Kwai Tsing District Council

Kwai Tsing District Council 葵青區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of the Kwai Tsing District
History
Founded	1 April 1985 (1985-04-01) (District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Sin Chung-kai, Democratic
Vice-Chair	Cheung Man-lung, Independent
Structure
Seats	32 councillors consisting of 31 elected and 1 ex officio members
Democratic	12 / 32
DAB	3 / 32
Civic	3 / 32
NWSC	3 / 32
Roundtable	1 / 32
TYP	1 / 32
Independent	9 / 32
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	24 November 2019
Meeting place
10/F, Kwai Hing Government Offices, 166–174 Hing Fong Road, Kwai Chung
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/kwt/

Kwai Tsing District Council (Chinese: 葵青區議會) is the district council for the Kwai Tsing District in Hong Kong, being one of the 18 district councils in Hong Kong. It currently consists of 32 members of which 31 are directly elected from the 31 constituencies of the district, one ex-officio member who is the Tsing Yi Rural Committee chairman. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019.

History

The Kwai Tsing District Council was originally part of the Tsuen Wan District Board until 1985, when a separate Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi District Board was established on 1 April 1985 due to the rapid expansion of population. It was renamed into today's Kwai Tsing District Council in 1988, making it the second youngest existing district council after Yau Tsim Mong District Council. The District Board was partly elected with the ex-officio Regional Council members and Tsing Yi Rural Committee chairman, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member.

The Kwai Tsing District Board became Kwai Tsing 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 Kwai Tsing District Council was established on 1 January 2000 after the first District Council election in 1999. The appointed seats were abolished in 2011 after the modified constitutional reform proposal was passed by the Legislative Council in 2010.

The Kwai Tsing District Council had been a stronghold of the pro-democracy camp from 1985 until 2015. Prominent pro-democracy politicians Lee Wing-tat, Sin Chung-kai and Leung Yiu-chung were among the seven pro-democrat activists to become the first members of the council. Lee and Sin had served as council chairmen from 1988 to 1991 and from 1991 to 1994 respectively, representing the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL). The ADPL dominance was replaced by the Democratic Party when the ADPL core members joined the Democrats in the 1990s.

The Democratic Party with the Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC), which had a strong presence in Shek Yam and Kwai Chung, had comfortable control of the council throughout the 1980s and the early SAR period until their influence began to eclipse in the late 2000s with the pro-Beijing camp actively absorbed the former pro-democrat independents and the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) and the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) developed their bases in the district. In the 2007 election when the pan-democrats suffered a territory-wide devastating loss which saw the pro-Beijing camp gained majority of the council for the first time, with the help of the reintroduction of appointment system, where the Chief Executive would appoint pro-government councillors to set off the pro-democracy influence.

In the 2015 election, the Democrats lost its largest party status to DAB for the first time in which the Democrats' seats were down to four by losing half of their seats including the seat in Shek Yam held by its vice-chairman Andrew Wan and the DAB doubled their seats from four to eight, despite the appointment system was abolished in the election. The pro-democrats turned the tide when they scored a landslide victory in the 2019 election amid the massive pro-democracy protests and regained the control of the council by taking 27 of the 31 elected seats. Notable defeated incumbents included legislator Alice Mak of FTU in Wai Ying, while Democratic legislator Andrew Wan regained back his Shek Yam seat from his opponent from DAB.

Political control

Since 1985 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

Camp in control	Largest party	Years	Composition
Pro-government	PCPHP	1985–1988
Pro-democracy	ADPL → United Democrats	1988–1991
Pro-democracy	United Democrats	1991–1994
Pro-democracy	Democratic	1994–1997
Pro-democracy	Democratic	1997–1999
Pro-democracy	Democratic	2000–2003
Pro-democracy	Democratic	2004–2007
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	2008–2011
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	2012–2015
Pro-Beijing	DAB	2016–2019
Pro-democracy	Democratic	2020–2023

Political makeup

Elections are held every four years.

