Malaysian politician
Tan Kar Hing (simplified Chinese : 陈家兴 ; traditional Chinese : 陳家興 ; pinyin : Chén Jiāxīng ; Jyutping : Can4 Gaa1 Hing3 ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Tân Ka-heng ; born 4 May 1982) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gopeng since November 2022. He served as Member of the Perak State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration under former Menteri Besar Ahmad Faizal Azumu from May 2018 to the collapse of the PH state administration in March 2020 and Member of the Perak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Simpang Pulai from May 2013 to November 2022. He is a member and State Elections Department Director of Perak of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the PH coalition.[ 1] He has also served as the State Vice Chairman of PKR of Perak since January 2019 and also served as the State Youth Chief of PKR of Perak.[ 2] [ 3]
Political career
Tan first contested the Perak state seat of Simpang Pulai in the 2013 general election (GE13) as a PKR candidate and won with a majority of 11,083 votes.[ 4] He successfully defended the seat in the 2018 general election (GE14), almost doubling his majority.
Election result
Parliament of Malaysia
Year
Constituency
Candidate
Votes
Pct
Opponent(s)
Votes
Pct
Ballots cast
Majority
Turnout
2022
P071 Gopeng
Tan Kar Hing (PKR )
55,880
53.92%
Muhammad Farhan Abdul Rahim (BERSATU )
28,732
27.72%
103,638
27,148
72.14%
Cally Ting Zhao Song (MCA )
18,393
17.75%
Balachandran Gopal (WARISAN )
633
0.61%
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