Speaker of the Penang State Legislative Assembly

The Speaker of the Penang State Legislative Assembly is the highest-ranking presiding officer in the Penang State Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of the Malaysian state of Penang. They are responsible for convening sessions of the state's legislative body, organising debates, and examining the admissibility of petitions, bills and amendments. In the absence of the Speaker, the deputy will take their place. The speaker is selected through ballot in the first session of a new legislative assembly.

Speaker of the Penang State Legislative Assembly
Yang di-Pertua Dewan Undangan Negeri Pulau Pinang
Coat of arms of Penang
Incumbent Law Choo Kiang since 28 June 2013
Penang State Legislative Assembly
Style	Yang Berhormat Tuan Yang di-Pertua (formal) Tuan Speaker/Tuan Pengerusi (informal and within the assembly)
Member of	Committee of Rights and Freedoms, House Committee, Committee of Meeting Rules, Committee of Privileges
Reports to	Penang State Legislative Assembly
Seat	Penang State Assembly Building, Light Street, George Town, Penang
Appointer	Elected by members of the Penang State Legislative Assembly
Term length	Elected at the start of each Penang State Legislative Assembly, upon a vacancy
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Penang
Inaugural holder	Sulaiman Ahmad
Formation	6 June 1959; 65 years ago (1959-06-06)
Deputy	Deputy Speaker of the Penang State Legislative Assembly
Website	dun.penang.gov.my/index.php/yb

The incumbent Speaker is Law Choo Kiang. He was elected since 28 June 2013.^[1]

Election

The Penang State Legislative Assembly may from time to time elect a person of eligibility to become a Speaker of the assembly. A speaker may not be elected to be a Speaker unless he is a member or qualified to be a member of the legislative assembly. The speaker may resign at any time. He must vacate his office when either the legislative assembly first meet after a general election, or upon being disqualified to be a speaker, or upon the dissolution of the assembly, or on his ceasing to be a member of assembly other than because of the dissolution of the legislative assembly or ceased to be qualified of a member. A Deputy Speaker may also be chosen from any member of the legislative assembly.^[2]

List of Speakers of the Penang State Legislative Assembly

The following is the list of Speakers of the State Legislative Assembly since 1959:^[1][3]

Colour key (for political parties):
  Alliance /   Barisan Nasional   Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia   Pakatan Rakyat   Pakatan Harapan

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death) (Constituency)	Term of office			Party[a]		Election	Assembly
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1.		Haji Sulaiman Ahmad (born ?) MLA for Alma	6 June 1959	19 March 1969	9 years, 286 days		Alliance (UMNO)	1959	1st
								1964	2nd
2.		Dato' Harun Sirat (born ?) MLA for Alma MLA for Bukit Tengah	10 May 1969	16 June 1978	9 years, 37 days		Gerakan	1969	3rd
							BN (Gerakan)	1974	4th
3.		Dato' Haji Hassan Md. Noh (born ?) MLA for Penaga	8 July 1978	29 March 1982	3 years, 264 days		BN (UMNO)	1978	5th
4.		Dato' Teh Ewe Lim (born ?) MLA for Datok Keramat	22 April 1982	19 July 1986	4 years, 88 days		BN (Gerakan)	1982	6th
5.		Dato' Ooi Ean Kwong (born ?) MLA for Datok Keramat	3 August 1986	5 October 1990	4 years, 63 days		BN (Gerakan)	1986	7th
6.		Dato' Haji Abdul Rahman Abbas (born 1938) MLA for Bertam	21 October 1990	4 April 1995	4 years, 165 days		BN (UMNO)	1990	8th
7.		Dato' Haji Yahaya Abdul Hamid (born ?) MLA for Pinang Tunggal Non-MLA	25 April 1995	12 February 2008	12 years, 293 days		BN (UMNO)	1995	9th
								1999	10th
								2004	11th
8.		Dato' Haji Abdul Halim Hussain (born ?) Non-MLA	8 March 2008	27 June 2013	5 years, 111 days		PR (PKR)	2008	12th
9.		Dato' Seri Law Choo Kiang (born 1970) MLA for Bukit Tambun (2008–2018) Non-MLA (since 2018)	28 June 2013	Incumbent	11 years, 324 days		PR (PKR)	2013	13th
							PH (PKR)	–
								2018	14th
								2023	15th

See also

• Penang
• Penang State Legislative Assembly

Notes

1. This column names only the Speaker's party. The state legislaltive assembly he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; those are not listed here.