Southern District Council 南區區議會 | |
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Type | |
Type | |
History | |
Founded | 4 December 1981 (District Board) 1 July 1997 (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (District Council) |
Leadership | |
Chair | Francis Cheng Kong-chung, Independent |
Vice-Chair | Vacant |
Structure | |
Seats | 20 councillors consisting of 4 elected members 8 district committee members 8 appointed members |
7 / 20 | |
2 / 20 | |
2 / 20 | |
2 / 20 | |
1 / 20 | |
6 / 20 | |
Elections | |
First past the post | |
Last election | 10 December 2023 |
Meeting place | |
1/F., Ocean Court, 3 Aberdeen Praya Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong | |
Website | |
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Traditional Chinese | 南區區議會 | ||||||||
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Southern District Council is the district council for the Southern District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Southern District Council currently consists of 20 members,of which the district is divided into two constituencies,electing a total of 4 members,8 district committee members,and 8 appointed members. The last election was held on 24 November 2019.
The Southern District Council was established on 4 December 1981 under the name of the Southern 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 Southern District Board became Southern 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 Southern 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 Southern District Council has been dominated by the conservative independents. It was once the stronghold of the traditional political group Hong Kong Civic Association in the 1980s,in which they received a great victory in the 1985 election and elected its member Lam Kwok-kwong as the board chairman. [1] The Hong Kong Civic Association allied with the conservative Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDF) in the 1991 election,while the liberal United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) also established its presence in the district concentrated in Wah Fu Estate,led by Huang Chen-ya who was later elected to the Legislative Council in the same year.
The Southern District Council has been controlled by the pro-Beijing camp since 1997,even though the Democratic Party maintained their presence in Wah Fu and some other constituencies. It also bred its young party members Lo Kin-hei and Au Nok-hin who both took the Lei Tung constituencies away from long-held conservative independent councillors in the 2011 election. In the 2019 elections,the pro-democrats achieved the majority in the council in a historic landslide victory brought by the pro-democracy protests. Kelvin Lam Ho-por,a substitute for Joshua Wong who was disqualified from running,defeated Judy Chan Ka-pui of the New People's Party in South Horizons West.
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 | |
Pro-government | Civic Association | 1988 - 1991 | |
Pro-government | Civic Association | 1991 - 1994 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 1994 - 1997 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 1997 - 1999 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2000 - 2003 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2004 - 2007 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2008 - 2011 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2012 - 2015 | |
Pro-Beijing | Democratic | 2016 - 2019 | |
Pro-democracy →Pro-Beijing | Democratic →Liberal | 2020 - 2023 | |
Pro-Beijing | DAB | 2024 - 2027 |
Elections are held every four years.
Political party | Council members | Current members | ||||||||||||||||||
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1994 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2019 | ||||||||||||||
Independent | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 / 17 | ||||||||||||
Democratic | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 / 17 | ||||||||||||
Civic | - | - | - | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 / 17 | ||||||||||||
Liberal | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 / 17 | ||||||||||||
Starting from 1 January 2020:
Code | Constituency | Name | Political affiliation | Notes | |
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D01 | Southern District Southeast | Chan Wing-yan | FTU | ||
Jonathan Leung Chun | Liberal | ||||
D02 | Southern District Northwest | Cheung Wai-nam | DAB | ||
Sophia Lam Wing-yan | FTU | ||||
District Committees | Lam Wing-yee | Independent | |||
Cheung Chin-chung | Independent | ||||
Sunny Wong Choi-lap | DAB | ||||
Nicole Wong Yu-ching | NPP | ||||
Howard Chao | BPA | ||||
Victor Lau Ngai | DAB | ||||
Danny Siu Wai-chung | DAB | ||||
Adam Lai Ka-chi | BPA | ||||
Appointed Members | Roy Chu Lap-wai | DAB | |||
Vera Ho Yuen-wei | NPP | ||||
Li Kai-ying | DAB | ||||
Lam Yuk-chun | Independent | ||||
Chan Man-chun | Independent | ||||
Chan Yuk-kit | DAB | ||||
Pang Siu-kei | Independent | ||||
Jun Yeung Sheung-chun | Independent | ||||
Since 1985,the chairman is elected by all the members of the board:
Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
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Kwong Ki-chi | 1981–1984 | District Officer | |
Eddy Chan Yuk-tak | 1984–1985 | District Officer | |
Lam Kwok-kwong | 1985–1988 | Civic Association | |
Hui Yung-chung | 1988–1994 | Independent | |
Ko Tam-kan | 1994–1997 | Independent | |
Ma Yuet-har | 1997–1999 | Independent | |
Joseph Chan Yuek-sut | 2000–2003 | Independent | |
Ma Yuet-har | 2004–2011 | Independent | |
Chu Ching-hong | 2012–2019 | Independent | |
Lo Kin-hei | 2020–2021 | Democratic | |
Francis Cheng Kwok-chung | 2024–present | District Officer | |
Vice Chairman | Years | Political Affiliation | |
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Wong King-keung | 2000–2003 | Independent | |
Chu Ching-hong | 2004–2011 | Independent | |
Chan Fu-ming | 2012–2019 | Independent | |
Paulus Johannes Zimmerman | 2020–2023 | Independent | |
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