| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima |
| Chong Kah Kiat | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-my |
| Office: | Minister in the Prime Minister's Department |
| Primeminister: | Mahathir Mohamad |
| Term Start: | 4 May 1995 |
| Term End: | 13 March 1999 |
| Constituency: | Senator |
| Predecessor: | Bernard Giluk Dompok |
| Order1: | 13th |
| Office1: | Chief Minister of Sabah |
| Term Start1: | 27 March 2001 |
| Term End1: | 27 March 2003 |
| Governor1: | Sakaran Dandai Ahmadshah Abdullah |
| Predecessor1: | Osu Sukam |
| Successor1: | Musa Aman |
| Office2: | President of the Liberal Democratic Party |
| Term Start2: | 1991 |
| Term End2: | 2006 |
| Predecessor2: | Hiew Min Kong |
| Successor2: | Liew Vui Keong |
| Birth Name: | Chong Kah Kiat |
| Birth Date: | 2 June 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Kudat, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) |
| Party: | Sabah People's United Front (BERJAYA) Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) |
Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Chong Kah Kiat (; born 2 June 1948) is a Malaysian politician who served as Minister in the Prime Minister's Department from May 1995 to March 1999, 13th Chief Minister of Sabah from March 2001 to March 2003 and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 1991 to 2006.
Born in Kudat, Chong was a graduate of New Zealand's Victoria University of Wellington, earning a Master of Laws (LL.B.) (First Class) in 1975 and subsequently practising law at the legal firm of Shelley Yap Leong Tseu Chong Chia & Co. (now known as Shelley Yap) in Kota Kinabalu.
He contested and won the Kudat seat on a BERJAYA ticket in the March 1981 state election and was appointed Assistant Minister to the Chief Minister of Sabah the following year. He held the post until April 1985 when he lost the seat to Wong Phin Chung of United Sabah Party (PBS).
In March 1987, he became a member of the Berjaya Supreme Council but later left the party when it became clear that it was losing ground.
Chong and several Chinese leaders founded the LDP in 1989 and was made its pro-tem secretary general. Then in 1991, he became the party's president. He did not contest the 1994 state election but a year later was appointed Senator in the Dewan Negara, and subsequently included in the Cabinet of Malaysia as a Minister in the Prime Minister's Department. He quit the federal ministerial post in March 1999 to contest the state polls. This time, he won back his traditional stronghold of Kudat, and was appointed state minister of Tourism Development, Environment, Science and Technology.[1]
Chong became the 13th Chief Minister of Sabah in 2001 representing the Chinese community in a rotation system mooted by former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in 1994.
When Musa Aman took over the helm of the state government in 2003, Chong was appointed Deputy Chief Minister as well as the person in charge of the tourism, culture, and environment portfolio. It was then the rotation system was scrapped and from then onwards, the Chief Minister post was held by the United Malays National Organisation.
In April 2007, Chong resigned from the Deputy Chief Minister post under Musa Aman's cabinet, citing matters of principle.[2] [3]
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | N02 Kudat, P134 Merudu | Chong Kah Kiat (BERJAYA) | 3,489 | 44.20% | Wong Phin Chung (PBS) | 4,380 | 55.48% | 7,973 | 891 | 76.94% | |||
| Dingle Anthony (IND) | 25 | 0.32% | |||||||||||
| 1990 | Chong Kah Kiat (LDP) | 4,043 | 43.25% | Wong Phin Chung (PBS) | 4,667 | 49.92% | 9.459 | 624 | 75.01% | ||||
| Yong Sze Kiun (BERJAYA) | 309 | 3.31% | |||||||||||
| Lee Tain Soong (PRS) | 127 | 1.36% | |||||||||||
| Chong Jan Fah (DAP) | 94 | 1.01% | |||||||||||
| Gurahman Lolong (IND) | 60 | 0.64% | |||||||||||
| Wiilie Chong Kui Shen (AKAR) | 48 | 0.51% | |||||||||||
| 1999 | N02 Kudat, P146 Merudu | Chong Kah Kiat (LDP) | 6,935 | 53.48% | Kong Hong Ming (PBS) | 5,447 | 42.00% | 13,080 | 1,488 | 72.76% | |||
| Jimmy Wong Sze Phin (AKAR) | 481 | 3.71% | |||||||||||
| Yong Sze Kiun (SETIA) | 105 | 0.81% | |||||||||||
| 2004 | N02 Tanjong Kapor, P167 Kudat | Chong Kah Kiat (LDP) | 6,234 | 49.74% | Omar Mohd Aji (IND) | 3,241 | 25.86% | 12,865 | 2,993 | 69.40% | |||
| Kong Hong Ming' (IND) | 1,877 | 14.98% | |||||||||||
| Wong Phin Chung (IND) | 1,035 | 8.26% | |||||||||||
| Santong Angkap (BERSEKUTU) | 52 | 0.41% | |||||||||||
| Alexandra Anthony (keADILan) | 50 | 0.40% | |||||||||||
| Bensali Ebrahim (PASOK) | 44 | 0.35% | |||||||||||
| 2020 | N18 Inanam, P171 Sepanggar | Chong Kah Kiat (LDP) | 1,606 | 9.51% | Peto Galim (PKR) | 8,586 | 50.92% | 16,890 | 5,638 | 64.87% | |||
| William Majinbon (PBS) | 2,948 | 17.38% | |||||||||||
| Kenny Chua Teck Ho (IND) | 2,346 | 13.89% | |||||||||||
| bgcolor=blue | Francis Goh Fah Shun (GAGASAN) | 362 | 2.14% | ||||||||||
| How Regina Lim (PCS) | 291 | 1.72% | |||||||||||
| Achmad Noorasyrul Noortaip (IND) | 286 | 1.69% | |||||||||||
| Terence Tsen Kim Fatt (PKAN) | 255 | 1.51% | |||||||||||
| bgcolor= | Mohd Hardy Abdullah (USNO Baru) | 156 | 0.92% | ||||||||||
| George Ngui (IND) | 54 | 0.32% | |||||||||||