[3] Formerly a part of the town of Upi, Datu Blah T. Sinsuat became another municipality after a plebiscite on July 15, 2006, and pursuant to the Muslim Mindanao Act No.

[5] On October 28, it became a new municipality of the newly created Shariff Kabunsuan province until its nullification by the Supreme Court in July 2008.

This municipality is named after Datu Blah T. Sinsuat (1908-1981), Maguindanao's delegate to the 1935 Constitutional Convention and Cotabato's Lone District Representative to the 2nd Congress of the Philippines.

Datu Blah T. Sinsuat is politically subdivided into 13 barangays.

Poverty Incidence of Datu Blah T. Sinsuat Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[11][12][13][14][15][16] The Gross Domestic Product of the Municipality (2022) is 9,729,000,000(PHP).