Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dato' Seri |
Chor Chee Heung | |
Office: | Minister of Housing and Local Government |
Term Start: | 4 June 2010 |
Term End: | 15 May 2013 |
Primeminister: | Najib Razak |
Constituency: | Alor Setar |
Office2: | Deputy Minister of Finance II |
Term Start2: | 10 April 2009 |
Term End2: | 4 June 2010 |
Monarch2: | Mizan Zainal Abidin |
Primeminister2: | Najib Razak |
Constituency2: | Alor Setar |
Office3: | Deputy Minister of Home Affairs II |
Term Start3: | 19 March 2008 |
Term End3: | 9 April 2009 |
Monarch3: | Mizan Zainal Abidin |
Primeminister3: | Abdullah Ahmad Badawi |
Minister3: | Syed Hamid Albar |
Constituency3: | Alor Setar |
Office4: | Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Transport |
Term Start4: | 1995 |
Term End4: | 1999 |
Monarch4: | Ja'afar Salahuddin |
Primeminister4: | Mahathir Mohamad |
Minister4: | Ling Liong Sik |
1Blankname4: | Deputy Minister |
Predecessor4: | Mohamed Ujang |
Successor4: | Donald Lim Siang Chai |
Constituency4: | Alor Star |
Office9: | Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat |
Subterm9: | 1990–2013 |
Suboffice9: | Barisan Nasional |
Birth Date: | 15 March 1955 |
Party: | Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) |
Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional (BN) Perikatan Nasional (PN) |
Occupation: | Politician |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Spouse: | Puan Sri Datin Seri Cheong Guek Mee |
Children: | 3 |
Alma Mater: | City University London Master's degree (Business Law) |
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Chor Chee Heung (; born 15 March 1955) is a Malaysian politician and was the Member of Parliament of Malaysia for the Alor Setar constituency in Kedah, Malaysia from 21 October 1990 to 5 May 2013. He was a member of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) in the then-governing Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition and was the Minister for Housing and Local Government.[1]
Chor was elected to the Alor Setar constituency in 1990.[2] He retained the seat in the 2008 election by 184 votes, before being defeated in the 2013 election.[3] In June 2010, he was promoted to Minister of Housing and Local Government. He had previously been a Deputy Minister,[4] and had served in various Parliamentary Secretary and Deputy Minister positions since 1995.[5]
Chor was a MCA Vice President.
Chor was born in Alor Setar. Before entering politics, he was a lawyer.[5] He is married with 3 children.
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
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1990 | P007 Alor Setar | (MCA) | 22,714 | 54.48% | Tengku Mohammad Farris (S46) | 17,579 | 42.16% | 41,695 | 5,135 | 70.50 | ||||
1995 | P009 Alor Star | (MCA) | 28,943 | 69.07% | Tunku Sofia Md Jewa (S46) | 11,278 | 26.91% | 41,904 | 17,665 | 67.93% | ||||
1999 | (MCA) | 27,847 | 63.96% | George John K. M. George (DAP) | 13,258 | 30.45% | 43,538 | 14,589 | 68.37% | |||||
2004 | (MCA) | 28,379 | 65.61% | Siti Nor Abdul Hamid (PKR) | 13,864 | 32.05% | 43,257 | 14,515 | 75.48% | |||||
2008 | (MCA) | 20,741 | 48.00% | Gooi Hsiao-Leung (PKR) | 20,557 | 47.58% | 43,206 | 184 | 73.28% | |||||
2013 | Chor Chee Heung (MCA) | 25,401 | 43.86% | (PKR) | 27,364 | 47.25% | 57,912 | 1,873 | 83.92% | |||||
(BERJASA) | 3,530 | 6.23% | ||||||||||||
Jawahar Raja Abdul Wahid (BERSAMA) | 257 | 0.45% |