Sabah, last contested in 2025. Jamawi Jaafar (PKR, PH) won the state election on 29 Nov 2025 with 5,064 votes, a majority of 525.

Results

State election, 29 Nov 2025

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Jamawi Jaafar wonPKR, PH5,06433.8%
Priscella PeterKDM4,53930.3%
Gabriel George TulasIndependent2,87919.2%
Junik BajitUPKO1,70211.4%
Cheld Bryend LindWARISAN4483.0%
Alviana LinusSTARSABAH, GBS2711.8%
Fatimah IbrahimIndependent590.4%
Kevin ChongIMPIAN210.1%

Majority 525. Turnout 71.1%: 15,154 ballots from 21,320 voters, 135 rejected.

State election, 26 Sep 2020

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Peter Kodou @ Peter Anthony Kodou wonWARISAN, WARISAN+5,24550.2%
Jamawi JaafarUMNO, GRS3,52633.7%
Radin MallehPBS, GRS1,35913.0%
Apiang SausunPCS2682.6%
Sazali JustiUSNO320.3%
Masdin TumasLDP230.2%

Majority 1,719.

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.n42
Current nameMelalap
Former namesLahad Datu · Nabawan · Sungai Sibuga — also matched, at lower confidence
Last seen2025
Total mentions29
Mentioned as
  • dun melalap17
  • melalap12
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Covered by
  • Astro Awani4
  • Sinar Harian4
  • Sabah Media3
  • Nabalu News2
  • Suara Keadilan2
  • Utusan Borneo2
…and 11 more outlets.

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