| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Dato Sri |
| Fatimah Abdullah | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | PNBS PGBK MLA |
| Birth Date: | 1 February 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Dalat, Crown Colony of Sarawak (now Sarawak, Malaysia) |
| Office2: | Ministerial roles (Sarawak) |
| Subterm2: | 2011– |
| Suboffice2: | Minister of Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development |
| Office6: | Faction represented in Sarawak State Legislative Assembly |
| Subterm6: | 2001–2018 |
| Suboffice6: | Barisan Nasional |
| Subterm8: | 2018 |
| Suboffice8: | Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu |
| Subterm7: | 2018– |
| Suboffice7: | Gabungan Parti Sarawak |
| Citizenship: | Malaysian |
| Party: | Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) |
| Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional (BN) Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) Perikatan Nasional (PN) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Spouse: | Adi Badozaman Tuah |
| Children: | 2 |
| Website: | Official Facebook |
| Birth Name: | Ting Sai Ming |
Fatimah Abdullah (born Ting Sai Ming; 1 February 1957) is a Malaysian politician from the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), a component party of the ruling Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) coalition. She has served as the State Minister of Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development of Sarawak under Chief Ministers Abang Abdul Rahman Johari Abang Openg, Adenan Satem and Abdul Taib Mahmud since September 2011 as well as [1] [2] and Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Dalat since September 2001.
Fatimah hails from Kampung Teh in Dalat, Sarawak.[3] Her father is a Foochow Chinese and her mother is a Melanau. She was brought up a Muslim by her maternal grandmother.[4] She is married to Datu Dr. Adi Badiozaman Tuah, a social activist and the Director of the Sarawak Islamic Council of Educational Services Bureau. Together they have two children.[5] [6]
Fatimah is an educationist. She was a former principal of Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Puteri Wilayah in Kuala Lumpur.[3]
Fatimah's candidacy for the post of Women's Chief in the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), a component party of the ruling GPS coalition, was unopposed after Empiang Jabu Anak Antak stepped down in 2018.[7] Fatimah, from the Bumiputera wing, takes over from Empiang, who is from the Pesaka wing.
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Oppoenent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | N44 Dalat, Sarawak | (PBB) | 7,497 | 88.51% | Peter Nari Dina (IND) | 973 | 11.49% | 8,660 | 6,524 | 62.82% | ||||
| 2006 | N50 Dalat, Sarawak | (PBB) | Unopposed | |||||||||||
| 2011 | (PBB) | 6,288 | 80.17% | Sylvester Ajah Subah @ Ajah Bin Subah (PKR) | 1,298 | 16.55% | 8,069 | 4,990 | 68.05% | |||||
| Salleh Mahali (IND) | 257 | 3.28% | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | N56 Dalat, Sarawak | (PBB) | 7,107 | 90.14% | Sim Eng Hua (PKR) | 777 | 9.86% | 8,080 | 6,330 | 70.63% | ||||
| Fatimah Abdullah (PBB) | 7,085 | 93.90% | Salleh Mahali (PBK) | 460 | 6.10% | 7,657 | 6,625 | 61.24% | ||||||