Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berbahagia Dato' |
Loke Yuen Yow | |
Office1: | Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports |
Term Start1: | 8 May 1995 |
Term End1: | 14 December 1999 |
Monarch1: | Ja'afar Salahuddin |
Primeminister1: | Mahathir Mohamad |
Minister1: | Muhyiddin Yassin |
Predecessor1: | Teng Gaik Kwan |
Successor1: | Ong Tee Keat |
Constituency1: | Tanjong Malim |
Office2: | Deputy Minister of Finance II |
Term Start2: | 14 August 1989 |
Term End2: | 3 May 1995 |
Alongside2: | Wan Abu Bakar Wan Mohamad Abdul Ghani Othman Mustapa Mohamed |
Monarch2: | Azlan Shah Ja'afar |
Primeminister2: | Mahathir Mohamad |
Predecessor2: | Ng Cheng Kiat |
Successor2: | Wong See Wah |
Constituency2: | Tanjong Malim |
Constituency Mp3: | Tanjong Malim |
Parliament3: | Malaysian |
Term Start3: | 3 August 1986 |
Term End3: | 8 March 2008 |
Predecessor3: | Mak Hon Kam (BN–MCA) |
Successor3: | Ong Ka Chuan (BN–MCA) |
Majority3: | 10,698 (1986) 15,246 (1990) 20,664 (1995) 11,222 (1999) 14,693 (2004) |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1952 |
Nationality: | Malaysian |
Party: | Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) |
Otherparty: | Barisan Nasional (BN) |
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Dato' Loke Yuen Yow (born 10 September 1952) is a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Tanjong Malim from 1986 to 2008 and Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports during 1995–1999 in Mahathir Mohamad cabinet. His biggest achievement in Ministry of Youth and Sports is the organization of 1998 Commonwealth Games led by the minister Muhyiddin Yassin.[1]
He proposed to the then Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak to establish a second Prime Minister post and appoint a Malaysian Chinese for the post as a sign of sharing power in 2009. At that time, he was a Minister in the Prime Minister Department and also the Secretary General of Malaysian Chinese Association.[2]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballot cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
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1986 | P071 Tanjong Malim, Perak | (MCA) | 18,693 | 62.65% | Liew Fatt Yuen (DAP) | 7,995 | 26.80% | 29,836 | 10,698 | 69.45% | |||
Ho Shing Chong @ Ghazali Ho (PAS) | 2,464 | 8.26% | |||||||||||
1990 | (MCA) | 23,953 | 70.54% | Abdul Rahim Mat Taib (DAP) | 8,707 | 25.64% | 33,956 | 15,246 | 69.82% | ||||
1995 | P074 Tanjong Malim, Perak | (MCA) | 25,752 | 80.70% | Wan Mokhtar Wan Endut (S46) | 5,088 | 15.94% | 31,910 | 20,664 | 60.90% | |||
1999 | (MCA) | 22,150 | 64.11% | Ng Lum Yong (keADILan) | 10,928 | 31.63% | 34,549 | 11,222 | 63.17% | ||||
2004 | P077 Tanjong Malim, Perak | (MCA) | 24,283 | 68.84% | Shamsuddin Abdul Rahman (PKR) | 9,590 | 27.19% | 35,273 | 14,693 | 66.88% |