| Steven Choong Shiau Yoon | |||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-my | ||||||||||
| Constituency Mp: | Tebrau | ||||||||||
| Parliament: | Malaysian | ||||||||||
| Term Start: | 9 May 2018 | ||||||||||
| Term End: | 19 November 2022 | ||||||||||
| Majority: | 30,720 (2018) | ||||||||||
| Predecessor: | Khoo Soo Seang (BN–MCA) | ||||||||||
| Successor: | Jimmy Puah Wee Tse (PH–PKR) | ||||||||||
| Office1: | Deputy President of the Parti Bangsa Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Term Start1: | 14 February 2023 | ||||||||||
| Alongside1: | Wong Judat | ||||||||||
| President1: | Larry Sng Wei Shien | ||||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Haniza Mohamed Talha | ||||||||||
| Office2: | Senior Vice President I of the Parti Bangsa Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Term Start2: | 8 January 2022 | ||||||||||
| Term End2: | 14 February 2023 | ||||||||||
| President2: | Larry Sng Wei Shien | ||||||||||
| Predecessor2: | Position established | ||||||||||
| Successor2: | Paul Yong Choo Kiong | ||||||||||
| Office3: | Division Chief of the People's Justice Party of Tebrau | ||||||||||
| Term Start3: | 2014 | ||||||||||
| Term End3: | 28 February 2021 | ||||||||||
| President3: | Wan Azizah Wan Ismail Anwar Ibrahim | ||||||||||
| Predecessor3: | Selva Kumaran | ||||||||||
| Successor3: | Yuneswaran Ramaraj | ||||||||||
| Term Start4: | 2012 | ||||||||||
| Term End4: | 2013 | ||||||||||
| President4: | Wan Azizah Wan Ismail | ||||||||||
| Predecessor4: | Position established | ||||||||||
| Successor4: | Willham Siau | ||||||||||
| Office5: | Deputy Secretary-General of the People's Justice Party | ||||||||||
| Term Start5: | 2011 | ||||||||||
| Term End5: | 2014 | ||||||||||
| President5: | Wan Azizah Wan Ismail | ||||||||||
| 1Blankname5: | Secretary-General | ||||||||||
| 1Namedata5: | Saifuddin Nasution Ismail | ||||||||||
| Office6: | Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat | ||||||||||
| Subterm6: | 2018–2021 | ||||||||||
| Suboffice6: | Pakatan Harapan | ||||||||||
| Subterm7: | 2021 | ||||||||||
| Suboffice7: | Independent | ||||||||||
| Subterm8: | 2021–2022 | ||||||||||
| Suboffice8: | Parti Bangsa Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Steven Choong Shiau Yoon | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 7 December 1957 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Beruas, Perak, Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) | ||||||||||
| Party: | People's Justice Party (PKR) Independent Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) | ||||||||||
| Otherparty: | Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Pakatan Harapan (PH) | ||||||||||
| Occupation: | Politician | ||||||||||
| Profession: | Accountant | ||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Brunel University London | ||||||||||
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Steven Choong Shiau Yoon (; born 7 December 1957) is a Malaysian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tebrau from May 2018 to November 2022. He is a member of the Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) and was a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions. He has served as the Deputy President of PBM since February 2023. He served as the Senior Vice President I of PBM from January 2022 to his promotion to the party deputy presidency in February 2023. He also served as the Division Chief of PKR of Tebrau from 2014 to his resignation from the party in February 2021 and the Division Chief of PKR of Ayer Hitam from 2012 to 2013 as well as the Deputy Secretary-General of PKR from 2011 to 2014. During the 2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis and in February 2021, Choong resigned from PKR and became an independent MP supporting Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and the Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition along with Julau MP Larry Sng Wei Shien.
Choong was born on 7 December 1957 at Beruas, Perak. He went to Sekolah Menengah Teknik, Ipoh. He graduated with a Master's Degree in Business Finance at Brunel University London.[1]
Choong has a vast experience as an accountant, auditor, tax agent and business consultant career.[2] He is a Partner at CSY & Associates PLT beside Managing Director and CEO at CSY Tax Services Sdn. Bhd. He also serves as a Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on the board of Country View Bhd since 27 March 2002.[3] He is also the Chairman for Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Chartered Member at Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia and Member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.[4]
Choong chose to participate in politics by joining People's Justice Party (PKR) at the age of 50 in 2007.[5] He has been the Division Chairman of both Tebrau and Ayer Hitam and Deputy Secretary-General of PKR.[6] He made his debut contesting the Tebrau parliamentary seat in the 2013 elections but had lost by 1,767 votes to the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) candidate. In the 2018 elections, he contested Tebrau under the People's Justice Party banner again in a three-cornered fight and this time won by defeating candidates from the MCA and the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).
On 28 February 2021, he was sacked from PKR to be an independent MP friendly to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's ruling Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition together with Larry Sng.[7] The two MPs announced formation of Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM) on 19 November 2021.[8]
| Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Tebrau | Choong Shiau Yoon (PKR) | 38,218 | 48.87% | (MCA) | 39,985 | 51.13% | 79,835 | 1,767 | 88.23% | |||
| 2018 | (PKR) | 64,535 | 62.09% | Hou Kok Chung (MCA) | 27,310 | 26.27% | 105,420 | 37,225 | 85.68% | ||||
| Abdullah Husin (PAS) | 12,098 | 11.64% | |||||||||||
| Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Puteri Wangsa | (PBM) | 2,471 | 4.67% | (MUDA) | 22,884 | 43.22% | 52,948 | 7,114 | 46.94% | ||
| Ng Yew Aik (MCA) | 15,770 | 29.78% | ||||||||||
| Loh Kah Yong (GERAKAN) | 8,957 | 16.92% | ||||||||||
| Khairil Anwar Razali (PEJUANG) | 2,468 | 4.66% | ||||||||||
| Adzrin Adam (IND) | 398 | 0.75% | ||||||||||