| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Datuk |
| Jamawi Ja'afar | |
| Native Name: | Malay: {{Script|Arab|جماوي جعفر |
| Assembly: | Sabah State Legislative |
| Constituency Am: | Kemabong |
| Predecessor: | Rubin Balang (BN–UMNO) |
| Successor: | Rubin Balang (Independent) |
| Term Start: | 9 May 2018 |
| Term End: | 26 September 2020 |
| Birth Name: | Jamawi bin Ja'afar |
| Birth Date: | 8 January 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Sabah |
| Citizenship: | Malaysian |
| Party: | United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) WARISAN Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN) |
| Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional Warisan Plus Coalition Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Office1: | Division Chairman of N42 Melalap Branch of Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah |
| Termstart1: | 2023 |
| President1: | Hajiji Noor |
Datuk Jamawi bin Ja'afar is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Sabah State Legislative Assembly for Kemabong from 2018 until 2020. He is a member of the Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah (GAGASAN), a component party of the Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) coalition and was a member of the United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO), a branch of a component party of the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition. He became the GAGASAN Division Chairman of Melalap Branch in March 2023.
He was the UMNO Youth Chief of Tenom Division and Youth Information Chief of UMNO.[1] He quit UMNO in 2018 and then later joined WARISAN with the reason to support Sabah local party. In 2020, he quit WARISAN because of PSS controversies and rejoined UMNO as alternative choices. After BN-UMNO lost many seats in the Malaysia General Election in November 2022, he decided to joining GRS through GRS direct membership constitution. In February 2023, he confirmed to support and joining Sabah local party GAGASAN, one of the major component party of GRS. In March 2023, he officially become the Division Chairman of Melalap branch. In October 17, 2023, he has confirmed that Tenom parliamentary branch of PGRS–GRS has successfully reached 5,000 membership.
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct. | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct. | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | P181 Tenom | Jamawi Ja'afar (UMNO) | 8,625 | 30.11% | Riduan Rubin (IND) | 10,027 | 35.00% | 28,649 | 1,108 | 68.14% | |||
| Noorita Sual (DAP) | 8,919 | 31.13% | |||||||||||
| Ukim Buandi (WARISAN) | 992 | 3.46% | |||||||||||
| Peggy Chaw Zhi Ting (IND) | 86 | 0.30% | |||||||||||
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct. | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct. | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | N43 Kemabong | Jamawi Ja'afar (UMNO) | 6,093 | 50.65% | Haris Bolos (WARISAN) | 5,198 | 43.21% | 12,030 | 862 | 84.93% | |||
| bgcolor= | Tay Jin Kiong @ Alfred (PCS) | 152 | 1.26% | ||||||||||
| bgcolor = | Yahia @ Yahya Raimah (PHRS) | 124 | 1.03% | ||||||||||
| 2020 | N42 Melalap | Jamawi Ja'afar (UMNO) | 3,526 | 33.25% | Peter Anthony (WARISAN) | 5,245 | 49.46% | 10,605 | 1,719 | 75.79% | |||
| bgcolor= | Radin Malleh (PBS) | 1,359 | 12.81% | ||||||||||
| bgcolor= | Apiang Sausun (PCS) | 268 | 2.53% | ||||||||||
| bgcolor = | Sazali Justi (USNO Baru) | 32 | 0.30% | ||||||||||
| bgcolor= | Masdin Tumas (LDP) | 23 | 0.22% | ||||||||||