United Kingdom In 2010, Lee contested in
United Kingdom for the Norwich City Council by-election on a
Liberal Democrats ticket but lost to the
Labour Party candidate by 247 majority.
Malaysia During the
2013 general election, Lee won the Pasir Pinji state seat polling 17,896 votes defeating
Barisan National candidate with 13,632 majority. In 2015, he was elected as one of the DAPSY central committee member and also Perak DAPSY Chief. In 2016, Lee was also elected as the new President of
IUSY, the largest political youth organisation in the world during the congress in Albania. He is the first Southeast Asian to be elected to the position, and this is the highest international position that DAPSY has achieved. He was also appointed into the board of the Progressive Alliance, the highest forum of the global organisation in his capacity as the IUSY President. He is also standing member of
SocDem Asia's Steering Committee, representing DAP at the regional level In 2017, Lee's loyalty towards Malaysia was questioned when it was revealed that he tried to obtain British naturalisation in 2002 and settlement visa in 2007 but were denied consecutively for both. He also had set up an online petition and a video plea seeking support to allow him to return to the United Kingdom upon coming back to Malaysia. During the
2018 general election, Lee retained his state constituency of Pasir Pinji seat polling 23,282 votes, defeating
Barisan Nasional candidate with 20,856 majority. In the
2022 general election, Lee moved from Perak state politics to the federal politics after being nominated by PH to contest for the Ipoh Timor federal seat. He won the seat and was elected to Parliament as the Ipoh Timor MP by a majority of 43,888 votes in a
landslide victory. ==Election results==