Tuen Mun District Council
Tuen Mun District Council 屯門區議會 | |
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| Type | |
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| History | |
| Founded | 1 April 1981 (District Board) 1 July 1997 (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (District Council) |
| Leadership | |
Chair | |
Vice-Chair | Wong Tan-ching, TMCN |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 32 councillors consisting of 31 elected and 1 ex-officio members |
6 / 31 | |
5 / 31 | |
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2 / 31 | |
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1 / 31 | |
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9 / 31 | |
| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
Last election | 24 November 2019 |
| Meeting place | |
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| 2/F, Tuen Mun Government Offices, 1 Tuen Hi Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories | |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Tuen Mun District Council (Chinese: 屯門區議會) is the District Council of Tuen Mun District, in the New Territories. It is one of 18 such councils. The Council consists of 32 members with 31 of those elected through first past the post system every four years with 1 ex officio member who is the Tuen Mun Rural Committee chairman. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019.
History
The Tuen Mun District Council was established on 1 April 1981 under the name of the Tuen Mun District Board as the result of the colonial Governor Murray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. The District Board was partly elected with the ex-officio Regional Council members and Tuen Mun Rural Committee chairman, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member. Rural leaders and indigenous inhabitants like Lau Wong-fat had dominated local political scene in the early and mid-1980s.[1]
The Tuen Mun District Board became Tuen Mun Provisional District Board after the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was established in 1997 with the appointment system being reintroduced by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. The current Tuen Mun District Council was established on 1 January 2000 after the first District Council election in 1999. The appointed seats were abolished in 2015 after the modified constitutional reform proposal was passed by the Legislative Council in 2010.
As a new town in the 1980s, Tuen Mun was a strategic target for emerging pro-democracy activists, notably the Meeting Point. Ng Ming-yam was first elected in the 1985 election with the highest votes in the territory and was re-elected with high votes in 1988 and 1991 and later on elected to the Legislative Council in 1991. Another pro-democracy party Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) and pro-Taipei 123 Democratic Alliance also established their bases in the 1990s. In the 1994 election, the pro-democracy and pro-Taipei together gained the control of the council.
The Tuen Mun District Council is also dominated by the rural forces. Long-time Heung Yee Kuk chairman Lau Wong-fat was the long-time chairman of the council from 1985 up until 2011, and again from 2011 to 2015, on the capacity of Tuen Mun Rural Committee chairman. In 1994 when the pro-democrat and pro-Taipei councillors controlled the board, the 123 Democratic Alliance defected and elected Lau to be the chairman.[2] Lau chairmanship was interrupted in 2011 when his rural committee chairmanship was taken away by Junius Ho. Leung Kin-man of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), which rapidly developed its base in the district after the handover, took the chairmanship briefly and again became the council chairman since 2015.
The Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho was a long time councillor in the district, representing Lok Tsui, until he was defeated in the 2015 District Council election when he was ousted by Junius Ho, which eliminated Albert Ho's eligibility to run in the District Council (Second) constituency for the Legislative Council.[3] The Democratic Party also suffered a huge defeat in the district, dropping their seats from seven to four.
Amid the massive pro-democracy protests in 2019, Junius Ho who was a key anti-protest figure who was allegedly involved in the Yuen Long attack was challenged by Democratic Party's Lo Chun-yu in his constituency in the November election, with Lo's party winning eight seats. A historic landslide victory occurred as the pro-democrats took 28 of the 31 seats in the council with Ho being unseated. A localist political group Tuen Mun Community Network also grabbed four seats as a result.
Political control
Since 1982 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:
| Camp in control | Largest party | Years | Composition |
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| No overall control | None | 1982–1985 | |
| Pro-government | PCPHP | 1985–1988 |
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| Pro-government | Meeting Point | 1988–1991 |
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| Pro-government | United Democrats | 1991–1994 |
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| Pro-democracy | Democratic | 1994–1997 |
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| Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 1997–1999 |
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| Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2000–2003 |
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| Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2004–2007 |
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| Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2008–2011 |
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| Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2012–2015 |
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| Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2016–2019 |
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| Pro-democracy | Democratic | 2020–2023 |
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Political makeup
Elections are held every four years.
