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Sulaman

a state constituency in Sabah, Malaysia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ55634187 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sulaman is a state constituency in Sabah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Sabah State Legislative Assembly. It is mandated to return a single member to the Assembly under the first-past-the-post voting system.

Demographics

As of 2020, Sulaman has a population of 30,088 people.

History

Polling districts

According to the gazette issued on 31 October 2022, the Sulaman constituency has a total of 7 polling districts.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Sulaman” as a state constituency in Sabah, Malaysia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sulaman, state and constituency.

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—2020, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sulaman, state and constituency providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Sulaman”, the useful work is to connect “a state constituency in Sabah, Malaysia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55634187. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2022.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sulaman” 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.