Cheo Chai Chen

Cheo Chai Chen (simplified Chinese: 蒋才正; traditional Chinese: 蔣才正; pinyin: Jiǎng Cái Zhèng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chiúⁿ Châi-chèng) is a politician and businessman from Singapore. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Nee Soon Central from 1991 to 1997, when he was a member of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). Since 2006, he has been a member of the National Solidarity Party (NSP).

Cheo is a graduate of Nanyang University, where he studied in the Department of Government and Public Administration.

Cheo first stood for Parliament at the 1988 general election, where he was defeated by Ng Pock Too of the governing People's Action Party (PAP) in Nee Soon Central. Ng won 57.6% of the votes in the constituency to Cheo's 38.5% (with a third candidate taking 3.9%).

At the 1991 general election, Cheo again stood against Ng in Nee Soon Central. And this time, in a surprise result, Cheo defeated Ng to win the constituency. Cheo won 12,709 votes (50.3%) to Ng's 12,541 votes (49.7%). Cheo was one of three SDP MPs to be elected – with the party's leader Chiam See Tong retaining his seat in Potong Pasir, and Ling How Doong winning in Bukit Gombak. The leader of the Workers' Party, Low Thia Khiang, was also elected in Hougang, giving the opposition parties a total of four seats. At the previous election, Chiam had been the only opposition MP to win a seat, so the results were seen as a significant success for the opposition.

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