Yam Kai-bong (; born 20 May 1978) is a Hong Kong politician. He is the former member of the

Tai Po District Council The Tai Po District Council () is the district council of Hong Kong, district council for the Tai Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Tai Po District Council currently consists of 21 members, of which the district is divi ...

for Yee Fu and the convenor of the

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 o ...

Biography

He was graduated from the

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before he ran in the 1999 District Council election in Tai Yuen in as the youngest candidate in the election for the

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, where he lost to veteran Cheng Chun-ping. He went to study broad at the

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in Social Policy. In the 2003 District Council election, he ran again in Yee Fu and won a seat in the

. He was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. He ran in the 2008 Legislative Council election in New Territories East on

Andrew Cheng Andrew Cheng Kar-foo () (born 28 April 1960 in Hong Kong) was a Hong Kong politician and solicitor. He is a former Democratic Party member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the New Territories East geographical constituency. ...

's ticket in which Cheng successfully retook his seat. He was considered as the reformist faction in the Democratic Party. In the 2008 party leadership election, Yam ran for the central committee with other reformist faction headed by Andrew Cheng who challenged the vice-chairman post. The reformist ticket was largely defeated with Yam being the only reformist elected. In the 2012 constitutional reform package in which the Democratic Party made a compromise with the Beijing authorities, Yam quit the party with other reformists including

Gary Fan Gary Fan Kwok-wai (; born 30 October 1966) is a Hong Kong politician. He was the member of Legislative Council from 2012 to 2016 and from 2018 to 2019 after winning the 2018 by-election for New Territories East. He is also a former member o ...

and formed the

in which he became one of its convenor. In the

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, he ran on Gary Fan's nine-man ticket in New Territories East, on the second place, and successfully gained a seat for the Neo Democrats with around 28,000 votes. In the 2015 District Council election, he received the highest votes in the election, taking 4,148 votes in total.2015年區議會選舉 - 選舉結果(大埔)
/ref> He was on Gary Fan's ticket in the 2016 Legislative Council election again. Despite an increase in the number of votes, Fan failed to win the re-election.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yam, Kai-bong 1978 births Living people District councillors of Tai Po District Alumni of the City University of Hong Kong Alumni of the University of Hull Neo Democrats politicians Democratic Party (Hong Kong) politicians