Gary Zhang

{{Short description|Hong Kong politician (born 1989)}} {{use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{family name hatnote|[[Zhang (surname)|Zhang]]|lang=Chinese}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[Engineer|Ir.]] [[the Honourable]] | native_name = 張欣宇 | native_name_lang = zh | image = 張欣宇 20230315 (cropped).jpg | caption = Zhang in 2023 | office = Member of the [[Legislative Council of Hong Kong|Legislative Council]] | status = | term_start = 1 January 2022 | term_end = | constituency = [[New Territories North (2021 constituency)|New Territories North]] | predecessor = ''Constituency created'' | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1989}} | birth_place = [[Shanghai]], [[China]] | party = [[New Prospect for Hong Kong|New Prospect]] | citizenship = China }} '''Gary Zhang Xinyu''' ({{zh|c=張欣宇}}, born 1989) is a [[Mainland China|Mainland Chinese]]-born Hong Kong politician and engineer who represented [[New Prospect for Hong Kong]] in the [[2021 Hong Kong legislative election]] and was elected as a Legislative Council member for [[New Territories North (2021 constituency)|New Territories North]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/184820/Meet-the-newbies-in-Hong-Kong's-legislature|title=Meet the newbies in Hong Kong's legislature|work=[[The Standard (Hong Kong)|The Standard]]|date=20 December 2021|accessdate=23 December 2021}}</ref>

==Biography== Zhang was born in [[Shanghai]] and immigrated to Hong Kong with his family as a teenager. Prior to entering politics, he trained as a railway engineer and worked as an [[MTR]] station manager. Zhang was known as the supervisor of [[Prince Edward Station]] during the [[2019 Prince Edward station attack|attack that took place there in August 2019]]. At that time, he called for an independent investigation of the incident.<ref name="newparty">{{cite news |last1=Cheng |first1=Selina |title=New party of mainland-Hongkongers joins legislative race as Ronny Tong’s party struggles to gain nominations |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2021/11/04/new-party-of-mainland-hongkongers-joins-legislative-race-as-ronny-tongs-party-struggles-to-gain-nominations/ |work=Hong Kong Free Press |date=4 November 2021}}</ref>

== Electoral history == {{Election box begin| title=[[2021 Hong Kong legislative election|2021 legislative election]]: [[New Territories North (2021 constituency)|New Territories North]]}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong |candidate = Lau Kwok-fan |votes = 70,584 |percentage = 58.38 |change = N/A }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = New Prospect for Hong Kong |candidate = '''Zhang Xinyu''' |votes = 28,986 |percentage = 23.97 |change = N/A }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Independent politician |candidate = Shum Ho-kit |votes = 17,839 |percentage = 14.75 |change = N/A }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Independent politician |candidate = Judy Tzeng Li-wen |votes = 3,498 |percentage = 2.89 |change = N/A }} {{Election box end}}

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