New Territories West
FormerGeographical constituency for theLegislative Council of Hong Kong
Boundary of New Territories West in Hong Kong
District	Tsuen Wan District Tuen Mun District Yuen Long District Kwai Tsing District Islands District
Region	New Territories
Population	2,174,700 (2020)[1]
Electorate	1,308,081 (2020)[2]
Former constituency
Created	1998
Abolished	2021
Number of members	Five (1998–2000) Six (2000–2004) Eight (2004–2012) Nine (2012–2021)
Created from	New Territories Central, New Territories North-west (1995), New Territories South, New Territories South-west (1995), New Territories West (1995)
Replaced by	Hong Kong Island West (2021), New Territories North West (2021), New Territories South West (2021)

TheNew Territories West geographical constituency was one of thegeographical constituencies in theLegislative Council of Hong Kong from 1998 to 2021. It was established in 1998 for thefirst SAR Legislative Council election and was abolished under the2021 overhaul of the Hong Kong electoral system. Located in the western part of theNew Territories, it was the largest geographical constituency in Hong Kong with 1,308,081 electorates in 2020. It consisted ofTsuen Wan District,Kwai Tsing District,Tuen Mun District,Yuen Long District andIslands District. In the2016 Legislative Council election, it elected nine members of the Legislative Council using theHare quota ofparty-list proportional representation.

The single-constituency single-vote system was replaced by theparty-list proportional representation system for thefirst SAR Legislative Council election designed by Beijing to reward the weakerpro-Beijing candidates and dilute the electoral strength of the majoritypro-democrats.^[3] Five seats were allocated to New Territories West, where the pro-democrats took four of the seats with one seat went toTam Yiu-chung of the pro-BeijingDemocratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) with nearly one-fifth of the popular vote. Pro-grassroots democratsLee Cheuk-yan of theHong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU) andLeung Yiu-chung of theNeighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC) each won a seat, with pro-democracy flagship partyDemocratic Party took two seats withLee Wing-tat andAlbert Ho being elected.

One extra seat was added to the constituency in the2000 Legislative Council election, where the Democratic Party split their tickets into three in order to maximise its chance to win one more seat, due to the unique design of theHare quota of the party-list proportional representation. Different zones were set up for each ticket to gather their votes, Kwai Tsing and Islands Districts for Lee Wing-tat, Tuen Mun and rural Yueng Long for Albert Ho and Tsuen Wan,Yuen Long Town Centre, Tin Shui Wai and a small part of Tuen Mun forAlbert Chan.^[4] With the rural support of the DAB–PA joint ticket,Tang Siu-tong was able to beat the Democratic tickets to gain the extra seat at the expense of Lee Wing-tat who lost the re-election.

In the2004 Legislative Council election, the number of seats in New Territories West was increased to eight, where the two new seats were taken by Lee Wing-tat who came back from his loss, andSelina Chow of theLiberal Party who rode on the popularity gained from the party's opposition2003 Basic Law Article 23 legislation. Selina Chow lost her2008 re-election which she complained the rural votes were taken away by DAB's rural candidateCheung Hok-ming.^[5] Chow was replaced by veteran trade unionistWong Kwok-hing of theHong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU).

In 2010, Albert Chan of theLeague of Social Democrats (LSD) resigned from the office to rigger aby-election as ade facto referendum on the government'sconstitutional reform proposal. Chan was re-elected with a low turnout due to the government and pro-Beijing boycott.^[6]

The deal on the modified constitutional reform proposal struck by the moderate democrats and the Beijing authorities expanded the number of the geographical constituency seats from 30 to 35, where the seats in New Territories West were increased to nine. The DAB deployed an offensive strategy by splitting their ticket into three separate ones, led by Tam Yiu-chung,Leung Che-cheung andChan Han-pan respectively. All three DAB tickets were elected, taking the advantage on the miscalculation of the pro-democrats, where theCivic Party took a overly aggressive strategy by fieldingKwok Ka-ki andAudrey Eu on the same ticket , hoping to win two seats. As a result, the Civics failed to get Eu elected and wasted votes at the expense on the Democratic Party who saw Lee Wing-tat andJosephine Chan both failed to win a seat. WithMichael Tien of theNew People's Party (NPP) also won a seat andAlice Mak retained a seat for the FTU, the pro-Beijing camp achieved a majority in New Territories West for the first time by winning five seats compared to pro-democrats' four.

The pro-Beijing camp retained its majority in the2016 Legislative Council election, as the pro-democrats again split their votes in the overcrowding field.Localist campEddie Chu andCivic Passion'sCheng Chung-tai were elected with high votes among the opposition candidate, while Civic Kwok Ka-ki and DemocratAndrew Wan took the two other seats. Veteran Lee Cheuk-yan of theLabour Party was unexpectedly defeated by pro-Beijing independentJunius Ho with a margin of 0.91 percentage point, who took Tam Yiu-chung's place who was retiring.

Below are all the members since the creation of the New Territories West constituency. The number of seats allocated to New Territories has been increased from five to nine between 1998 and 2012 due to the enlargement.

Thelargest remainder method (withHare quota) of theproportional representative electoral system was introduced in 1998, replacing thesingle-member constituencies of the1995 election. Elected candidates are shown inbold. Brackets indicate the quota + remainder.

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