Anthony Loke Siew Fook (; born 28 April 1977) is a Malaysian people, Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Transport (Malaysia), Minister of Transport for the second term in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022 and the first term in the PH administration under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad from May 2018 to the collapse of the PH administration in February 2020, the Dewan Rakyat, Member of Parliament (MP) for Seremban (federal constituency), Seremban since May 2013, Rasah (federal constituency), Rasah from March 2008 to May 2013 and Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Chennah (state constituency), Chennah since May 2013, Lobak (state constituency), Lobak from March 2004 to May 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan, PH coalition. He has served as the 6th Secretary-General of DAP since March 2022, 2nd Parliamentary Leader of DAP from July 2018 to March 2022 and previously as National Organising Secretary of DAP. He also served as State Chairman of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) opposition coalition of Negeri Sembilan before PH took over power from the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition of the state in May 2018.

Early life and education

Loke was born in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, and educated at St. Paul's Institution and SMK Seri Ampangan. He graduated from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2000 with a degree in development science. He obtained his Master of Public Administration from University of Malaya.

Political career

In 1994, Loke joined DAP at the age of 17, the minimum age requirement of a DAP member. In 2004 Loke was elected to the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly for the seat of Lobak, and retained his seat in the 2008 Malaysian general election, 2008 election, when he also won election to the federal parliament for the constituency of Rasah (federal constituency), Rasah. In the 2013 Malaysian general election, 2013 election he switched seats at both state and federal levels, contesting and winning Chennah (state constituency), Chennah in the legislative assembly and Seremban in the federal parliament. Loke apologised to Pakatan Harapan Chairman Mahathir Mohamad after over 40 billboards featured the leader have to be covered after directed by Election Commission of Malaysia. Loke defended both his Parliament (Seremban (federal constituency), Seremban) and State (Chennah (state constituency), Chennah) seats in 2018 Malaysian general election, 2018 election (GE14) by defeating Malaysian Chinese Association, MCA's candidates, Chong Sin Woon (Parliament) and Seet Tee Gee (State) with a majority of 30,694 votes and 1,115 votes respectively. In the first Seventh Mahathir cabinet, Pakatan Harapan's Cabinet following victory in GE14, Loke was announced as the new Minister of Transport by the Prime Minister. He was among the first of 14 Cabinet ministers. He was sworn in on 21 May at Istana Negara. On 20 March 2022, on the 17th Democratic Action Party, DAP National Congress, Loke was re-elected into the Central Executive Committee with 1625 votes, the 3rd highest vote, after Gobind Singh Deo, Gobind Singh and Chow Kon Yeow. He was then appointed as DAP's 6th Secretary-general after Lim Guan Eng had stepped down from the role after 17 years.

Election results

External links

Loke's official blog
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Early life and education

Political career

Election results

See also

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