Chak Au
Chak Au | |
|---|---|
Au in 2017 | |
| Member of Parliament for Richmond Centre—Marpole | |
| Assumed office April 28, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Wilson Miao |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Conservative |
| Other political affiliations | BC NDP (2017) |
Chak Kwong Au MP (Chinese: 區澤光) is a Canadian politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he has represented Richmond Centre—Marpole in the House of Commons since the 2025 federal election.[1] Au is a member of the Richmond City Council, initially elected in 2011.[2][3]
Biography
He immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong in 1988 where he served as an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is a family therapist by profession.[4]
He unsuccessfully ran as a British Columbia New Democratic Party candidate in the 2017 British Columbia general election. Au was also a Metro Vancouver Regional District councillor in 2024.[5]
After being elected federally in April 2025, Au decided in May 2025 to keep holding his municipal office, stating that he wanted to avoid the city having to pay to hold a byelection and pledged to donate his municipal salary to charity. The two positions, with a combined salary of $314,757, put him above the $309,700 made by federal cabinet ministers, the leader of the opposition, and the house speaker, and made him the second highest paid federal parliamentarian, only behind Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has a $419,600 salary.[5]
Electoral record
| 2025 Canadian federal election: Richmond Centre—Marpole | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Chak Au | 23,532 | 49.56 | +14.11 | $120,676.52 | |||
| Liberal | Wilson Miao | 21,232 | 44.71 | +6.13 | $74,065.44 | |||
| New Democratic | Martin Li | 2,109 | 4.44 | –15.94 | $0.00 | |||
| Green | Michael Sisler | 420 | 0.88 | –2.25 | $477.30 | |||
| People's | David Wang | 193 | 0.41 | –2.05 | $247.26 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,486 | 100.0 | – | $127,851.47 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 332 | 0.69 | –0.30 | |||||
| Turnout | 47,818 | 59.59 | +13.37 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 80,248 | |||||||
| Conservative notional gain from Liberal | Swing | +3.99 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[6][7] | ||||||||
| 2017 British Columbia general election: Richmond South Centre | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Liberal | Linda Reid | 6,914 | 48.72 | $68,363 | ||||
| New Democratic | Chak Au | 5,716 | 40.28 | $71,475 | ||||
| Green | Greg Powell | 1,561 | 11.00 | $379 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 14,191 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 171 | 1.19 | ||||||
| Turnout | 14,362 | 46.70 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 30,753 | |||||||
| Source: Elections BC[8][9] | ||||||||
References
- ^ "Richmond Centre—Marpole live federal election results". Toronto Star. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Canada Votes 2025: Chak Au leads in Richmond Centre-Marpole riding". Richmond News. 29 April 2025. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Councillor Chak Kwong Au - City of Richmond, BC". www.richmond.ca. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
- ^ "Chak Au: Reflecting on 25 years of public service, bridging cultures and advocating for the future". Richmond News. 2025-05-08. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
- ^ a b Abbas, Rana (January 11, 2026). "Holding two elected positions, B.C. Conservative MP Au is the highest paid backbencher in the House". The Hill Times. Retrieved 2026-01-11.
- ^ "Richmond Centre—Marpole Validated Results". Election Night Results. Elections Canada. Retrieved April 29, 2025.
- ^ "Candidate Campaign Returns". Elections Canada. Retrieved March 21, 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "2017 Provincial General Election Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- ^ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved 13 September 2020.