The Tanjong Bunga state constituency was originally named Tanjong Bungah when it was created prior to the
1959 State Election. It was then renamed in time for the
1974 State Election. Tanjong Bungah was one of the first state seats in
Penang to be captured by the then fledgling
DAP in
1969.
Koh Tsu Koon, a
Gerakan politician, first won the Tanjong Bunga constituency in
1990 and was subsequently appointed as the
Chief Minister of Penang.
Koh held the seat until 2008, when he announced his intention to step down from his position as the
Chief Minister. During the
State Election later that year, the constituency was wrested from the
Barisan Nasional (BN) federal ruling coalition by Teh Yee Cheu, then a
DAP politician. Teh held Tanjong Bunga until the
2018 State Election, when DAP's
Zairil Khir Johari, who was selected to replace the former, won the constituency.
Representation history == Election results ==