Lim Ban Hong

Lim Ban Hong (simplified Chinese: 林万锋; traditional Chinese: 林萬鋒; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Bān-hong; born 22 March 1977) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Malacca State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kelebang from May 2013 to May 2018 and again since November 2021.

He is a member and State Chairman of Malacca of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), a component party of the BN coalition.

[3] He, however, was defeated by Pakatan Harapan (PH) candidate Gue Teck and failed to defend his position as the MLA for Kelebang in the 2018 state election which also saw the collapse of the BN administration in the simultaneous 2013 general election (GE14).

[5] Following the collapse of PH in the February 2020 Malaysian political crisis also dubbed as 'Sheraton Move', which led to the appointment of the new Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and formation of the new PN administration in March the same year, as BN-MCA is an allied partner, he was picked as the Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry and Senator by Muhyiddin for him to be appointed as a deputy minister.

[6][7] In November 2021 state election, he get to be re-elected again after regaining the Kelebang seat back by defeating the incumbent Gue Teck.