Yau Yat Tsuen (constituency)

Yau Yat Tsuen
Elected constituency for the Sham Shui Po District Council
Boundary of Yau Yat Tsuen in Sham Shui Po District
District	Sham Shui Po
Legislative Council constituency	Kowloon West
Population	14,650 (2019) [1]
Electorate	6,497 (2019) [2]
Current constituency
Created	2007
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Vacant
Created from	Tai Hang Tung & Yau Yat Tsuen

Yau Yat Tsuen is one of the 25 constituencies in the Sham Shui Po District of Hong Kong.

The constituency returns one district councillor to the Sham Shui Po District Council, with an election every four years. The seat is currently vacant. It was last held by Lawrence Lau Wai-chung, who defeated the then incumbent Dominic Lee Tsz-king of the Liberal Party (LP).

Derived from Tai Hang Tung & Yau Yat Tsuen in 2007, Yau Yat Tsuen constituency is loosely based on residential areas Tak Chee Yuen, Yau Yat Tsuen, Mount Beacon and the City University of Hong Kong in Kowloon Tong with estimated population of 14,650. ^[3]

Councillors represented

Election		Member	Party
	2007	Kwok Chun-wah	Independent
	2012		Economic Synergy
	2012		BPA
	2015	Dominic Lee Tsz-king	Liberal
	2019	Lawrence Lau Wai-chung→Vacant	Nonpartisan

Election results

2010s

Sham Shui Po District Council Election, 2019: Yau Yat Tsuen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Lawrence Lau Wai-chung	2,487	50.98
	Liberal	Dominic Lee Tsz-king	2,391	49.02	−20.88
Majority			96	1.96
Turnout			4,894	75.33
	Nonpartisan gain from Liberal		Swing

Sham Shui Po District Council Election, 2015: Yau Yat Tsuen

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dominic Lee Tsz-king	2,277	69.9
	LSD	Dickson Chau Ka-faat	982	30.1
Majority			1,295	39.8	–4.9
Turnout			3,318	56.2
	Liberal gain from BPA		Swing

Sham Shui Po District Council Election, 2011: Yau Yat Tsuen ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent (Economic Synergy)	Jimmy Kwok Chun-wah	1,451	72.33	+14.11
	ADPL	Lee Kin-kan	555	27.67	−14.11
Majority			896	44.67	+31.12
	Independent hold		Swing	+14.11

2000s

Sham Shui Po District Council Election, 2007: Yau Yat Tsuen ^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Jimmy Kwok Chun-wah	1,031	58.22
	ADPL	Leung Kam-tao	740	41.78
Majority			291	13.55
	Independent win (new seat)

References

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). Electoral Affairs Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-05-10. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
3. "2015 District Councils Election - Summary of the District Council Constituency Areas". Hong Kong Government. 22 September 2015.
4. "Election Results - Sham Shui Po". Hong Kong Government. 7 November 2011.
5. "Election Results - Sham Shui Po". Hong Kong Government. 19 June 2012. Archived from the original on 25 May 2015. Retrieved 25 May 2015.