election.my
Malaysian election news index

Tanjong Papat

my.sabah.n56 N56 · State assembly · Sabah

N56 Tanjong Papat is a state assembly seat in Sabah, last contested in 2025. Thien Ching Qiang (WARISAN) won the state election on 29 Nov 2025 with 3,254 votes, a majority of 727.

Results

State election, 29 Nov 2025

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Thien Ching Qiang wonWARISAN3,25435.1%
Poon Ming Fung @ FrankieKDM2,52727.3%
Tang Szu ChingDAP, PH2,24124.2%
Mohd Yunus ApilPERJUANGAN6597.1%
Koa Wei YangGERAKAN, PN2402.6%
Jainudin BerahimIMPIAN1491.6%
Sohaimi RamliPKS961.0%
Henley Liew Yun YeSAPP, GBS931.0%

Majority 727. Turnout 56.3%: 9,433 ballots from 16,767 voters, 164 rejected.

State election, 26 Sep 2020

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Poon Ming Fung @ Frankie wonDAP, WARISAN+5,90068.0%
Ken YongSAPP, GRS2,15724.9%
Mohd Yunus ApilUSNO3454.0%
Noraini SulongIndependent981.1%
Chung Yu SengPCS790.9%
Lam Jin DakLDP620.7%
Jamal AliPPRS350.4%

Majority 3,743.

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.n56
Current nameTanjong Papat
Former namesApas — also matched, at lower confidence
Last seen2025
Total mentions11
Mentioned as
  • dun tanjong papat4
  • tanjong papat3
  • adun tanjong papat2
  • dun tanjung papat1
  • tanjung papat1
The publisher's wording, with how often each string resolved here. The registry holds one spelling; the press uses many, and closing that gap is what the alias work is.
Covered by
  • Nabalu News3
  • Astro Awani2
  • Jesselton Times2
  • Free Malaysia Today1
  • The Malaysian Reserve1
  • Utusan Borneo Online1
…and 1 more outlet.

Coverage