Lau Kwok-fan
Edward Lau Kwok-fan, MH 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 and former member of the North District Council, representing Yan Shing until 2019. In the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election, he succeeded DAB veteran legislator Ip Kwok-him in the District Council 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, 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 lost his seat in 2019 following a rout of pro-Beijing candidates amidst the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.
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 functional constituency in the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. He was elected to the Legislative Council unopposed.
