Datuk Datuk (or its variant Dato or Datu) is a Malay title commonly used in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia, as well as a traditional title by Minangkabau people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. The title of the wife of Datuk is Datin. Origin The oldes ...

Dr. Hiew King Cheu (; born 1 March 1952) is a Malaysian politician. He currently is a member and deputy president of

Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah The Parti Gagasan Rakyat Sabah ( Sabah People's Ideas Party) or also registered as Parti Gagasan Bersama Rakyat Sabah (often known simply as GAGASAN or PGRS) and better known as Gagasan Rakyat, is a political party based in Sabah, Malaysia m ...

(PGRS) since 2019. Hiew is formerly the Member of the Sabah State Assembly for the constituency of

Luyang Luyang District () is one of four urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, East China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List o ...

, sitting in the assembly for

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) -

Barisan Nasional The National Front ( ms, Barisan Nasional; abbrev: BN) is a political coalition of Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of centre-right and right-wing political parties. It is also the third largest political coalition with 30 ...

(BN) after being an

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a while in 2013. From 2008 to 2013 he was the

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

(MP) for

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constituency in

Sabah Sabah () is a state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indonesia to the south. The Federal Territory ...

, representing the opposition

Democratic Action Party The Democratic Action Party (abbreviation: DAP; ms, Parti Tindakan Demokratik; ; ta, ஜனநாயக செயல் கட்சி) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Malaysia. As one of four component parties of the ...

(DAP). Hiew had contested the federal Kota Kinabalu seat in the 2002 by-election and

2004 Malaysian general election A general election was held on Sunday, 21 March 2004 for members of the 11th Parliament of Malaysia. Voting took place in all 219 parliamentary constituencies of Malaysia, each electing one Member of Parliament to the Dewan Rakyat, the dominan ...

losing on each occasion. He won the seat in the

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. Percentage figures based on total turnout (including votes for candidates not listed). In a four-way election, he narrowly defeated

Christina Liew Datuk Christina Liew (also known as Liew Chin Jin; ) (born 14 September 1952) is a Hong Kong-born Malaysian politician who has served as the State Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment of Sabah for the second term in the Gabungan Ra ...

of fellow opposition party PKR and

's Chin Teck Meng. The election was regarded as an unexpected loss by the ruling

coalition. Hiew relinquished his federal seat in 2013, instead contesting, and winning, the State Assembly seat of Luyang. In September 2013, he resigned from the DAP to become an

in the State Assembly due to his defiance of the party in supporting

Lajim Ukin Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Lajim Ukin (15 June 1955 – 29 August 2021) was a Malaysian politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Beaufort constituency in Sabah from 2008 to 2013, the Deputy Minister of Transport from 2008 to 2009 ...

over

Wilfred Bumburing Datuk Seri Panglima Wilfred Bumburing (born 2 December 1951) is a Malaysian politician. He is a member of the Sabah State Legislative Assembly and a former Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the seat of Tuaran, Sabah (2008–2013). ...

to be the leader of the opposition in the assembly. Hiew joined the

in 2014 after an invitation by the party in June that year. In 2017 while in MCA., he received the datukship award from Sabah governor Juhar Mahiruddin Up to 2018 and the fall of Barisan Nasional governments, he has been a member in Sabah's MCA, the second largest BN component. In 2019, Hiew had joined

(PGRS) and was elected its deputy president.

Election results

Honours

Honours of Malaysia

* : **

Commander of the Order of Kinabalu (PGDK) - Datuk (2017)

References

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