The Yuen Long Tin Shui Wai Democratic Alliance (Chinese: 元朗天水圍民主陣線) is a political group in Hong Kong, and it was established in 2003.
It is a pro-democracy group formed under the initiatives of legislator and former Democratic Party member Albert Chan Wai Yip in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
The group filed five members in the Yuen Long District in the 2003 District Council elections, and won three seats in the Yuen Long District Council. (Albert Chan Wai Yip himself retained his seat in the Tsuen Wan District). The current chairman of the alliance is Johnny Mak Ip Shing (麥業成), who is also a member of Yuen Long District Council and The Frontier.
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