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Merotai

my.sabah.n72 N72 · State assembly · Sabah

N72 Merotai is a state assembly seat in Sabah, last contested in 2025. Sarifuddin Hata (WARISAN) won the state election on 29 Nov 2025 with 8,855 votes, a majority of 4,016.

Results

State election, 29 Nov 2025

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Sarifuddin Hata wonWARISAN8,85558.2%
Ruji UbiPKR, PH4,83931.8%
Hasan HarisPAS, PN1,2888.5%
Rhyme @ Reymie KassimIMPIAN2311.5%

Majority 4,016. Turnout 58.9%: 15,411 ballots from 26,179 voters, 160 rejected.

State election, 26 Sep 2020

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Sarifuddin Hata wonWARISAN, WARISAN+4,05847.8%
Mohamad Jalani ChachuPPBM, GRS2,47129.1%
Liew Yun FahHR1,77921.0%
Abdullah PalilePCS861.0%
Hafeezatul Halimah MohamadUSNO600.7%
Shim Nyat YunLDP300.4%

Majority 1,587.

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.n72
Current nameMerotai
Last seen2025
Total mentions19
Mentioned as
  • dun merotai15
  • merotai3
  • kerusi dun merotai1
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Covered by
  • Berita Harian3
  • Berita PAS2
  • Buletin TV32
  • Jesselton Times2
  • Astro Awani1
  • Harian Metro1
…and 8 more outlets.

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