Tsuen Wan Community Network ( zh, t=荃灣社區網絡) is a local political group based in

Tsuen Wan Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a town built on a bay in the western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite of Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market town of Tsuen Wan emerged from the surrounding villages and flee ...

founded in 2015. In a historic pro-democracy landslide in 2019 District Council election, the group won one seat in the

Tsuen Wan District Council The Tsuen Wan District Council () is the district council of Hong Kong, 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 distric ...

History

The group was formed in 2015 as a

-based community group. Its leader Lam Sek-tim ran in the 2015 District Council election against Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) legislator Chan Han-pan in Yeung Uk Road but lost. It was part of the

Community Network Union Community Network Union (Cantonese: 社區網絡聯盟) is a political alliance consisting of three localist community-based political groups. It was formed in August 2017 with six community groups, including Sha Tin Community Network, Tuen Mun C ...

, a localist political alliance of six community groups led by pro-independence

Ventus Lau Ventus Lau Wing-hong (; born 8 October 1993) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the convenor of the Shatin Community Network and the founding convenor of the Community Network Union, an alliance of the localist community groups in different distric ...

. The Tsuen Wan Community Network later quit the Union in 2018. Lam Sek-tim ran in Yeung Uk Road in the 2019 District Council election again and defeated Chan Han-pan's successor Ng Chun-yu with narrow margin of 174 votes in the pro-democracy historic landslide victory.

Electoral performance

Tsuen Wan District Council elections

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* {{Hong Kong political parties Political organisations based in Hong Kong Political parties established in 2015 2015 establishments in Hong Kong Liberal parties in Hong Kong Localist parties in Hong Kong