Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape (constituency)

The Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape functional constituency (Chinese: 建築、測量、都市規劃及園境界功能界別) is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It was first created in 1985 as Engineering, Architectural, Surveying and Planning for the first ever Legislative Council election in 1985 as one of the original 12 functional constituency seats. The constituency was divided into Engineering and Architectural, Surveying and Planning in 1991. In the 2016 election, the constituency was changed to its current name when the landscape architects were added to the electorates.

Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape 建築、測量、都市規劃及園境界
Functional constituency for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong
Country	Hong Kong
Electorate	9,123 (2021)[1]
Current constituency
Created	1991
Number of members	One
Member(s)	Tony Tse (Nonpartisan)
Created from	Engineering, Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape
Traditional Chinese	建築、測量、都市規劃及園境界
Simplified Chinese	建筑、测量、都市规划及园境界
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiànzhù, Cèliáng, Dūshì Guīhuà jí Yuán Jìngjiè Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Gin jūk, chāk lèuhng, dōu síh kwāi waahk kahp yùhn gíng gaai Jyutping Gin3 zuk1, cak1 loeng4 dou1 si5 kwai1 waak6 kap6 jun4 ging2 gaai3

The constituency is composed of architects, landscape architects, surveyors, and planners and the members of Hong Kong Institute of Architects, Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, and Hong Kong Institute of Planners entitled to vote at the general meetings of the associations. As of 2020, there are 9,096 registered voters. It is one of the few swing seats contested between the pro-Beijing and pro-democracy camps. It was first won by independent democrat Yiu Chung-yim in 2016 in a three-way contest against two pro-Beijing candidates, defeating pro-Beijing incumbent Tony Tse, but was soon disqualified for his oath-taking manner from the office.^[2] The vacancy was taken up by Tony Tse in the 2018 by-election.^[3]

Composition

The architectural, surveying, planning and landscape functional constituency is composed of—^[4]

• architects registered under the Architects Registration Ordinance (Cap. 408); and
• members of The Hong Kong Institute of Architects entitled to vote at general meetings of the Institute; and
• landscape architects registered under the Landscape Architects Registration Ordinance (Cap. 516); and
• members of The Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects entitled to vote at general meetings of the Institute; and
• professional surveyors registered under the Surveyors Registration Ordinance (Cap. 517); and
• members of The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors entitled to vote at general meetings of the Institute; and
• professional planners registered under the Planners Registration Ordinance (Cap. 418); and
• members of The Hong Kong Institute of Planners entitled to vote at general meetings of the Institute.

Return members

Engineering, Architectural, Surveying and Planning (1985–1991)

Election		Member	Party
	1985	Cheng Hon-kwan	Nonpartisan
	1988

Architectural, Surveying and Planning (1991–2016)

Election		Member	Party
	1991	Edward Ho	BPF→Liberal
	1995
Not represented in the PLC (1997–1998)
	1998	Edward Ho	Liberal
	2000	Kaizer Lau	Nonpartisan
	2004	Patrick Lau	Nonpartisan→Alliance
	2008		Alliance→Professional Forum
	2012	Tony Tse	Independent

Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape (2016–present)

Election		Member	Party
	2016	Edward Yiu	Nonpartisan
	2018 (b)	Tony Tse	Nonpartisan
	2021

Electoral results

2020s

2021 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Tony Tse Wai-chuen	2,266	68.07	+12.53
	Nonpartisan	Chan Chak-bun	1,063	31.93
Majority			1,203	36.14
Total valid votes			3,329	100.00
Rejected ballots			163
Turnout			3,492	38.28
Registered electors			9,123
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

2010s

2018 Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape by-election^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Tony Tse Wai-chuen	2,929	55.54	+20.51
	Independent	Paulus Johannes Zimmerman	2,345	44.46	+1.02
Majority			584	11.08
Total valid votes			5,274	100.00
Rejected ballots			118
Turnout			5,392	70.77
Registered electors			7,619
	Nonpartisan gain from Nonpartisan		Swing

^[6]

2016 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Yiu Chung-yim	2,491	43.44
	Independent	Tony Tse Wai-chuen	2,009	35.03	−0.17
	Nonpartisan	Bernard Vincent Lim Wan-fung	1,235	21.35
Majority			482	8.41
Total valid votes			5,735	100.00
Rejected ballots			93
Turnout			5,828	79.07
Registered electors			7,371
	Independent hold		Swing

^[7]

2012 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Tony Tse Wai-chuen	1,668	35.20
	Independent	Patrick Lau Sau-shing	1,607	33.91	−3.36
	Democratic	Stanley Ng Wing-fai	1,464	30.89	+12.32
Majority			61	1.29
Total valid votes			4,739	100.00
Rejected ballots			211
Turnout			4,950	73.00
Registered electors			6,781
	Independent hold		Swing

2000s

^[8]

2008 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Patrick Lau Sau-shing	1,429	37.27	+8.91
	Nonpartisan	Yu Kam-hung	1,241	32.37
	Democratic	Stanley Ng Wing-fai	712	18.57	+5.34
	Nonpartisan	Chan Yiu-fai	383	9.99	−2.94
	Independent	Chan Chan-fai	69	1.80
Majority			188	4.90
Total valid votes			3,834	100.00
Rejected ballots			125
Turnout			3,959	64.41
Registered electors			6,147
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

^[9]

2004 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Patrick Lau Sau-shing	1,130	28.36
	Independent	Kenneth Chan Jor-kin	649	16.29
	Nonpartisan	Kaizer Lau Ping-cheung	616	15.46	−24.42
	Independent	Roger Anthony Nissim	547	13.73
	Democratic	Stanley Ng Wing-fai	527	13.23
	Independent	Chan Yiu-fai	515	12.93
Majority			481	12.04
Total valid votes			3,984	100.00
Rejected ballots			75
Turnout			4,059	79.34
Registered electors			5,116
	Independent gain from Nonpartisan		Swing

^[10]

2000 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Kaizer Lau Ping-cheung	938	39.88
	Nonpartisan	Law Kin-chung	767	32.61
	Liberal	Edward Ho Sing-tin	647	27.51
Majority			171	7.27
Total valid votes			2,352	100.00
Rejected ballots			60
Turnout			2,412	63.29
Registered electors			3,811
	Nonpartisan gain from Liberal		Swing

1990s

1998 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Ho Sing-tin	Unopposed
Registered electors			3,218
	Liberal win (new seat)

1995 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Edward Ho Sing-tin	Unopposed
Registered electors			1,878
	Liberal hold		Swing

1991 Legislative Council election: Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BPF	Edward Ho Sing-tin	552	53.70
	LDF	Lau Siu-kwan	246	23.93
	NHKA	Kan Fook-yee	136	13.23
	Nonpartisan	Po Luk-kei	94	9.14
Majority			306	29.77
Total valid votes			1,028	100.00
Rejected ballots			11
Turnout			1,039	70.16
Registered electors			1,481
	BPF hold		Swing

1980s

1988 Legislative Council election: Engineering, Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Cheng Hon-kwan	Unopposed
	Nonpartisan hold		Swing

1985 Legislative Council election: Engineering, Architectural, Surveying and Planning

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Nonpartisan	Cheng Hon-kwan	1,129	41.83
	Nonpartisan	Raymond Ho Chung-tai	1,074	39.79
	Nonpartisan	To Leung-tak	496	18.38
Majority			55	2.04
Total valid votes			2,699	100.00
	Nonpartisan win (new seat)