Kwun Tong District Council
Kwun Tong District Council 觀塘區議會 | |
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| Type | |
| Type | |
| History | |
| Founded | 2 April 1981 (District Board) 1 July 1997 (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (District Council) |
| Leadership | |
Chair | Choy Chak-hung, Independent |
Vice-Chair | Mok Kin-shing, Democratic |
| Structure | |
| Seats | 40 councillors consisting of 40 elected members |
8 / 40 | |
6 / 40 | |
4 / 40 | |
2 / 40 | |
1 / 40 | |
1 / 40 | |
1 / 40 | |
16 / 40 | |
| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
Last election | 24 November 2019 |
| Meeting place | |
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| Unit 05-07, 20/F Millennium City 6, Kwun Tong Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon | |
| Website | |
| www | |
The Kwun Tong District Council (Chinese: 觀塘區議會) is the district council for the Kwun Tong District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Kwun Tong District Council currently consists of 40 members, of which the district is divided into 40 constituencies, electing a total of 40 members. The council was created in April 1981 under the District Board Ordinance 1981. The last election was held on 24 November 2019.
History
The Kwun Tong District Council was established on 2 April 1981 under the name of the Kwun Tong 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 Urban Council members, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member.
The Kwun Tong District Board became Kwun Tong 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 Kwun Tong District Council was established on 1 January 2000 after the first District Council election in 1999. The council has become fully elected when the appointed seats were abolished in 2011 after the modified constitutional reform proposal was passed by the Legislative Council in 2010.
The Kwun Tong District Council is one of the largest District Councils in Hong Kong. Due to its large population, the political parties' influence was countered by the conservative independent community leaders. Because of the large presence of lower-income groups and industrial character, the Kwun Tong District Council has also been a stronghold for the pro-Beijing grassroots political groups, including the Kwun Tong Residents Association headed by Hau Shui-pui, council chairman from 1997 to 2003, and Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) and its Legislative Councillor Chan Kam-lam. It also the voter base of pro-democracy politicians Szeto Wah of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (PTU) and Fred Li of the Meeting Point who was first elected to the District Board in the 1985 election and got directly elected to the Legislative Council with Szeto through the district in 1991.
The pro-democracy camp first achieved more than half of the elected seats and took control of the board in the 1994 election. The pro-democracy majority was offset by the appointed members after 1997. In the tide of democracy caused by the 2003 July 1 march, the pro-democrats again achieved majority of the elected seats but was countered by the appointed seats.[1] The pro-democracy influence shrank significantly after 2003, with the Democratic Party dropped their seats from nine seats in the 2003 election to three in their territory-wide defeat in 2007 and had not yet been able to recover from it until the 2019 landslide victory which gave the pro-democrats the control of the council with 28 of the 40 seats and Democratic Party rebounding to the largest party status.
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 | Civic Association | 1982–1985 | |
| Pro-government | Civic Association | 1985–1988 |
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| Pro-government | Meeting Point | 1988–1991 |
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| No Overall Control | 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 | Democratic → 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.
