Ben Chung

Ben Chung Kam-lun (Chinese: 鍾錦麟; born 19 November 1988) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the current member and the chairperson of the Sai Kung District Council for Yan Ying and convenor of Neo Democrats.

He graduated from the Lingnan University in Cultural Studies. He has been active in politics since he was 12 when he volunteered for Sai Kung District Councillor Gary Fan. He was also the chairman of the Youth Conference 2006 of the Hong Kong Secondary Students Union. He joined the Democratic Party but left with Fan over the party's deal with the Beijing authorities in the 2012 constitutional reform proposal and co-founded Neo Democrats with other Democrat defects.[1]

He first contested in the 2011 District Council election in Yan Ying. He won the seat with 2,221 votes and became the youngest elected candidate in that election.[2] He was re-elected in 2015. In the 2016 Legislative Council election, he ran on Gary Fan's nine-man ticket in the New Territories East. The ticket received more than 31,000 votes but failed to get Fan re-elected.

References

1. "大黨去細黨 當家作主". 《明報》. 2011-08-13. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28.
2. "民主黨改攻北區 新民主同盟10人出征冀全勝". 《明報》. 2011-11-01.