	Political party	Council members							Current members
		1994	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015	2019
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color |	Democratic	9	10	11	9	9	4	12	12 / 32
bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color |	Independent	9	13	9	8	8	4	9	9 / 32
bgcolor=Template:DAB/meta/color |	DAB	0	2	1	4	5	8	3	3 / 32
style="background-color:Template:Civic Party/meta/color"|	Civic	-	-	-	-	0	-	3	3 / 32
style="background-color:Template:Neighbourhood and Workers' Service Centre/meta/color"|	NWSC	1	2	4	4	5	5	3	3 / 32
bgcolor=Template:Roundtable (Hong Kong)/meta/color |	Roundtable	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1 / 32
bgcolor=Template:Tsing Yi People/meta/color |	TYP	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1 / 32

District result maps

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Members represented

Starting from 1 January 2020:

Code	Constituency	Name	Political affiliation		Notes
S01	Kwai Hing	Leung Chi-shing style="width: 2px; background-color: #FFC500;" data-sort-value="Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre" |	NWSC
S02	Kwai Luen	Ng Kim-sing style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S03	Kwai Shing East Estate	Rayman Chow Wai-hung style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
S04	Upper Tai Wo Hau	Hui Kei-cheung style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S05	Lower Tai Wo Hau	Wong Bing-kuen style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S06	Kwai Chung Estate South	Wong Yun-tat style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
S07	Kwai Chung Estate North	Leung Kam-wai style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
S08	Shek Yam	Andrew Wan Siu-kin style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S09	Tai Pak Tin West	Kwok Fu-yung style="width: 2px; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" |	DAB
S10	Tai Pak Tin East	Lau Kwai-mui style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S11	On Yam	Leung Wing-kuen style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S12	Shek Lei North	Lam Siu-fai style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S13	Shek Lei South	Leung Kwok-wah style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S14	Kwai Fong	Leung Yiu-chung style="width: 2px; background-color: #FFC500;" data-sort-value="Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre" |	NWSC
S15	Hing Fong	Tong Ho-man style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S16	Wah Lai	Sin Chung-kai style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S17	Lai Wah	Steve Cheung Kwan-kiu style="width: 2px; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" |	Civic
S18	Cho Yiu	Choi Nga-man style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
S19	Lai King	Wong Tin-yan style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
S20	Kwai Shing West Estate	Leung Ching-shan style="width: 2px; background-color: #FFC500;" data-sort-value="Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre" |	NWSC
S21	On Ho	Warren Tam Ka-chun style="width: 2px; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" |	Civic
S22	Wai Ying	Sin Ho-fai style="width: 2px; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" |	Civic
S23	Tsing Yi Estate	Wong Pit-man style="width: 2px; background-color: #22E1E9;" data-sort-value="Tsing Yi People" |	Tsing Yi People
S24	Greenfield	Wong Chun-tat style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
S25	Cheung Ching	Hon Chun-yin style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S26	Cheung On	Tsui Hiu-kit style="width: 2px; background-color: #509ccd;" data-sort-value="Roundtable (Hong Kong)" |	Roundtable
S27	Shing Hong	Leung Kar-ming style="width: 2px; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" |	DAB
S28	Tsing Yi South	Kwok Tsz-kin style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
S29	Cheung Hang	Lo Yuen-ting style="width: 2px; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" |	DAB
S30	Ching Fat	Lau Chi-kit style="width: 2px; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
S31	Cheung On	Cheung Man-lung style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
Ex Officio	Tsing Yi Rural Committee Chairman	Chan Chi-wing style="width: 2px; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent

Leadership

Chairs

Since 1985, the chairman is elected by all the members of the board:

Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	John Ho Tung-ching	1985–1988	Nonpartisan
bgcolor="Template:HKADPL/meta/color"|	Lee Wing-tat	1988–1991	ADPL→United Democrat
bgcolor="Template:HKADPL/meta/color"|	Leung Kwong-cheong	1991–1994	ADPL→Democratic
bgcolor="Template:DPHK/meta/color"|	Sin Chung-kai	1994–1999	Democratic
bgcolor="Template:DPHK/meta/color"|	Chow Yick-hay	2000–2007	Democratic
bgcolor="Template:Heung Yee Kuk/meta/color"|	Tang Kwok-kong	2008–2011	Heung Yee Kuk
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Fong Ping	2011–2015	Independent→BPA
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Law King-shing	2016–2019	DAB
bgcolor="Template:DPHK/meta/color"|	Sin Chung-kai	2020–present	Democratic

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
style="background: Template:LPHK/meta/color"|	Edinson So Hoi-pan	2000–2003	Liberal
style="background: Template:Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre/meta/color"|	Leung Wing-keun	2004–2007	NWSC
style="background: Template:HKFTU/meta/color"|	Alice Mak Mei-kuen	2008–2011	FTU
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Law King-shing	2012–2015	DAB
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Chow Yick-hay	2016–2019	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Cheung Man-lung	2020–present	Independent