Chor Chee Heung

Chor Chee Heung (; born 15 March 1955) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Housing and Local Government from June 2010 to May 2013, Deputy Minister of Finance II from April 2009 to June 2010, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs II from March 2008 to April 2009, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Transport from 1995 to 1999 in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Ministers Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak and former Ministers Najib, Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, Syed Hamid Albar and Ling Liong Sik as well as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Alor Setar from October 1990 to May 2013. He is a member of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the BN coalition.

Chor was elected to the Alor Setar constituency in 1990. He retained the seat in the 2008 election by 184 votes, before being defeated in the 2013 election. In June 2010, he was promoted to Minister of Housing and Local Government. He had previously been a Deputy Minister, and had served in various Parliamentary Secretary and Deputy Minister positions since 1995.

Chor was a MCA Vice President.

Personal life Chor was born in Alor Setar. Before entering politics, he was a lawyer. |Year |Constituency

|Votes |Pct

|Votes |Pct |Ballots cast |Majority |Turnout 1990 P007 Alor Setar | (MCA)

54.48% | Tengku Mohammad Farris (S46)

42.16% 41,695 5,135 70.50 1995

| (MCA)

69.07% | Tunku Sofia Md Jewa (S46)

26.91% 41,904 17,665 67.93% 1999 | (MCA)

63.96% | George John K. M. George (DAP)

30.45% 43,538 14,589 68.37% 2004 | (MCA)

65.61% | Siti Nor Abdul Hamid (PKR)

32.05% 43,257 14,515 75.48% 2008 | (MCA)

48.00% | Gooi Hsiao Leung (PKR)

47.58% 43,206 184 73.28%

| (PKR)

47.25%

(BERJASA)

Jawahar Raja Abdul Wahid (BERSAMA)

Honours Honours of Malaysia