Socialist Democratic Party (Malaysia)

Socialist Democratic Party Parti Sosialis Demokratik SDP
Leader	Yeap Ghim Guan (Founder) Fan Yew Teng (Secretary General)
Founded	1978
Dissolved	1986
Split from	Democratic Action Party
Headquarters	Ipoh, Malaysia
Ideology	Social democracy
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Socialist Democratic Party (SDP) (Malay: Parti Sosialis Demokratik) was a splinter party of Democratic Action Party (DAP) formed in 1978 by Yeap Ghim Guan. He was later joined by another former DAP MP Fan Yew Teng who had also left the party after a dispute with the leadership of Lim Kit Siang. SDP failed to win any seat in the Malaysian general election, 1986 and it finally became defunct.