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Ma Wan (constituency)
Ma Wan () is one of the 18 constituencies in the Tsuen Wan District of Hong Kong which was created in 2015. The constituency loosely covers the Ma Wan and northern Lantau Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands Di ... with the estimated population of 15,126. Councillors represented Election results 2010s Notes References {{coord missing, Hong Kong Constituencies of Hong Kong Constituencies of Tsuen Wan District Council 2015 establishments in Hong Kong Constituencies established in 2015 Lantau Island Ma Wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Hong Kong Local Elections
The 2015 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 22 November 2015. Elections were held to all 18 District Councils with returning 431 members from directly elected constituencies after all appointed seats had been abolished. A record-breaking 1.4 million voters, or 47 per cent of the registered voters, went to cast their votes. The pro-Beijing camp retained its control of all 18 councils with the Beijing-loyalist party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) maintained the largest party far ahead of other parties. The pan-democrats failed to seize control of the Kwai Tsing District Council, a traditional stronghold of the pan-democrats. Both sides lost their heavyweight incumbent Legislative Councillors. Albert Ho of the Democratic Party and Frederick Fung of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) who were both elected through District Council (Second) constituency lost their seats while Civic P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuen Wan District Council
The Tsuen Wan District Council () is the district council for the Tsuen Wan District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Tsuen Wan District Council currently consists of 21 members, of which the district is divided into 19 constituencies, electing a total of 19 with 2 ''ex officio'' members who is the Tsuen Wan and Ma Wan rural committee chairmen. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019. History The Tsuen Wan District Council was established on 1 April 1981 under the name of the Tsuen Wan District Board as one of the eight New Territories District Boards as the result of the colonial Governor Murray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. However, it was regarded as among the oldest District Boards since its precursor, the Tsuen Wan New Town Recreation and Amenities (Advisory) Committee, was founded in March 1976 which gave rise to the Tsuen Wan District Advisory Board in 1977 and was retitled the Tsuen Wan District Board in 1981. The District Boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Council Of Hong Kong
The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (LegCo) is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong. It sits under China's " one country, two systems" constitutional arrangement, and is the power centre of Hong Kong's hybrid representative democracy. The functions of the Legislative Council are to enact, amend or repeal laws; examine and approve budgets, taxation and public expenditure; and raise questions on the work of the government. In addition, the Legislative Council also has the power to endorse the appointment and removal of the judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the Chief Judge of the High Court, as well as the power to impeach the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Following the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests, the National People's Congress disqualified several opposition councilors and initiated electoral overhaul in 2021. The current Legislative Council consists of three groups of constituencies— geographical constituencies (GCs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Territories South West (2021 Constituency)
The New Territories South West geographical constituency is one of the ten geographical constituencies in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong which elects two members of the Legislative Council using the single non-transferable vote Single non-transferable vote or SNTV is an electoral system used to elect multiple winners. It is a generalization of first-past-the-post, applied to multi-member districts with each voter casting just one vote. Unlike FPTP, which is a single-winn ... (SNTV) system. The constituency covers Kwai Tsing District and Tsuen Wan District in New Territories. History The constituency was created under the overhaul of the electoral system imposed by the Beijing government in 2021, replacing Kwai Tsing District and Tsuen Wan District of the New Territories West used from 1998 to 2021. A constituency with the same name were also created for the 1995 Legislative Council election in the late colonial period. Returning members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuen Wan District
Tsuen Wan District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the New Territories and is served by the Tsuen Wan line of the MTR metro system. Its area is 60,7 km². Its residents, who mostly live in Tsuen Wan Town, enjoy the highest income in the New Territories. Part of the Tsuen Wan New Town is located in the Tsuen Wan District. An exclave of Tsuen Wan is also located on the northeastern part of Lantau island. The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort is within the boundary of Tsuen Wan District. History The district was set up in 1982 covering the present-day Tsuen Wan District and Kwai Tsing District. Kwai Chung and the island of Tsing Yi were split from Tsuen Wan District in the mid-1980s, and subsequently formed a new district known as Kwai Tsing. Sights The Sam Tung Uk Museum is a cultural and agricultural museum and was set up in a former Hakka walled village. Behind Tsuen Wan is Shing Mun reservoir, a valley that was once home to 10 villages tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuen Wan Rural West (constituency) , a r ...
Tsuen may refer to: *Village in Cantonese *Estate in Cantonese, particularly public housing estates *Ha Tsuen, an area in the Yuen Long Town area of Hong Kong *Lam Tsuen River, a river in Tai Po *Lam Tsuen Valley, the valley through which the Lam Tsuen River flows * Lam Tsuen wishing trees, a shrine in Lam Tsuen, Hong Kong *Lam Tsuen, an area in Tai Po, in the New Territories of Hong Kong *Lee Tsuen Seng, a Malaysian Badminton player *Tsuen Wan (football club), a football team in the Hong Kong Football Association *Tsuen Wan District, a district of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China *Tsuen Wan New Town, a town in the Hong Kong urban area *Tsuen Wan, a bay in the New Territories of Hong Kong *Yau Yat Tsuen Yau Yat Tsuen or Yau Yat Chuen () is one of the very few low density upscale neighbourhoods in the central urban area of Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is located in North Kowloon, at the foot of Beacon Hill. An electoral constituency of Sham Shui Po D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resumed afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Wan
Ma Wan is an island of Hong Kong, located between Lantau Island and Tsing Yi Island, with an area of .Hong Kong Geographic Data Lands Department, February 2011 Administratively, it is part of . The Lantau Link that passes through Ma Wan was constructed in the mid-1990s as part of the 's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lantau
Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands District of Hong Kong. A small northeastern portion of the island is located in the Tsuen Wan District. Originally an island with fishing villages, it has been developed since the late 20th century with the construction of Tung Chung New Town on its north-western coast and the completion of several major infrastructure projects, including Lantau Link (1997), Hong Kong International Airport (1998), Hong Kong Disneyland (2005), Ngong Ping 360 (2006) and Penny's Bay Quarantine Centre (2020). Geography With a land mass of , it is the largest island in Hong Kong, almost twice the size of Hong Kong Island. Lantau Island primarily consists of mountainous terrain. Lantau Peak () is the highest point of the island. It is the second highest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neo Democrats
The Neo Democrats was a pro-democracy, localist political group in Hong Kong composed mainly of former and disenchanted members of the Democratic Party New Territories East branch after the 2012 constitutional reform proposals. It had held one seat in the Legislative Council until Gary Fan lost his re-election in the 2016 Legislative Council election.Democrats lick wounds as 30 reform radicals quit , The Standard, Colleen Lee, 20 December 2010 Fan won the seat back in the 2018 by-election, but lost his seat after a court declared that he was not duly elected. It held 8 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Hong Kong Local Elections
The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. Nearly three million people voted, equivalent to 71 per cent of registered voters, an unprecedented turnout in the electoral history of Hong Kong. The election was widely viewed as a ''de facto'' referendum on the 2019 widespread anti-extradition protests. All pro-Beijing parties suffered major setbacks and losses, including the flagship pro-Beijing party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), which received its largest defeat in history, losing 96 seats. Executive Councillor Regina Ip's New People's Party failed to obtain a single seat, and was ousted from all District Councils as a result. Dozens of prominent pro-Beijing heavyweights lost their campaigns for re-election, including Junius Ho, a controversial anti-protest figur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constituencies Of Hong Kong
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established for that purpose, determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. District representatives may be elected by a first-past-the-post system, a proportional representative system, or another voting method. They may be selected by a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. Terminology The names for electoral districts vary across countries and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
