Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

The **deputy prime minister of Malaysia** () is the second highest political office in Malaysia. There have been 14 officeholders since the office was created in 1957.

## List of deputy prime ministers of Malaysia

**Colour key** (for political parties):

|colspan=2|Portrait|Name <small>(Birth–Death)</small>|colspan="3"|Term of office|colspan="2"|Political party|colspan="2"|Prime Minister|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**Abdul Razak Hussein** **عبدالرزاق حسين**|31 August 1957|22 September 1970||bgcolor=""||rowspan="3"|Alliance Party (UMNO)|Tunku Abdul Rahman||||
||**Ismail Abdul Rahman** **إسماعيل عبدالرحمن** (**Died in office**)|22 September 1970|2 August 1973||bgcolor=""||rowspan=3|Abdul Razak Hussein|||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|**Hussein Onn** **حسين عون**|rowspan="2"|13 August 1973|rowspan="2"|15 January 1976|rowspan="2"||bgcolor=""|||
|bgcolor=""||rowspan="9"|Barisan Nasional (UMNO)||||||||||
||**Mahathir Mohamad** **محضير محمد**|5 March 1976|16 July 1981||bgcolor=""||Hussein Onn||||||
||**Musa Hitam** **موسى هيتم**|18 July 1981|16 March 1986||bgcolor=""||rowspan="4"|Mahathir Mohamad|||||
||**Abdul Ghafar Baba** **عبدالغفار باب**|10 May 1986|15 October 1993||bgcolor=""||||||||
||**Anwar Ibrahim** **أنوار إبراهيم**|1 December 1993|2 September 1998||bgcolor=""||||||||
||**Abdullah Ahmad Badawi** **عبدالله أحمد بداوي**|8 January 1999|31 October 2003||bgcolor=""||||||||
||**Najib Razak** **محمد نجيب عبدالرزاق**|7 January 2004|3 April 2009||bgcolor=""||Abdullah Ahmad Badawi||||||
||**Muhyiddin Yassin** **محي الدين ياسين**|10 April 2009|29 July 2015||bgcolor=""||rowspan="2"|Najib Razak|||||
||**Ahmad Zahid Hamidi** **احمد زاهد حميدي**|29 July 2015|9 May 2018||bgcolor=""||||||||
||**Wan Azizah Wan Ismail** **وان عزيزة وان إسماعيل**|21 May 2018|24 February 2020||bgcolor=""||Pakatan Harapan (PKR)|Mahathir Mohamad|||||
||**Ismail Sabri Yaakob** **إسماعيل صبري يعقوب**|7 July 2021|16 August 2021||bgcolor=""||Barisan Nasional (UMNO)|Muhyiddin Yassin|||||
||**Ahmad Zahid Hamidi** **احمد زاهد حميدي**|rowspan="2"|3 December 2022|rowspan="2"|Incumbent|rowspan="2"||bgcolor=""||Barisan Nasional (UMNO)|rowspan=2|Anwar Ibrahim|
||**Fadillah Yusof**|bgcolor=#FF6060||GPS (PBB)|||||||||

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Deputy Prime Minister
- **body**: Malaysia
- **native name**: _Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia_
- **insignia**: Coat of arms of Malaysia.svg
- **flagsize**: 130px
- **flagcaption**: <small>Official emblem of the Office of the Prime Minister</small>
- **incumbent**: Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Fadillah Yusof
- **imagesize**: 150 px
- **incumbentsince**: 3 December 2022
- **department**: Prime Minister's Department, Deputy Prime Minister's Office
- **style**: Malay titles, Yang Amat Berhormat
<small>(The Most Honourable)</small>
_unless otherwise specified_
- **member of**: Cabinet of Malaysia, Cabinet
National Security Council (Malaysia), National Security Council
Dewan Rakyat, House of Representatives
- **reports to**: Parliament of Malaysia, Parliament
- **seat**: Perdana Putra, Putrajaya
- **residence**: Sri Satria, Putrajaya
- **nominator**: Prime Minister of Malaysia, Prime Minister
- **appointer**: Yang di-Pertuan Agong
- **termlength**: 5 years, renewable. Depended on the Prime Minister
- **inaugural**: Abdul Razak Hussein
- **salary**: Malaysian ringgit, MYR18,168.15 monthly
- **image**: