Lim Ban Hong (; born 22 March 1977) is a

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. He is the

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in the

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(BN) administration under Prime Minister

Ismail Sabri Yaakob Dato' Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob ( ms, اسماعيل صبري بن يعقوب, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; born 18 January 1960) is a Malaysian lawyer and politician who served as the 9th Prime Minister of Malaysia from August 2 ...

and Minister

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since August 2021. He served his first term in the

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(PN) administration under former Prime Minister

Muhyiddin Yassin Tan Sri Dato' Haji Mahiaddin bin Md Yasin (born 15 May 1947), commonly known as Muhyiddin bin Muhammad Yassin ( ms, محيي الدين بن محمد ياسين, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; ), is a Malaysian politician who serv ...

and Azmin from March 2020 to August 2021. He has served as

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since March 2020 and Member of the

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(MLA) for Kelebang since November 2021 and from May 2013 to May 2018. He is a member, Vice-President and State Chairman of

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of the

Malaysian Chinese Association The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA; zh, 马来西亚华人公会; ; ta, மலேசிய சீனர் சங்கம், initially known as the Malayan Chinese Association) is a uni-racial political party in Malaysia that seeks to ...

(MCA), a component party of the federal and state ruling

(BN) coalition which is aligned with another federal and state ruling

(PN) coalition.

Politics

Lim first won in 2013 state election to served as Member of the

Malacca State Legislative Assembly The Malacca State Legislative Assembly ( ms, Dewan Undangan Negeri Melaka) is the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Malacca. It is composed of 28 members who are elected from single-member constituencies throughout the state. Ele ...

(MLA) for Kelebang from May 2013 to May 2018. He had also served as member of the

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(EXCO) for the Transport, Project Rehabilitation and International Trade Executive Committee of the state. He, however, was defeated by

Pakatan Harapan The Alliance of Hope ( ms, Pakatan Harapan; abbrev: PH; stylized as HARAPAN) is a Malaysian political coalition consisting of centre-left political parties which was formed in 2015 to succeed the Pakatan Rakyat coalition. It has been the r ...

(PH) candidate Gue Teck and failed to defend his position as the MLA for Kelebang in the 2018 state election which also saw the collapse of the BN administration in the simultaneous 2013 general election (GE14). After the earlier GE14 outcome, in the November 2018 party leadership election, Lim was elected as the Vice-President of MCA in the new leadership line-up. Following the collapse of PH in the February 2020 Malaysian political crisis also dubbed as 'Sheraton Move', which led to the appointment of the new Prime Minister

and formation of the new PN administration in March the same year, as MCA-BN is an allied partner, he was picked as the

and

by Muhyiddin for him to be appointed as a deputy minister. He was sworn-in and appointed by

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, Al-Sultan Abdullah. In November 2021 state election, he get to be re-elected again after regaining the Kelebang seat back by defeating the incumbent Gue Teck.

Election results

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

* : **

Companion Class I of the Order of Malacca (DMSM) – Datuk (2014)

References

External links

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