Chin Lee

Chin Lee (Chinese: 李振光; pinyin: Lǐ Zhèngguāng) is a former Canadian city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from Scarborough for Ward 41 Scarborough-Rouge River until his resignation in May 2018.

Chin Lee
李振光
Toronto City Councillor for (Ward 41) Scarborough—Rouge River
In office
December 1, 2006 – May 11, 2018
Preceded byPaul Ainslie
Succeeded byMiganoush Megardichian
Personal details
NationalityCanadian
OccupationConsultant

Lee was elected to Toronto City Council in the November 2006 civic elections for Ward 41 - Scarborough—Rouge River. He replaced former councillor and MPP Bas Balkissoon. Lee is also a member of the Scarborough Community Council.

Lee is one of Toronto City Council's three appointees to the seven-member Toronto Police Services Board where he presently serves as vice-chair.[1]

He is one of four councillors of Asian heritage elected to city council in Toronto in 2014, the other three being Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and Korean born, Councillor Raymond Cho.

Born to Chinese-Malaysian parents, his grandparents came from the Kaiping/Taishan region of the Guangdong province in China.

Community activism

Prior to entering politics Chin Lee served as President of the Goldhawk Community Association, serving the northeast Scarborough Community.

He was a founding member of Scarborough Needs Accountable Politicians (SNAP), a community organization that was created to oppose pay increases that Scarborough School Board Trustees approved for themselves.

Chin Lee, along with other community leaders such as Bas Balkissoon formed Scarborough Homeowners Alliance for Fair Taxation (SHAFT), a grassroots taxpayer group that fought to make changes to the Province of Ontario's property assessment system.

On October 27, 2017, Lee announced that he would be seeking the Liberal nomination for the 2018 provincial election in Scarborough North. On November 6, 2017, he was acclaimed as the candidate.[2] In the general election, he placed third, losing to incumbent Progressive Conservative MPP Raymond Cho by more than a two-to-one margin and placing behind the New Democratic candidate.

Election results
2018 Ontario general election: Scarborough North
Party Candidate Votes%
Progressive ConservativeRaymond Cho17,41351.05
New DemocraticDwayne Morgan8,32024.39
LiberalChin Lee7,51922.04
GreenNicole Peltier5431.59
LibertarianSean Morgan3180.93
Total valid votes 34,113100.0  
Progressive Conservative pickup new district.
Source: Elections Ontario[3]
2010 Toronto election, Ward 41
Candidate Votes  %
Chin Lee12,55770.6
Patricia Sinclair2,71815.3
Danny Chien2,50714.1
Total17,782100%
2006 Toronto election, Ward 41
Candidate Votes  %
Chin Lee5,50137.8
David Robertson3,32422.9
Thadsha Navamanikkam1,72711.9
Hratch Aynedjian1,3769.5
Scott Shi9266.4
John Ching6904.7
Sonny Yeung3652.5
Malcolm Mansfield3382.3
Jose Baking1581.1
Min Lee1391.0

Lee also ran in the 1994 municipal elections in then Scarborough Ward 11:

  • Shaw, Sherene 3,197
  • Lombardi, Don 2,272
  • Lee, Chin 1,944

References
  1. "Toronto Police Services Board — Current Members". Retrieved September 2, 2015.
  2. Benzie, Robert (November 7, 2017). "Councillor Chin Lee to run for Ontario Liberals in new Scarborough North riding". The Toronto Star. Retrieved June 7, 2018.
  3. "Summary of Valid Votes Cast for each Candidate" (PDF). Elections Ontario. p. 8. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.