Chan Ying-lun , OBE JP Chinese : 陳英麟 , born 6 October 1950) is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and Eastern District Board .
He was brought up in the Shau Kei Wan squatters area and graduated from Cognito College and University of Hong Kong . He worked as the corporate affairs manager of the San Miguel Brewery Ltd .[ 1]
He was first elected as the Eastern District Board member in 1982 and reelected in 1985 and 1988, for Shau Kei Wan . He was appointed as the Legislative Council in 1983. In 1988 election , he defeated the incumbent Desmond Lee Yu-tai from the East Island electoral college constituency consisting of members of the Eastern and Wan Chai District Board by the margin of one vote.[ 2] direct election was introduced in 1991 , he lost his seat to the pro-democracy activists Martin Lee and Man Sai-cheong of the United Democrats of Hong Kong .
References
^ "Database on LegCo members" . Legislative Council of Hong Kong . Retrieved 4 May 2013 .^ Kuan, Hsin-Chi (1996). The 1995 Legislative Council Elections in Hong Kong . Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. p. 74.