Yang Berhormat Puan
Gan Peck Cheng
MLA
颜碧贞
Leader of the Opposition of Johor
In office
12 October 2015 – 28 June 2018
MonarchIbrahim Ismail
Menteri BesarKhaled Nordin
(2013–2018)
Preceded byBoo Cheng Hau
Succeeded byHasni Mohammad
Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly
for Peggaram
Assumed office
5 May 2013
Preceded byKoh Chee Chai
(BN–MCA)
Majority10,051 (2013)
17,205 (2018)
Personal details
Born
Gan Peck Cheng

(1966-11-21) 21 November 1966
Kampung Minyak Beku, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia.
CitizenshipMalaysian
Political partyDemocratic Action Party (DAP)
Other political
affiliations		Pakatan Harapan (PH)
(since 2015)
Pakatan Rakyat (PR)
(2008-2015)
Barisan Alternatif (BA)
(1998-2004)
Gagasan Rakyat (GR)
(1990-1996)
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionKindergarten teacher
WebsiteFacebook

Gan Peck Cheng (simplified Chinese: 颜碧贞; traditional Chinese: 顏碧貞; pinyin: Yán Bìzhēn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gân Phek-cheng, born 21 November 1966) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Johor State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Penggaram since May 2013. She served as Deputy Speaker of the Johor State Legislative Assembly from June 2018 to January 2022 and Leader of the Opposition of Johor from October 2015 to the collapse of the Barisan Nasional (BN) state administration in May 2018. She is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition.

Personal life

She was born in Kampung Minyak Beku, Batu Pahat, Johor. She got her secondary education in Chinese High School Batu Pahat.

Earlier career

Before she served as a state assemblywoman, she have been working as a kindergarten teacher.

Political career

Gan contested for the Pontian federal seat and Penggaram state seat in the 1990 general and Johor state elections and again only for the Penggaram state seat in the 1995, 1999, 2004 and 2008 Johor state elections which she suffered from electoral defeats. In the 2013 general election, she finally broke her streak of five electoral defeats and ended her 23-year wait to be elected as an MLA. She gained her long-awaited victory in the same seat of Penggaram by defeating her opponents King Ban Siang from Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) of Barisan Nasional (BN) with 10,051 majority votes.[1]

In 2014, Gan came out tops in the Johor DAP state committee polls, receiving 271 votes.[2] Gan, a former DAP state secretary, was appointed as the new State Leader of the Opposition of Johor on 27 October 2015 to replace Boo Cheng Hau who had resigned.[3][4]

In the 2018 Johor state election, she retained her Penggaram state seat for her second term with higher majority of votes and was then appointed to be the first ever female Deputy Speaker of the Johor State Legislative Assembly in the history after PH took over the Johor state administration led by Menteri Besar Osman Sapian.[5] In February 2020, the PH state administration was overthrown and replaced with the new BN state administration led by new Menteri Besar Hasni Mohammad and PH returned to the state opposition after only 22 months in power. However, given by her identity as an opposition MLA, she was not removed from the deputy speakership and retained by the new administration along with Speaker Suhaizan Kayat who is also from the opposition. This became one of a very rare cases which the speakers are from the opposition instead of the government in Malaysia.

In the 2022 Johor state election, she retained her Penggaram state seat and was reelected for her third term by defeating all of her opponents but with a significantly lessened majority of only 9,952 votes compared to her last victory in 2018. After BN returned to the state government after its victory, she and Suhaizan were not reappointed as the speaker and deputy speaker of the assembly.

Election results

Parliament of Malaysia[6]
Year Constituency Candidate Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
1990 Pontian Gan Peck Cheng (DAP) 14,978 38.07% Ong Ka Ting (MCA) 24,362 61.93% 41,637 9,384 75.06%
Johor State Legislative Assembly[1][6][7][8][9][10]
Year Constituency Candidate Votes Pct Opponent(s) Votes Pct Ballots cast Majority Turnout
1995 Penggaram Gan Peck Cheng (DAP) 6,137 21.99% Chua Soi Lek (MCA) 20,174 72.30% 27,905 14,037 73.97%
1999 Gan Peck Cheng (DAP) 7,349 24.87% Chua Soi Lek (MCA) 20,809 70.41% 29,552 13,460 74.95%
2004 Gan Peck Cheng (DAP) 6,247 25.40% Koh Chee Chai (MCA) 16,845 68.51% 24,598 10,598 74.68%
2008 Gan Peck Cheng (DAP) 12,186 46.42% Koh Chee Chai (MCA) 12,761 48.61% 26,252 575 76.05%
2013 Gan Peck Cheng(DAP) 24,277 61.60% King Ban Siang (MCA) 14,226 36.10% 39,408 10,051 87.30%
2018 Gan Peck Cheng (DAP) 26,825 63.79% Kang Beng Kuan (MCA) 9,620 22.88% 42,050 17,205 84.52%
Misran Samian (PAS) 5,185 12.33%
2022 Gan Peck Cheng (DAP) 18,208 53.67% Ter Hwa Kwong (MCA) 8,252 24.32% 33,926 9,956 48.19%
Ronald Sia Wee Yet (BERSATU) 5,276 15.55%
Zahari Osman (IND) 2,190 6.46%

References

  1. 1 2 "Malaysia General Election". undiinfo Malaysian Election Data. Malaysiakini. Retrieved 4 February 2017. Results only available from the 2004 election.
  2. ↑ Mohd Farhaan Shah (12 January 2014). "Johor DAP polls: Gan Peck Cheng comes out tops - Nation". www.thestar.com.my. The Star. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  3. ↑ BORHAN AHMAD (28 October 2015). "DAP pilih Gan Peck Cheng ketua pembangkang Johor yang baru" (in Malay). Malaysia Dateline. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Adun Penggaram dilantik Ketua Pembangkang DUN Johor" (in Malay). Roketkini. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  5. ↑ Low Sock Ken (28 June 2018). "Johor state assembly appoints first female deputy speaker". The Sun Daily. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Keputusan Pilihan Raya Umum Parlimen/Dewan Undangan Negeri" (in Malay). Election Commission of Malaysia. Retrieved 14 April 2010. Percentage figures based on total turnout, including votes for third parties. Results before 1986 election unavailable.
  7. ↑ "KEPUTUSAN PILIHAN RAYA UMUM PARLIMEN NEGERI BAGI TAHUN 2013" (in Malay). Election Commission of Malaysia. Retrieved 16 May 2016. Percentage figures based on total turnout, including votes for third parties.
  8. ↑ "SEMAKAN KEPUTUSAN PILIHAN RAYA UMUM KE - 14" (in Malay). Election Commission of Malaysia. Retrieved 17 May 2018. Percentage figures based on total turnout.
  9. ↑ "The Star Online GE14". The Star. Retrieved 24 May 2018. Percentage figures based on total turnout.
  10. ↑ "Dashboard SPR". dashboard.spr.gov.my. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
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