| Honorific-Prefix: | Yang Berhormat Dato' Seri |
| Sundarajoo Somu | |
| Office: | Member of the Penang State Executive Council |
| Term Start: | 16 August 2023 |
| Governor: | Ahmad Fuzi Abdul Razak |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Chow Kon Yeow |
| Predecessor: | Jagdeep Singh Deo Phee Boon Poh |
| Constituency: | Perai |
| Constituency Am1: | Perai |
| Assembly1: | Penang State Legislative |
| Term Start1: | 12 August 2023 |
| Predecessor1: | Ramasamy Palanisamy (PH–DAP) |
| Majority1: | 9,139 (2023) |
| Birth Name: | Sundarajoo a/l Somu |
| Birth Place: | Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federation of Malaya |
| Nationality: | Malaysia |
| Citizenship: | Malaysian |
| Party: | Democratic Action Party (DAP) |
| Otherparty: | Pakatan Harapan (PH) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Children: | 4 |
| Alma Mater: | Nottingham Trent University |
Sundarajoo a/l Somu (born 1962) is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Penang State Executive Council (EXCO) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) state administration under Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow and Member of the Penang State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Perai since August 2023. He is a member of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), a component party of the PH coalition.
Sundarajoo was born into a poor family in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.[1]
Sundarajoo got his diploma from the Federal Institute of Technology. He is also a Master in Business Administration from Nottingham Trent University.
Sundarajoo first worked as an adjuster for the General Insurance Association of Malaysia. He lost his job during the 1987 financial crisis and started working as a field conductor for an estate. Then, he started working as a taxi driver before becoming a security guard where Tan Sri Liew Kee Sin, the founder of S P Setia, lived. Subsequently, he worked as Liew's driver before joining S P Setia in 2005 as a salesman. In 2002, he was made the general manager of S P Setia for the northern region of Malaysia. In 2014, following Permodalan Nasional Berhad’s takeover of S P Setia, he helped Liew set up EcoWorld and became the Deputy Chairman and deputy CEO of EcoWorld.[2]
Sundarajoo joined DAP in 2018.
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Pct | Opponent(s) | Votes | Pct | Ballots cast | Majority | Turnout | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | N16 Perai | (DAP) | 10,680 | 76.76% | bgcolor= | Sivasuntaram Rajalinggam (Gerakan) | 1,541 | 11.08% | 14,044 | 9,139 | 68.58% | ||
| David Marshel Pakianathan (IND) | 1,439 | 10.34% | |||||||||||
| bgcolor= | Vikneswary Harikrishnan (MUDA) | 253 | align=rught | 1.82% | |||||||||