Ping Shek (constituency)

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Ping Shek
Elected Constituency
for the Kwun Tong District Council
PingShekConstituency.svg
Boundary of Ping Shek in Kwun Tong District
District Kwun Tong
Legislative Council constituency Kowloon East
Population16,446 (2019) [1]
Electorate8,280 (2019) [2]
Current constituency
Created 1994
Number of membersOne
Member(s)Lai Po-kwai (Democratic)

Ping Shek is one of the 37 constituencies of the Kwun Tong District Council. The seat elects one member of the council every four years. It was first created in Hong Kong district board elections, 1994 derived from Ping Shek & Kai Yip. The constituency boundary is loosely based on the Ping Shek Estate with estimated population of 16,446. [3]

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Councillors represented

ElectionMemberParty
1994 Lam Sum-shing Democratic
1999 Chan Kam-lam DAB
2007 Bernard Chan Pak-li DAB
2013 by-electionChan Chun-kit DAB
2019 Kira Lai Po-kwai Democratic

Election results

2010s

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2019: Ping Shek
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Kira Lai Po-kwai2,98251.14
DAB Chan Chun-kit2,84948.86
Majority1332.28
Turnout 5,85970.82
Democratic gain from DAB Swing
Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2015: Ping Shek [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DAB Chan Chun-kitUncontested
DAB hold Swing
Ping Shek by-election 2013 [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DAB Chan Chun-kit2,25865.3-11.9
LSD Leung Kwok-hung 1,19834.7+11.9
Majority1,06030.6
Turnout 3,48344.8
DAB hold Swing -11.9
Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2011: Ping Shek [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DAB Bernard Chan Pak-li 2,75977.2+15.7
LSD Lam Sum-shing81722.8
DAB hold Swing

2000s

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2007: Ping Shek [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DAB Bernard Chan Pak-li 2,64762.9+12.6
Civic Yu Kwun-wai1,38632.9
Independent Lau Wing-tat1142.7
Independent Cheung Wai-hung601.4
DAB hold Swing
Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2003: Ping Shek [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DAB Chan Kam-lam 2,28450.3-0.1
Frontier Lam Sum-shing2,25949.7+0.4
DAB hold Swing -0.3

1990s

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 1999: Ping Shek [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
DAB Chan Kam-lam 2,12850.4
Democratic Lam Sum-shing2,02849.3-3.1
DAB gain from Democratic Swing
Kuwn Tong District Board Election, 1994: Ping Shek [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Lam Sum-shing2,02854.4
KTMCFPA Wong Wai-man1,68045.1
Democratic win (new seat)

Citations

  1. "Recommended District Council Constituency Areas" (PDF). Electoral Affairs Commission.
  2. "Age and Sex profile of registered electors by 452 District Council Constituency Areas in 2019" (PDF). Registration and Electoral Office.
  3. "2011 District Councils Election – Summary of the District Council Constituency Areas". Hong Kong Government. 5 September 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 李彭廣 (2004). "香港選舉資料庫". 嶺南大學公共管治研究部. Archived from the original on 6 November 2003. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  5. "Results of Kwun Tong District Council Ping Shek Constituency by-election". Hong Kong Government. 27 May 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2013.

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