Khoo Poay Tiong (simplified Chinese: 邱培栋; traditional Chinese: 邱培棟; pinyin: Qiū Péidòng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khu Pôe-tòng; born 13 December 1970)[1] is a Malaysian politician who has served as Chairman of the Secretariat of the Malaysian Chinese New Village Division since May 2024 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kota Melaka since May 2018. He served as Leader of the Opposition of Malacca from July 2013 to May 2018 and Member of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Ayer Keroh from March 2008 to May 2018. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of Pakatan Harapan (PH) and formerly Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalitions. He has served as the National Organising Secretary of DAP since March 2025 and State Chairman of DAP of Malacca since June 2024. He served as the Assistant National Organising Secretary of DAP from November 2017 to his promotion in March 2025. He was the State Vice Chairman prior to his promotion to the state chairmanship. He is presently the sole Malacca DAP MP.[2][3][4]
Personal life
Khoo is the eldest son of Khoo Nian Koon, a tailor in Malacca town. He is married to Lee Wei Cheng (李慧贞) with three daughters.
Education
Khoo Poay Tiong graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Economics from University of Malaya.
Political career
Prior to his political life, Khoo was a senior manager at Maybank before quitting his job to pursue full time in a life as a politician in year 2008. He was first elected as a State Assemblyman for Ayer Keroh, by successfully crushing a long held stronghold of Barisan Nasional of Ayer Keroh state seat by beating Chiew Hong Lan in the 12th General Election.
In year 2013, during the 13th General Election, Khoo retained his state assembly seat and was elected as the Opposition Leader for the state of Malacca.
In 2018, he moved from Malacca state politics to the federal politics. In the 2018 general election, he won Kota Melaka federal seat and was elected to Parliament as the Kota Melaka MP for the first term after defeating Choo Wei Sern of Barisan Nasional (BN) and independent candidate Goh Leong San by a majority of 49,175 votes.[5][6]
In the 2022 general election, Khoo defended the Kota Melaka seat and was reelected to the Parliament as the Kota Melaka MP for the second term after defeating Suhaime Borhan of Perikatan Nasional (PN), Kon Qi Yao of BN and independent candidate Norazlanshah Hazali by a majority of 46,420 votes.
On 7 June 2024, after the resignation of Malacca DAP Chairman Tey Kok Kiew, Vice Chairman Khoo was unanimously promoted to Chairman by the state committee members in a meeting.
