Yansen Tipa Padan Demokrat Wempi Wellem Mawa [id] Demokrat The 2020 Malinau regency election was held on 9 December 2020 to elect both regent and vice-regent of Malinau Regency for the 2021–2024 term.

The election was held alongside simultaneous local elections across Indonesia.

The incumbent regent, Yansen Tipa Padan, was ineligible to run for re-election, instead he was elected vice governor of North Kalimantan under Governor Zainal Arifin Paliwang in the concurrent gubernatorial election.

In total, three candidates were on the ballot.

Wempi Wellem Mawa [id] of the Democratic Party was elected regent, defeating Jhonny Laing Impang [id] of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle and Martin Labo of Golkar.