Josephine Chan Shu-ying in November 2019

Josephine Chan Shu-ying (; born 18 November 1958) is a Hong Kong politician and former chairman of the

Tuen Mun District Council The Tuen Mun District Council () is the District Councils of Hong Kong, District Council of Tuen Mun District, in the New Territories. It is one of 18 such councils. The Council consists of 32 members with 6 members of those elected through Plu ...

. As a Democratic Party member, Chan has been member of the Tuen Mun District Council from 1994 to 2015 and again from 2020 to 2021 for Siu Hong constituency and former member of the Regional Council.

Biography

Chan was graduated from the

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in 1982 and became a secondary school teacher at Buddhist Sum Heung Lam Memorial College, where she met her husband

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. She married Lee in 1984 but divorced in 1990 and remarried Lee in 2001. Chan was first elected to the Tuen Mun District Board in the 1994 election, where she won a seat in Siu Hong. She was consecutively re-elected for four occasions, but lost to Mo Shing-fung of the

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(DAB). She regained her seat in the 2019 election, where the pro-democrats gained the majority of the seat and elected Chan was the first female chairwoman of the council. Chan was also an elected member of the Regional Council elected in 1995. She lost her Regional Council seat when

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abolished the two municipal councils in 1999. Chan filed a judicial review application to the courts, claiming that the dissolution of municipal councils was "constitutionally defective" but the application was rejected by Justice Michael Hartmann. Chan also ran for the

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, running on the Democratic Party's ticket in

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. In 2004, she contested in the

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but lost to incumbent

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. She ran again in 2012 for New Territories West as a first candidate, but failed to get elected with 25,892 votes.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chan, Josephine 1958 births Living people Hong Kong educators Members of the Regional Council of Hong Kong Alumni of the University of Hong Kong District councillors of Tuen Mun District Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians Hong Kong women in politics