Linda Tsen

• Honorific Prefix — Yang Berbahagia Datuk

• Name — Linda Tsen Thau Lin

• Honorific Suffix — PGDK

• Born — 1956 07 29

• Birthplace — Sandakan, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)

• Constituency Mp — Batu Sapi, Sabah

• Parliament — Malaysian

• Term Start — 4 November 2010

• Term End — 9 May 2018

• Predecessor — Edmund Chong Ket Wah

• Successor — Liew Vui Keong

• Citizenship — Malaysian

• Party — United Sabah Party (PBS)

• Other Party — Barisan Nasional (BN) (until 2018)

Gabungan Bersatu Sabah (GBS) (2018–present)

• Occupation — Politician

• Spouse — Edmund Chong Ket Wah (d. 2010)

Linda Tsen Thau Lin () is a Malaysian politician. She is the former Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Batu Sapi constituency in Sandakan, Sabah, representing the United Sabah Party (PBS) in the former ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

Tsen, born in Sandakan in 1956, attended her early education at Chi Hwa Primary School and Tiong Hwa Secondary School in Sandakan. She later further her study at St. Brandon School, United Kingdom; Trinity College of Music, London and Fellowship London College of Music. She is a musician and piano teacher, and has held the position of president of the Kota Kinabalu Music Society.

Tsen was elected to federal Parliament in the Batu Sapi by-election on 4 November 2010 after the seat had been vacant upon the death of the incumbent who is Tsen's husband, Edmund Chong Ket Wah. She defeated candidates of the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and the People's Justice Party (PKR). She successfully retained the seat in the 2013 general election but lost in the 2018 general election. In 2019, she contested again in the Sandakan by election, but was defeated by the Democratic Action Party (DAP) candidate Vivian Wong Shir Yee.

Tsen had previously served as the Women (Wanita) section head of PBS for Elopura division.

Parliament of Malaysia

• |Year — |Constituency — Candidate — |Votes — |Pct — Opponent(s) — |Votes — |Pct — |Ballots cast — |Majority — |Turnout

• 2010 — P185 Batu Sapi — Linda Tsen Thau Lin (PBS) — 9,773 — 64.22% — | — Ansari Abdullah (PKR) — 3,414 — 22.43% — 15,613 — 6,359 — 61.03%

• | — Yong Teck Lee (SAPP) — 2,031 — 13.35%

• 2013 — Linda Tsen Thau Lin (PBS) — 13,085 — 57.44% — | — Hamzah Abdullah (PAS) — 9,287 — 40.76% — 23,400 — 3,798 — 77.49%

• Saiful Bahari Rashada Ahmad (STAR) — 410 — 1.80%

• 2018 — Linda Tsen Thau Lin (PBS) — 8,357 — 35.93% — | — Liew Vui Keong (WARISAN) — 12,976 — 55.78% — 24,029 — 4,619 — 73.77%

• Hamzah Abdullah (AMANAH) — 980 — 4.21%

• | — Norsah Bongsu (PAS) — 948 — 4.08%

• 2019 — P186 Sandakan — Linda Tsen Thau Lin (PBS) — 4,491 — 20.80% — | — Vivian Wong Shir Yee (DAP) — 16,012 — 74.15% — 40,131 — 11,521 — 54.44%

• | — Hamzah Abdullah (IND) — 788 — 3.65%

• | — Chia Siew Yung (IND) — 178 — 0.82%

• | — Sulaiman Abdul Samat (IND) — 126 — 0.58%

• Sabah

• Commander of the Order of Kinabalu (PGDK) – Datuk (2013)