Chin Lee
| Chin Lee | |
|---|---|
| 李振光 | |
| Toronto City Councillor for (Ward 41) Scarborough—Rouge River | |
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In office December 1, 2006 – May 11, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Ainslie |
| Succeeded by | Miganoush Megardichian |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Consultant |
Chin Lee (
Lee was elected to Toronto City Council in the November 2006 civic elections for Ward 41 - Scarborough—Rouge River. He replaces 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 will 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
| Ontario general election, 2018 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Raymond Cho | 16,813 | 50.17 | |||||
| New Democratic | Dwayne Morgan | 8,320 | 24.83 | |||||
| Liberal | Chin Lee | 7,519 | 22.44 | |||||
| Green | Nicole Peltier | 543 | 1.62 | |||||
| Libertarian | Sean Morgan | 318 | 0.95 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 100.0 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative pickup new district. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Ontario[3] | ||||||||
| 2010 Toronto election, Ward 41 | ||
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Chin Lee | 12,557 | 70.6 |
| Patricia Sinclair | 2,718 | 15.3 |
| Danny Chien | 2,507 | 14.1 |
| Total | 17,782 | 100% |
| 2006 Toronto election, Ward 41 | ||
| Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|
| Chin Lee | 5,501 | 37.8 |
| David Robertson | 3,324 | 22.9 |
| Thadsha Navamanikkam | 1,727 | 11.9 |
| Hratch Aynedjian | 1,376 | 9.5 |
| Scott Shi | 926 | 6.4 |
| John Ching | 690 | 4.7 |
| Sonny Yeung | 365 | 2.5 |
| Malcolm Mansfield | 338 | 2.3 |
| Jose Baking | 158 | 1.1 |
| Min Lee | 139 | 1.0 |
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
- ↑ "Toronto Police Services Board — Current Members". Retrieved September 2, 2015.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Candidate Search". Elections Ontario. Retrieved 18 May 2018.