Tony Tse


Tony Tse Wai-chuen, BBS is a Hong Kong surveyor and politician. He is a member of the Legislative Council for Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape from 2012 to 2016 and again from 2018.

Education and career

He was born on 27 October 1954 and graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic before joining the Hong Kong Civil Service and working in the Crown Lands & Survey Office. After 12 years, Tse moved into the commercial sector, including with Hongkong Land, Chesterton Petty, Emperor International Holdings, and Henderson Land. He also founded a property development and asset management consultancy, Brand Star.
Tse has held various public positions, including on the Urban Renewal Authority, Town Planning Board, Land and Building Advisory Committee, Municipal Services Appeals Board, Disciplinary Board Panel and Disciplinary Panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He was also the chairman of the Real Estate Services Training Board of the Vocational Training Council and chairman of the Surveyors Registration Board 2002-03. He was the president of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, 2003-04. From 2012 to 2014 he was the president of the Hong Kong Professional and Senior Executives Association.

Legislative Council

He was first elected to the Legislative Council in Architectural, Surveying and Planning functional constituency in 2012 by defeating incumbent Patrick Lau with a thin margin of 61 votes. Despite running under as an independent politician, Tse was a known to be a supporter of Leung Chun-ying, his fellow surveyor and Hong Kong Polytechnic alumni of whom he nominated in the 2012 Chief Executive election as a member of the Election Committee. He was awarded Bronze Bauhinia Star by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in 2014.
In the 2016 Legislative Council election, he lost his seat to the pro-democrat candidate Yiu Chung-yim in a three-way contest. After Yiu was disqualified for his conduct during the oath-taking process, Tse ran in the 2018 by-election and successfully retook the seat by defeating independent democrat Paul Zimmerman with nearly 3,000 votes.
He was also appointed member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in January 2018.