Tan Ah Eng () (22 August 1955 – 10 August 2013) was a

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politician. She was the Member of the

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for the

Gelang Patah Gelang Patah is a suburb in Iskandar Puteri, Johor Bahru District, Johor, Malaysia. It was administered by ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional for over 5 decades until the 13th Malaysian General Elections. One of its schools, Sekolah Menengah ...

constituency in the state of

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from 2004 to 2013. She was member 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 ruling

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coalition then. Tan was elected to federal Parliament in the 2004 election, succeeding fellow MCA member Teu Si @ Hang See Ten in the seat of Gelang Patah. Percentage figures based on total turnout. She had earlier been a Senator. Suffering brain cancer, she did not recontest her seat in the 2013 election, and died in August of that year, at the age of 58.

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