{{Short description|Hong Kong politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Joe Lai Wing-ho | native_name = {{nobold|黎榮浩}} | honorific_suffix = | native_name_lang = zh-hk | image = | image_size = 180px | office = Member of the [[Wong Tai Sin District Council]] | term_start = 1 January 2000 | term_end = 1 January 2020 | predecessor = Wong Yuk-fun | successor = Carmen Lau Ka-man | constituency = [[Wang Tau Hom (constituency)|Wang Tau Hom]] | ancestry = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1973}} | birth_place = [[British Hong Kong]] | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]] | other_party = | alma_mater = [[Hong Kong Baptist University]] | occupation = | profession = | spouse = | signature = }}
'''Joe Lai Wing-ho''' ({{zh-t|黎榮浩}}; born 1973) is a Hong Kong politician. He is a former vice chairman of the [[Wong Tai Sin District Council]] for [[Wang Tau Hom (constituency)|Wang Tau Hom]] and current deputy secretary-general of the [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]].
==Biography== Lai was educated at the [[Hong Kong Baptist University]] where he was a captain of the university's rowing team. He was named the best newcoming athlete by the Hong Kong Amateur Rowing Association in 1995.
He first contested in the [[1999 Hong Kong local elections|1999 District Council elections]] in [[Wang Tau Hom (constituency)|Wang Tau Hom]] against [[Bruce Liu (politician)|Bruce Liu]] of the [[Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood]] (ADPL). He was elected with 2,122 votes, compared to Liu's 1,829.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/dcelect99/chi/c21_cg.htm |title=存档副本 |accessdate=2008-10-17 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501212539/http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/dcelect99/chi/c21_cg.htm |archivedate=2008-05-01 }}</ref> He was re-elected in 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015 until he was defeated by [[Civic Party]]'s Carmen Lau Ka-man in the [[2019 Hong Kong local elections|2019 District Council elections]] in the city-wide pro-democracy landslide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/dc2003/tc_chi/result/result_wts.html |title=存档副本 |accessdate=2008-04-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501202852/http://www.elections.gov.hk/elections/dc2003/tc_chi/result/result_wts.html |archivedate=2008-05-01 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.gov.hk/dc2007/chi/index.html |title=存档副本 |accessdate=2008-04-09 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503042747/http://www.elections.gov.hk/dc2007/chi/index.html |archivedate=2008-05-03 }}</ref>
From 2016 to 2019, Lai was the vice chairman of the Wong Tai Sin District Council. He was also appointed member of the Administrative Appeals Board and [[Hong Kong Consumer Council]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admwing.gov.hk/chi/links/aab_mem.htm |title=存档副本 |accessdate=2008-04-09 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080401235126/http://www.admwing.gov.hk/chi/links/aab_mem.htm |archivedate=2008-04-01 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/200710/26/P200710260094.htm 政府委任消委會成員]</ref>
Lai ran in the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]] elections in 2008, 2012 and 2016 with the DAB ticket as a minor candidate in [[Kowloon East (constituency)|Kowloon East]], successfully helped [[Chan Kam-lam]] and [[Wilson Or]] to be elected to the legislature respectively. In the [[2020 Hong Kong legislative election|2020 Legislative Council election]] after incumbent Wilson Or abruptly decided not to seek for re-election, Lai was nominated by the DAB to succeed Or in Kowloon East.
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=[[Wong Yuk-fun]]}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of the [[Wong Tai Sin District Council]]|years=2000–2019|district=[[Wang Tau Hom (constituency)|Wang Tau Hom]]}} {{s-aft|after=[[Carmen Lau Ka-man]]}} {{s-bef|before=[[Wong Kam-chiu]]}} {{s-ttl|title=Vice Chairman of the Wong Tai Sin District Council|years=2016–2019}} {{s-aft|after=[[Wong Yat-yuk]]}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-new}} {{s-ttl|title = Deputy Secretary-general of [[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]]|years = 2017–present}} {{s-inc}} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lai, Joe}} [[Category:1973 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University]] [[Category:District councillors of Wong Tai Sin District]] [[Category:Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong politicians]] [[Category:Hong Kong male rowers]] [[Category:Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021]] [[Category:Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2021–2026]]