Vivian Wong Shir Yee () is a

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who has served as the

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(MP) for

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since May 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the

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(PH) opposition coalition.

Background

Vivian was born and raised in Sandakan,

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. She is the youngest child of

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Stephen Wong Tien Fatt Datuk Wong Tien Fatt (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ''Vòng Thiên-fat''; 2 October 1954 – 28 March 2019), also known as Stephen Wong, was a Malaysian politician. He won to be the Member of Parliament for Sandakan in Sabah for two terms (2013–2019). H ...

, the former MP for the Sandakan (2013–2019) and Minister of People's Health and Wellbeing of Sabah (2018–2019). She has been an active member in DAP alongside her father since 2012 and previously worked as a special assistant to her father in his ministry. Vivian has been a financial consultant in Kuala Lumpur and a teacher at the International Korean School of Malaysia in Cyberjaya. She also has been an activist and has volunteered for welfare programmes in countries including Indonesia and Cambodia. She is a graduate with a Diploma of Communication and Media from

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Subang Jaya in 2010 and a bachelor's degree in

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from the

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of Western Australia in 2013. In 2018, she obtained a Diploma Degree of Early Childhood Education from the University of Malaya.

Political career

Vivian was elected to the Parliament of Malaysia for the

constituency in the

2019 Sandakan by-election The 2019 Sandakan by-election was a by-election held on 11 May 2019 for the Dewan Rakyat seat of Sandakan. It was called following the death of incumbent, Wong Tien Fatt on 28 March 2019. Wong was a 2-term Member of Parliament for Sandakan sinc ...

after the seat fell vacant upon the sudden demise of her father by heart attack who was also the incumbent then. She won by 16,012 votes out of the 21,595 votes cast with a bigger majority of 11,521 votes.

Election results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Vivian Living people Malaysian politicians of Chinese descent Malaysian people of Hakka descent Malaysian Christians Malaysian activists Democratic Action Party (Malaysia) politicians Members of the Dewan Rakyat Members of the 15th Malaysian Parliament Women members of the Dewan Rakyat Women in Sabah politics Murdoch University alumni 21st-century Malaysian politicians 1989 births 21st-century Malaysian women politicians