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Jenny Wai Ching Kwan (t=關慧貞; born 1967) is a Canadian politician who is the member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver East. A member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), Kwan was elected to the House of Commons in 2015. She was previously a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), representing Vancouver Mount Pleasant from 1996 to 2015 with the British Columbia (BC) NDP, and was a provincial cabinet minister from 1998 to 2001. Kwan entered politics in 1993, when she was elected to the Vancouver City Council.

Kwan immigrated to Canada at age nine with her family from British Hong Kong.

In the 1996 British Columbia general election, Kwan entered provincial politics. After being nominated, she was elected as the MLA for Vancouver Mount Pleasant, in East Vancouver. She succeeded Premier Mike Harcourt, who at the time had just resigned over a series of serious fundraising scandals, including Bingogate. In 2001, Kwan, along with Joy MacPhail, was one of only two NDP MLAs to survive the party's electoral collapse in the 2001 British Columbia general election due to a BC Liberal landslide upset. She was re elected in 2005, 2009, and 2013.

In December 2010, Kwan released a statement to the media criticizing NDP leader Carole James, and calling for an immediate leadership convention, after party candidates suffered defeat in the 2009 election. In response to Kwan's statement, James called an emergency caucus session to address opposition to her continued leadership. Before the caucus meeting was held, however, James announced her resignation as party leader. While Kwan was accused of self interest, at the time she claimed to have no plans to run for the leadership of the party.

In March 2014, an audit of the Portland Hotel Society showed that Kwan's ex husband, Dan Small, had improperly expensed the cost of a family Disneyland trip to the society. At the time of the trip, Kwan had still been married to Small and had participated in the trip with their children. When the audit became public, Kwan held a press conference where she denied any knowledge that the society had paid for the trip, and said she would reimburse the society. Following the conference, Kwan took a brief leave of absence.

In January 2015, Kwan announced her plan to seek the NDP nomination in Vancouver East for the forthcoming federal election. Mable Elmore, Kwan's legislative colleague from Vancouver Kensington, was also seeking the party's nomination in the riding. Kwan was nominated on March 22, and sought to succeed Libby Davies as the MP for the riding; Davies had served as its NDP MP since 1997, and the riding had voted for the NDP or its predecessor, the Co operative Commonwealth Federation, in all but two elections since it was first contested in 1935. She was elected to the House of Commons in October 2015, defeating candidates Edward Wong (Liberal) and James Low (Conservative) by wide margins. On November 12, NDP leader Tom Mulcair appointed her to be the party's critic for immigration, refugees and citizenship. She was re elected in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. On May 12, 2023, it was reported that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service approached Kwan about a meeting concerning Chinese diplomats threatening her.

Jenny Kwan representing NDP in CA received 29,316 votes (49.94%) with a change of 12.89 percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$107,948.45. Edward Wong representing Liberal in CA received 16,532 votes (28.16%) with a change of +18.25 percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$103,236.57. James Low representing Conservative in CA received 6,322 votes (10.77%) with a change of 8.13 percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$10,430.75. Wes Regan representing Green in CA received 5,395 votes (9.19%) with a change of +1.54 percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$29,914.97. Peter Marcus representing Communist in CA received 525 votes (0.89%) with a change of – percentage points. Campaign expenses were $–. D. Alex Millar representing Independent in CA received 216 votes (0.37%) with a change of – percentage points. Campaign expenses were $–. Anne Jamieson representing Marxist Leninist in CA received 214 votes (0.36%) with a change of 0.35 percentage points. Campaign expenses were $–. Shawn Vulliez representing Pirate in CA received 188 votes (0.32%) with a change of – percentage points. Campaign expenses were $–. Total valid votes/Expense limit (100.00%)
Total rejected ballots (0.69%)
Turnout (67.44%)

Jenny Kwan representing NDP in BC received 11,155 votes (64.05%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$41,905. Anne Beer representing Liberal in BC received 4,243 votes (24.36%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$32,735. Paul Alexander representing Green in BC received 759 votes (4.36%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$100. John Spark representing PDA in BC received 584 votes (3.35%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$100. Wayne Marsden representing Reform in BC received 354 votes (2.03%%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $. Kimball Cariou representing Communist in BC received 121 votes (0.69%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$319. John S. W. Kent representing Natural Law in BC received 114 votes (0.65%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$120. Agnes Kokko representing Social Credit in BC received 86 votes (0.49%) with a change of percentage points. Campaign expenses were $$526.