District result maps
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2011 -
2015 -
2019
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Members represented
| Code | Constituency | Name | Political affiliation | Notes | |
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| L01 | Tuen Mun Town Centre | Alfred Lai Chun-wing
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Democratic | ||
| L02 | Siu Chi | Lam Chung-hoi
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | [a] | |
| L03 | On Ting | Kong Fung-yi
style="width: 2px; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" | |
ADPL | ||
| L04 | Siu Tsui | Yan Pui-lam
style="width: 2px; background-color: #73BC7C;" data-sort-value="Team Chu Hoi-dick of New Territories West" | |
Team Chu | ||
| L05 | Yau Oi South | Lam Kin-cheung
style="width: 2px; background-color: #F7941E;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Labour | ||
| L06 | Yau Oi North | Lam Ming-yan
style="width: 2px; background-color: #F7941E;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Labour | ||
| L07 | Tsui Hing | Poon Chi-kin
style="width: 2px; background-color: #007BA7;" data-sort-value="Tuen Mun Community Network" | |
TMCN | ||
| L08 | Shan King | Wong Tan-ching
style="width: 2px; background-color: #007BA7;" data-sort-value="Tuen Mun Community Network" | |
TMCN | ||
| L09 | King Hing | Chan Yau-hoi
style="width: 2px; background-color: #FF0000;" data-sort-value="Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions" | |
FTU | ||
| L10 | Hing Tsak | Tsang Chun-hing
style="width: 2px; background-color: #007BA7;" data-sort-value="Tuen Mun Community Network" | |
TMCN | ||
| L11 | San Hui | Cheung Ho-sum
style="width: 2px; background-color: #007BA7;" data-sort-value="Tuen Mun Community Network" | |
TMCN | ||
| L12 | So Kwun Wat | Ma Kee
style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| L13 | Sam Shing | Michael Mo Kwan-tai
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| L14 | Hanford | Beatrice Chu Shun-nga
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | [a] | |
| L15 | Yuet Wu | Wong Hung-ming
style="width: 2px; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" | |
ADPL | ||
| L16 | Siu Hei | Yan Siu-nam
style="width: 2px; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" | |
ADPL | ||
| L17 | Wu King | Chow Kai-lim
style="width: 2px; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" | |
ADPL | ||
| L18 | Butterfly | Yeung Chi-hang
style="width: 2px; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" | |
ADPL | ||
| L19 | Fu Sun | Lee Ka-wai
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | [b] | |
| L20 | Lok Tsui | Lo Chun-yu
style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| L21 | Lung Mun | Tsang Kam-wing
style="width: 2px; background-color: #11A0B4;" data-sort-value="Lung Mun Concern Group" | |
LMCG | ||
| L22 | San King | Catherine Wong Lai-sheung
style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| L23 | Leung King | Wong Tak-yuen
style="width: 2px; background-color: #007BA7;" data-sort-value="Tuen Mun Community Network" | |
TMCN | ||
| L24 | Tin King | Leung Ho-man
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| L25 | Po Tin | So Ka-man
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| L26 | Kin Sang | Law Pei-lee
style="width: 2px; background-color: #73BC7C;" data-sort-value="Team Chu Hoi-dick of New Territories West" | |
Team Chu | ||
| L27 | Siu Hong | Josephine Chan Shu-ying
style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| L28 | Yan Tin | Apple Lai Ka-man
style="width: 2px; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | |
DAB/NTAS | ||
| L29 | Tuen Mun Rural | Kenneth Cheung Kam-hung
style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| L30 | Fu Tai | Ho Kwok-ho
style="width: 2px; background-color: #450A09;" data-sort-value="Empowering Hong Kong" | |
Empowering HK | ||
| L31 | Prime View | Ho Hang-mui
style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| Ex Officio | Tuen Mun Rural Committee Chairman | Kenneth Lau Ip-keung
style="width: 2px; background-color: #78caec;" data-sort-value="Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong" | |
BPA | ||
Leadership
Chairs
Since 1985, the chairman is elected by all the members of the board:
| Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
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| bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"| | Billy C. L. Lam | 1981–1983 | District Officer |
| bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"| | Ricky C. C. Fung | 1983–1985 | District Officer |
| bgcolor="Template:Heung Yee Kuk/meta/color"| | Lau Wong-fat | 1985–2011 | Heung Yee Kuk→Liberal→ES |
| bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"| | Leung Kin-man | 2011 | DAB |
| bgcolor="Template:Economic Synergy/meta/color"| | Lau Wong-fat | 2012–2015 | ES→BPA |
| bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"| | Leung Kin-man | 2016–2019 | DAB |
| bgcolor="Template:DPHK/meta/color"| | Josephine Chan Shu-ying | 2020–present | Democratic |
Vice Chairs
| Vice Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"| | Leung Kin-man | 2000–2011 | DAB |
| style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Lau Chi-pang | 2011 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"| | Leung Kin-man | 2012–2015 | DAB |
| bgcolor="Template:HKFTU/meta/color"| | Lothar Lee Hung-sham | 2016–2019 | FTU |
| bgcolor="Template:Tuen Mun Community Network/meta/color"| | Wong Tan-ching | 2020–present | TMCN |
Notes
- ^ a b Former Democratic Party member.
- ^ Fu Sun Generation member.
References
- ^ Lau, Siu‐Kai; Kuan, Hsin‐chi (1984). "District Board Elections in Hong Kong". Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 22 (3): 309. doi:10.1080/14662048408447460. ISSN 0306-3631.
- ^ 田弘茂, 朱雲漢, 葉明德 (1996). 一九九七過渡與臺港關係. 業强出版社. p. 242.
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