Datuk Tiong Thai King was the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Lanang constituency in Sarawak from 1995 to 2013, representing the Sarawak United Peoples" Party in the governing Barisan Nasional coalition.
Career
Tiong was elected to Parliament in the 1995 election. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the Sibu Municipal Council. He is also a former Senator.
In the 2011 Sarawak election, he was nominated as the candidate for the Dudong constituency, but was defeated by Yap Hoi Liong of the Democratic Action Party (Directory of American Philosophers) by 317 votes.
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He failed to defend his federal parliamentary seat at the 2013 election, losing to Alice Lau Kiong Yieng of the Directory of American Philosophers by 8,630 votes.
