Candidate · N22 Padang Kota (1990)
Current
No current role in the records collected so far.
Overall due diligence
High
Enhanced due diligence required
Records show long-serving federal and state legislator across multiple terms, which carries elevated PEP exposure and warrants enhanced due diligence.
Electoral resilience
High
Won nine of ten recorded contests, including federal seats in 1964, 1969 and 1974 and successive state wins from 1964 to 1986, though the latest record (1990) shows a loss in N22 Padang Kota.
Political continuity
Elevated
Moved from UDP (1964) to GERAKAN by 1969 and onto the GERAKAN/BN coalition from 1974, with seat relocations from N16 Kota/P36 Tanjong to N22 Padang Kota/P42 Tanjong consistent with constituency redelineation.
Integrity signal
Clear
The records contain no allegations, charges, convictions, acquittals or regulatory findings; this reflects the narrow scope of the file (elections only), not an absence of issues.
Financial / corporate
Open
No SSM, asset, credit or company-registry checks are present; financial and corporate exposure cannot be assessed from the supplied records.
The supplied records establish Lim Chong Eu as a long-serving Malaysian legislator who represented Tanjong federally (GE2, GE3, GE4) and Kota/Padang Kota at the state level from 1964 to 1986, before losing the 1990 state contest, with a documented party transition from UDP to GERAKAN and then to GERAKAN/BN. Beyond the electoral record, the file contains no integrity, financial, corporate, procurement, regulatory or litigation material, so most due-diligence dimensions remain open and require verification through primary sources. Senior office-holder status warrants enhanced due diligence even though no adverse matter is on file.
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Arrests, charges, convictions, sentences, acquittals and pardons as reported by credible sources. Each item is marked with its stage — a charge is not a conviction — and outcomes are listed where reported.
No legal history found in the sources collected so far.
Allegations and investigations as reported by credible outlets. An allegation is not a finding; read each with its stage and source.
No scandals or controversies found in the sources collected so far.
How much due-diligence attention each area needs — not a finding of wrongdoing.
Three-term federal MP (GE2 1964, GE3 1969, GE4 1974) and multi-term state assemblyman establish elevated PEP status by virtue of office.
Records contain only vote tallies; no documented alliances, patronage links or coalition roles are on file.
No procurement, contract award or government-tender records are in the file.
No SSM, GLC appointment or directorship records are present.
No court, civil or criminal filings are documented in the supplied records.
No MACC, police, AG or regulatory determinations are on file.
No asset declarations, income disclosures or financial filings are in the file.
No media or reputation records are supplied beyond the official electoral results.
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Contested 10 elections, won 9.
| Election | Seat | Ticket | Votes | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulau Pinang state election 1990 | N22 Padang Kota | GERAKAN · BN | 5,611 47.0% | 2nd of 2 |
| Pulau Pinang state election 1986 | N22 Padang Kota | GERAKAN · BN | 6,426 55.7% | Won by 1,313 |
| Pulau Pinang state election 1982 | N22 Padang Kota | GERAKAN · BN | 9,151 75.9% | Won by 6,241 |
| Pulau Pinang state election 1978 | N22 Padang Kota | GERAKAN · BN | 6,137 52.0% | Won by 914 |
Official gazetted results via the Malaysian Election Corpus (grade A record).
Collected automatically from credible outlets and Wikipedia, then cross-checked: Verified items match the official record, Confirmed items were reported by two or more different outlets, and single-source items are one outlet’s report. Partisan and anonymous claims are never shown.
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| Pulau Pinang state election 1974 |
| N22 Padang Kota |
| GERAKAN · BN |
| 5,543 54.9% |
| Won by 2,240 |
| GE4 (1974) | P42 Tanjong | GERAKAN · BN | 15,409 46.0% | Won by 1,440 |
| Pulau Pinang state election 1969 | N16 Kota | GERAKAN | 6,308 78.7% | Won by 4,865 |
| GE3 (1969) | P36 Tanjong | GERAKAN | 19,656 78.9% | Won by 15,160 |
| Pulau Pinang state election 1964 | N16 Kota | UDP | 4,065 44.5% | Won by 1,128 |
| GE2 (1964) | P36 Tanjong | UDP | 12,928 45.4% | Won by 4,412 |