Lau Kwok-fan

The Honourable
Lau Kwok-fan
MH
劉國勳

Member of the Legislative Council
Assumed office
1 October 2016
Preceded by Ip Kwok-him
Constituency District Council (First)
Member of the North District Council
Assumed office
1 January 2008
Preceded by Adrian Lau Tak-cheong
Constituency Yan Shing
Personal details
Born (1981-06-28) 28 June 1981
Spouse(s) Casta Lui Dik-ming
Alma mater Chinese University of Hong Kong
Occupation District Councillor

Edward Lau Kwok-fan, MH (Chinese: 劉國勳; born 28 June 1981) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the member of the executive committee of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) and member of the North District Council, representing Yan Shing. In the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election, he succeeded DAB veteran legislator Ip Kwok-him in the District Council (First) functional constituency to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

Biography

Lau was born in 1981 and graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a master's degree in sociology. He joined the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the largest pro-Beijing party in 2002. He became a member of the party's executive committee in 2009.

He first contested in the 2003 District Council election in Yan Shing for the North District Council. In the 2007 District Council election, he ran again in the Yan Shing and won and defeated Adrian Lau Tak-cheong by receiving 4,159 votes, the second highest votes in Hong Kong. He was re-elected for two more terms in 2011 and 2015.

He was elected in the 2011 Election Committee subsector election through the New Territories District Council subsector to the Election Committee, which was responsible for electing Chief Executive election in 2012. In the 2012 Legislative Council election, Lau stood in the second place of the Chan Hak-kan's DAB ticket. Chan's list eventually received more than 40,000 votes with Chan being returned to the Legislative Council.

He was appointed to the Urban Renewal Authority Appeal Board Panel and the Council for Sustainable Development in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

In the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election, he defeated three other party members in a four-way intra-party primary to take up Ip Kwok-him's District Council (First) functional constituency in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.[1][2] He was elected to the Legislative Council unopposed.

References

  1. ↑ "政情 民建聯落實真‧選舉". Now TV. 4 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "民建聯初選 劉國勳得票勝三對手　料接葉國謙棒選立會". HK01. 24 March 2016.
Political offices
Preceded by
Adrian Lau		 Member of North District Council
Representative for Yan Shing
2007–present 		Incumbent
Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Preceded by
Ip Kwok-him		 Member of Legislative Council
Representative for District Council (First)
2016–present 		Incumbent
Order of precedence
Preceded by
Luk Chung-hung
Member of the Legislative Council		 Hong Kong order of precedence
Member of the Legislative Council 		Succeeded by
Kenneth Lau
Member of the Legislative Council
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