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Repok

state constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ25246275
Source-derived summary

Repok is a state constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly since 1969.

The state constituency was created in the 1968 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly under the first past the post voting system.

Demographics

History

As of 2020, Repok has a population of 24,175 people.

Polling districts

According to the gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Repok constituency has a total of 8 polling districts.

Representation history

Election results

References

"Keputusan Pilihan Raya Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya". Election Commission of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2016-04-30.

Editorial summary

“Repok” enters the record as state constituency in Sarawak, Malaysia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Repok, state and constituency can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969, 1968, 2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Repok, state and constituency.
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“Repok” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Repok, state and constituency provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q25246275. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1968, 2020 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from Repok” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.