| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Tuan |
| Wong Chia Zhen | |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-my |
| Office: | Member of the Kedah State Executive Council |
| Term Start: | 21 August 2023 |
| 1Blankname: | Menteri Besar |
| 1Namedata: | Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor |
| Predecessor: | Wan Romani Wan Salim Robert Ling Kui Ee Azman Nasrudin Portfolio established |
| Constituency: | Kulim |
| Constituency Am1: | Kulim |
| Assembly1: | Kedah State Legislative |
| Predecessor1: | Yeo Keng Chuan (PH–PKR) |
| Term Start1: | 12 August 2023 |
| Majority1: | 7,742 (2023) |
| Birth Name: | Wong Chia Zhen |
| Citizenship: | Malaysian |
| Party: | Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN) |
| Otherparty: | Perikatan Nasional (PN) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
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Wong Chia Zhen is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Kedah State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) state administration under Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor and Member of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kulim since August 2023. He is a member, Youth Chief and State Chairman of Kedah of the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (GERAKAN), a component party of the PN coalition. He is also presently the only Chinese, non-Malay and GERAKAN Kedah EXCO Member and the only serving GERAKAN elected representative as well as the first GERAKAN candidate to win an election since Mah Siew Keong won the 2014 Telok Intan by-election.
In the 2022 general election, Wong made his electoral debut after being nominated by PN to contest for the Batu Kawan federal seat. He was not elected to Parliament as the Batu Kawan MP after losing to Chief Minister of Penang Chow Kon Yeow of Pakatan Harapan (PH) by a majority of 40,400 votes.
In the 2023 Kedah state election, the ruling PN won a two-thirds supermajority in the Kedah State Legislative Assembly and was reelected to power. Following that, Jeneri MLA Muhammad Sanusi of PN was reappointed as the Menteri Besar. Wong was appointed as the Kedah EXCO Member in charge of Human Resources, Chinese, Indian and Siamese Affairs and Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) by Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi on 21 August 2023.[1]
In the 2023 Kedah state election, Wong was renominated by PN to contest for the Kulim state seat. Wong won the seat and was elected to the Kedah State Legislative Assembly as the Kulim MLA after defeating Teh Lean Ong of PH by a majority of 7,742 votes.[2]
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | P046 Batu Kawan | (GERAKAN) | 10,344 | 15.03% | (DAP) | 50,744 | 73.72% | 88,812 | 40,400 | 77.50% | |||
| Tan Lee Huat (MCA) | 7,145 | 10.38% | |||||||||||
| Ong Chin Wen (WARISAN) | 450 | 0.65% | |||||||||||
| bgcolor= | Lee Ah Liang (PRM) | 148 | 0.22% | ||||||||||
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | N35 Kulim | (GERAKAN) | 23,278 | 59.97% | Teh Lean Ong (PKR) | 15,536 | 40.03% | 38,814 | 7,742 | 71.65% | ||||