Ping Shek (constituency)

Ping Shek
Elected Constituency for the Kwun Tong District Council
Boundary of Ping Shek in Kwun Tong District
Region	Kwun Tong District
Electorate	8,799[1]
Current constituency
Created	1994
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Chan Chun-kit (DAB)

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 deprived from the Ping Shek & Kai Yip (constituency). The seat was notably held by legislator Chan Kam-lam between 1999 and 2007 and Bernard Chan Pak-li of the DAB from 2007 onward before Chan resigned.^[2] The constituency boundary is loosely based on the Ping Shek Estate with estimated population of 13,160.^[3]

Chan Chun-kit, son of Chan Kam-lam defeated League of Social Democrats legislator Leung Kwok-hung in the by-election on 26 May 2013.^[4]

Councillors represented

Election		Member	Party
	1994	Lam Sum-shing	Democratic
	1999	Chan Kam-lam	DAB
	2007	Bernard Chan Pak-li	DAB
	2013 by-election	Chan Chun-kit	DAB

Election results

2010s

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2015: Ping Shek^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Chan Chun-kit	uncontested
	DAB hold		Swing

Ping Shek by-election 2013^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Chan Chun-kit	2,258	65.3	-11.9
	LSD	Leung Kwok-hung	1,198	34.7	+11.9
Majority			1,060	30.6
Turnout			3,483	44.8
	DAB hold		Swing	-11.9

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2011: Ping Shek^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Bernard Chan Pak-li	2,759	77.2	+15.7
	LSD	Lam Sum-shing	817	22.8
	DAB hold		Swing

2000s

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2007: Ping Shek^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Bernard Chan Pak-li	2,647	62.9	+12.6
	Civic	Yu Kwun-wai	1,386	32.9
	Independent	Lau Wing-tat	114	2.7
	Independent	Cheung Wai-hung	60	1.4
	DAB hold		Swing

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 2003: Ping Shek^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Chan Kam-lam	2,284	50.3	-0.1
	Frontier	Lam Sum-shing	2,259	49.7	+0.4
	DAB hold		Swing	-0.3

1990s

Kwun Tong District Council Election, 1999: Ping Shek^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Chan Kam-lam	2,128	50.4
	Democratic	Lam Sum-shing	2,028	49.3	-3.1
	DAB gain from Democratic		Swing

Kuwn Tong District Board Election, 1994: Ping Shek^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Democratic	Lam Sum-shing	2,028	54.4
	KTRA	Wong Wai-man	1,680	45.1
	Democratic win (new seat)

Citations

1. "2011 District Councils Election - Election Brief". Hong Kong Government. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
2. "By-election to fill vacant DC seat". news.gov.hk. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
3. "2011 District Councils Election - Summary of the District Council Constituency Areas". Hong Kong Government. 5 September 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
4. "Results of Kwun Tong District Council Ping Shek Constituency by-election". Hong Kong Government. 27 May 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
5. 李彭廣 (2004). "香港選舉資料庫". 嶺南大學公共管治研究部. Retrieved 9 March 2013.

References

• 2011 District Council Election Results (Kwun Tong)
• 2007 District Council Election Results (Kwun Tong)
• 2003 District Council Election Results (Kwun Tong)