| Political party | Council members | Current members | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1994 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color | | Independent | 11 | 18 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 16 / 40
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| bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color | | Democratic | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 / 40
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| bgcolor=Template:DAB/meta/color | | DAB | 4 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 6 / 40
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| bgcolor=Template:Civic Party/meta/color | | Civic | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 / 40
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| bgcolor=Template:Federation of Public Housing Estates/meta/color | | FPHE | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 / 40
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| bgcolor=Template:Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions/meta/color | | FTU | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 / 40
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| bgcolor=Template:Kowloon East Community/meta/color | | KEC | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | 1 / 40
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| bgcolor=Template:Civic Autonomy Power/meta/color | | CAP | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 / 40
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District result maps
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Members represented
Starting from 1 January 2020:
| Code | Constituency | Name | Political affiliation | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J01 | Kwun Tong Central | Edith Leung Yik-ting
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J02 | Kowloon Bay | Winnie Poon Yam Wai-chun
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J03 | Kai Yip | Wan Ka-him
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J04 | Lai Ching | Sheik Anthony Bux
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" | |
Civic | ||
| J05 | Ping Shek | Lai Po-kwai
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J06 | Choi Tak | Tam Siu-cheuk
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | |
DAB | ||
| J07 | Jordan Valley | Ngan Man-yu
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | |
DAB | ||
| J08 | Shun Tin | Mok Kin-shing
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J09 | Sheung Shun | Fu Pik-chun
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J10 | On Lee | Choy Chak-hung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J11 | Kwun Tong On Tai | Lam Wai
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5A3D1B;" data-sort-value="Federation of Public Housing Estates" | |
FPHE | ||
| J12 | Sau Mau Ping North | Raymond Tang Wai-man
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J13 | Sau Mau Ping Central | Cheung Pui-kong
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | |
DAB | ||
| J14 | On Tat | Hsu Yau-wai
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | |
DAB | ||
| J15 | Sau Mau Ping South | Jimmy Chan Yiu-hung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J16 | Po Tat | Fung Ka-lung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J17 | Kwong Tak | Wilson Or Chong-shing
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | |
DAB | ||
| J18 | Hing Tin | Nelson Ip Tsz-kit
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J19 | Lam Tin | Kan Ming-tung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF0000;" data-sort-value="Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions" | |
FTU/DAB | ||
| J20 | Ping Tin | Eason Chan Yik-shun
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J21 | Pak Nga | Chan Man-kin
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J22 | Chun Cheung | Tse Suk-chun
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J23 | Yau Tong East | Kung Chun-ki
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J24 | Yau Chui | Pang Chi-sang
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5A3D1B;" data-sort-value="Federation of Public Housing Estates" | |
FPHE | ||
| J25 | Yau Lai | Wang Wai-lun
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J26 | Yau Tong West | Lui Tung-hai
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J27 | Laguna City | William Li Wai-lam
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" | |
Civic | ||
| J28 | King Tin | Wong Ka-ying
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" | |
Civic | ||
| J29 | Tsui Ping | Vacant | |||
| J30 | Hiu Lai | Wilson Cheung Man-fung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J31 | Po Lok | Cheng Keng-ieong
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J32 | Yuet Wah | Jannelle Rosalynne Leung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J33 | Hip Hong | Li Ka-tat
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #6CC6CF;" data-sort-value="Civic Autonomy Power" | |
CAP | ||
| J34 | Lok Wah South | Kevin So Koon-chung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J35 | Lok Wah North | Wong Chi-ken
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #62AB25;" data-sort-value="Kowloon East Community" | |
KEC | ||
| J36 | Hong Lok | Chris Chan Ka-yin
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J37 | Ting On | Wong Kai-ming
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | |
Democratic | ||
| J38 | Upper Ngau Tau Kok Estate | Leung Tang-fung
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | |
DAB | ||
| J39 | Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate | Li Wing-shan
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" | |
Independent | ||
| J40 | To Tai | Lee Kwan-chak
style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" | |
Civic | ||
Leadership
Chairs
Since 1985, the chairman is elected by all the members of the board:
| Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"| | David Tsui Kwan-ping | 1981–1982 | District Officer |
| bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"| | Kevin I. K. Mak | 1982–1985 | District Officer |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Lam Hang-fai | 1985–1994 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Winnie Poon Yam Wai-chun | 1994–1997 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Hau Shui-pui | 1997–2003 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Bunny Chan Chung-bun | 2004–2019 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Choy Chak-hung | 2020–present | Independent |
Vice Chairs
| Vice Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Wu Kwok-cheung | 2000–2003 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | Leung Fu-wing | 2004–2007 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"| | So Lai-chun | 2008–2015 | Independent |
| bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"| | Hung Kam-in | 2016–2019 | DAB |
| bgcolor="Template:DPHK/meta/color"| | Mok Kin-shing | 2020–present | Democratic |
References
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