Tsim Sha Tsui Central | |
---|---|
Elected Constituency for the Yau Tsim Mong District Council | |
![]() Boundary of Tsim Sha Tsui Central in Yau Tsim Mong District | |
District | Yau Tsim Mong |
Legislative Council constituency | Kowloon West |
Population | 14,762 (2019) [1] |
Electorate | 4,788 (2019) [2] |
Current constituency | |
Created | 2015 |
Number of members | One |
Member(s) | Ho Cheuk-hin (Community March) |
Created from | Tsim Sha Tsui East |
Tsim Sha Tsui Central (Chinese :尖沙咀中) is one of the 20 constituencies in the Yau Tsim Mong District of Hong Kong created in 2015.
The constituency loosely covers Tsim Sha Tsui with the estimated population of 16,871. [3]
Election | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
2015 | Kwan Sau-ling | DAB | |
2019 | Ho Cheuk-hin | Community March | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community March | Ho Cheuk-hin | 1,533 | 56.78 | ||
DAB | Kwan Sau-ling | 1,167 | 43.22 | −26.08 | |
Majority | 366 | 13.56 | |||
Turnout | 2,711 | 56.66 | |||
Community March gain from DAB | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DAB | Kwan Sau-ling | 1,099 | 69.3 | ||
Nonpartisan | Liu Siu-fai | 486 | 30.7 | ||
Majority | 613 | 38.6 | |||
Turnout | 1,658 | 30.2 | |||
DAB win (new seat) |
Kowloon is an urban area in Hong Kong comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. With a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of 43,033/km2 in 2006, it is the most populous urban area in Hong Kong. The peninsula's area is about 47 km2 (18 sq mi).
Central is the central business district of Hong Kong. It is located in Central and Western District, on the north shore of Hong Kong Island, across Victoria Harbour from Tsim Sha Tsui, the southernmost point of Kowloon Peninsula. The area was the heart of Victoria City, although that name is rarely used today.
Yau Tsim Mong District is one of 18 districts of Hong Kong, located on the western part of Kowloon Peninsula. It is the core urban area of Kowloon. The district has the second highest population density of all districts, at 49,115/km². The 2016 By-Census recorded the total population of Yau Tsim Mong District at 342,970.
Tsim Sha Tsui, often abbreviated as TST, is an urban area in southern Kowloon, Hong Kong. The area is administratively part of the Yau Tsim Mong District. Tsim Sha Tsui East is a piece of land reclaimed from the Hung Hom Bay now east of Tsim Sha Tsui. The area is bounded north by Austin Road and in the east by Hong Chong Road and Cheong Wan Road.
The Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) is the first and main art museum of Hong Kong, located in Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. It is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Government. HKMoA has an art collection of over 17,000 items. Admission is free for permanent exhibitions. Its rival is the non-government-managed Hong Kong Arts Centre. These two museums are considered to be the top two art museums in Hong Kong that dictate the discourse of art in Hong Kong.
East Tsim Sha Tsui is a station of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system of Hong Kong. It is currently an intermediate station on the Tuen Ma line.
Nathan Road is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po. It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Golden Mile, a name that is now rarely used. It starts on the southern part of Kowloon at its junction with Salisbury Road, a few metres north of Victoria Harbour, and ends at its intersection with Boundary Street in the north. Portions of the Kwun Tong and Tsuen Wan lines run underneath Nathan Road. The total length of Nathan Road is about 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi).
Kowloon Tong is a station on MTR's Kwun Tong line and East Rail line in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. The station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.
Salisbury Road is a major road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong Cultural Centre is a multipurpose performance facility in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Located at Salisbury Road, it was built by the former Urban Council and, since 2000, has been administered by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Government. A wide variety of cultural performances are held here.
Kowloon station, colliquially Old Tsim Sha Tsui Terminal, located in Tsim Sha Tsui on the present site of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, was the former southern terminus of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR).
Middle Road is a street in the southern part of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
East Kowloon line was one of the original five MTR lines proposed in the late 1970s in Hong Kong, which would have connected Sheung Wan with East Kowloon.
Island Harbourview is one of the largest private housing estates in Tai Kok Tsui, Yau Tsim Mong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is one of the property projects in MTR Olympic station Phase I. Developed by MTR Corporation, Sino Land, Bank of China, Kerry Properties, China Overseas Land and Investment and Capitaland Commercial Limited, it comprises 10 high-rise buildings, which were completed in 1998 and 1999. Flats in the development range in size from 609 to 1,215 square feet. It is the first estate to be completed in the new Reclamation Area which was part of the 1997 Construction Project.
Metro Harbour View is a private housing estate at the intersection of Tai Kok Tsui Road and Fuk Lee Street in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, within walking distance to the MTR Olympic station.
Cheung Sha Wan Estate is a public housing estate in Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong, built on the site of the former Cheung Sha Wan Police Married Quarters near Cheung Sha Wan station. The estate consists of two residential blocks and an auxiliary facilities block linked to Un Chau Estate by a walkway spanning Cheung Sha Wan Road completed in 2013.
Mong Kok East is one of the 20 constituencies in the Yau Tsim Mong District.
East Tsim Sha Tsui & King's Park (尖東及京士柏), formerly King's Park from 1994 to 2015, is one of the 20 constituencies in the Yau Tsim Mong District in Hong Kong.
Tsim Sha Tsui West is one of the 20 constituencies in the Yau Tsim Mong District. The constituency returns one district councillor to the Yau Tsim Mong District Council, with an election every four years.
Shan Tsui is a village in the Sha Tau Kok area of North District of Hong Kong.