Yau Tsim Mong District Council 油尖旺區議會 | |
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History | |
Founded | 1 October 1994 (District Board) 1 July 1997 (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (District Council) |
Leadership | |
Chair | Lam Kin-man, Independent |
Vice-Chair | Chu Tsz-lok, Democratic |
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Seats | 20 councillors consisting of 20 elected members |
1 / 20 | |
4 / 20 | |
15 / 20 | |
Elections | |
First past the post | |
Last election | 24 November 2019 |
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4/F., Mong Kok Government Offices, 30 Luen Wan Street, Kowloon | |
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Traditional Chinese | 油尖旺區議會 | ||||||||
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The Yau Tsim Mong District Council is the district council for the Yau Tsim Mong District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Yau Tsim Mong District Council currently consists of 20 members,of which the district is divided into 20 constituencies,electing a total of 20 members. It was merged from the Mong Kok District Board and Yau Tsim District Board in 1994 due to the significant drop of the population in the districts. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019.
The Yau Tsim Mong District Council was established on 1 October 1994 under the name of the Yau Tsim Mong District Board as the merger of Yau Tsim and Mong Kok District Boards. The two original District Boards was established as the result of the colonial Governor Murray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. The District Boards were partly elected with the ex-officio Urban Council members,as well as members appointed by the Governor. In 1992,the last Governor Chris Patten announced the small District Boards would be merged. As the total number of seats of the two boards were only 27,the boards were merged into Yau Tsim Mong District Board in the 1994 election with the appointed seats abolished.
The Yau Tsim Mong District Board became Yau Tsim Mong 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 Yau Tsim Mong 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 conservative independents dominated in the district as the lack of public housing estates made it difficult for the political parties to develop their community networks. The Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL),the Democratic Party and the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) had been the three major parties which had continuing presence in the district,until in the 2007 election in which the DAB took a total number of seven seats,far ahead of the Democratic Party's one seat and ADPL which lost all their seats.
Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) Legislative Councillor Priscilla Leung's Kowloon West New Dynamic also absorbed numbers of conservative independents following the 2015 election and became the second largest party in the council. However,the pro-Beijing parties suffered major setbacks in the 2019 election amid the massive pro-democracy protests,while a pro-democracy local political group Community March emerged as the largest party in the council with the pro-democrats controlling the council for the first time.
Since 1994 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:
Camp in control | Largest party | Years | Composition |
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Pro-Beijing | ADPL | 1994 - 1997 | |
Pro-Beijing | ADPL | 1997 - 1999 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2000 - 2003 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2004 - 2007 | |
Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2008 - 2011 | |
Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2012 - 2015 | |
Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2016 - 2019 | |
Pro-democracy | Community March →Democratic | 2020 - 2023 |
Elections are held every four years.
Political party | Council members | Current members | ||||||||||||||||||
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1994 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2019 | ||||||||||||||
Independent | 6 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 10 / 20 | ||||||||||||
CM | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 5 / 20 | ||||||||||||
Democratic | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 / 20 | ||||||||||||
DAB | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 1 / 20 | ||||||||||||
Starting from 1 January 2020:
Code | Constituency | Name | Political affiliation | Notes | |
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E01 | Tsim Sha Tsui West | Vacant | [lower-alpha 1] | ||
E02 | Kowloon Station | Derek Hung Chiu-wah | DAB | ||
E03 | Jordan West | Vacant | [lower-alpha 2] | ||
E04 | Yau Ma Tei South | Vacant | [lower-alpha 3] | ||
E05 | Charming | Lee Wai-fung | Democratic | ||
E06 | Mong Kok West | Hui Tak-leung | Independent | ||
E07 | Fu Pak | Vacant | [lower-alpha 4] [lower-alpha 5] | ||
E08 | Olympic | Vacant | [lower-alpha 6] | ||
E09 | Cherry | Chung Chak-fai | Independent | ||
E10 | Tai Kok Tsui South | Vacant | [lower-alpha 7] | ||
E11 | Tai Kok Tsui North | Vacant | [lower-alpha 8] | ||
E12 | Tai Nan | Vacant | [lower-alpha 9] | ||
E13 | Mong Kok North | Vacant | [lower-alpha 10] | ||
E14 | Mong Kok East | Vacant | [lower-alpha 7] | ||
E15 | Mong Kok South | Vacant | [lower-alpha 11] | ||
E16 | Yau Ma Tei North | Lam Kin-man | Independent | [lower-alpha 12] | |
E17 | East Tsim Sha Tsui &King's Park | Leo Chu Tsz-lok | Democratic | ||
E18 | Jordan North | Frank Ho Fu-wing | Independent | ||
E19 | Jordan South | Vacant | [lower-alpha 13] | ||
E20 | Tsim Sha Tsui Central | Vacant | [lower-alpha 7] | ||
Since 1985,the chairman is elected by all the members of the board:
Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
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Mable Wong Chiu-woon | 1981 | District Officer | |
Wilfred Wong Ying-wai | 1981–1984 | District Officer | |
Bowen Joseph Leung Po-wing | 1984–1985 | District Officer | |
Chow Chun-fai (Mong Kok) | 1985–1994 | Independent | |
Yip Wah (Yau Ma Tei) | 1985–1994 | Independent | |
Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
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Chow Chun-fai | 1994–2003 | Independent | |
Henry Chan Man-yu | 2004–2007 | Independent | |
Chung Kong-mo | 2008–2015 | DAB | |
Chris Ip Ngo-tung | 2016–2019 | DAB | |
Lam Kin-man | 2020–present | Independent |
Vice Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
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Ip Kwok-chung | 2000–2003 | DAB | |
Leung Wai-kuen | 2004–2011 | Independent | |
Ko Po-ling | 2008–2015 | Independent | |
Wong Shu-ming | 2016–2019 | KWND/BPA | |
Yu Tak-po | 2020–2021 | Civic→Independent | |
Chu Tsz-lok | 2021–present | Democratic |
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