Sham Shui Po District Council

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Sham Shui Po District Council

深水埗區議會
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Hong Kong District Council
of the Sham Shui Po District
History
Founded22 October 1981 (1981-10-22) (District Board)
1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional)
1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair
Chum Tak-shing, ADPL
Vice-Chair
Ng Yuet-lan, Independent
Structure
Seats25 councillors
consisting of
25 elected members
2 / 25
2 / 25
Democratic
1 / 25
Independent
3 / 25
17 / 25
Elections
First past the post
Last election
24 November 2019
Meeting place
Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices.JPG
4/F Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices, 303 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/ssp/
Sham Shui Po District Council
Traditional Chinese深水埗區議會

The Sham Shui Po District Council is the district council for the Sham Shui Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Sham Shui Po District Council currently consists of 25 members, of which the district is divided into 25 constituencies, electing a total of 25 members. The last election was held on 24 November 2019.

History[]

The Sham Shui Po District Council was established on 22 October 1981 under the name of the Sham Shui Po 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 Sham Shui Po District Board became Sham Shui Po 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 Sham Shui Po 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.

Partly because of the large presence of the low-income group in Sham Shui Po, the area has bred many pro-grassroots politicians. Social activists from the grassroots political groups Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy and the Sham Shui Po Residents Livelihood Concern Group had their roots in the district, which later formed the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), one of the earlier pro-democracy political groups in the 1980s.

With the strong presence of the ADPL in the district, the ADPL gained majority of the council from 1994 to 1997 and took control of the council from 2000 to 2007 with its pro-democracy allies. It also returned its longtime chairman Frederick Fung in the Kowloon West constituency, in which Sham Shui Po is the biggest area, to the Legislative Council from 1991 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2012.

However, Hong Kong's largest pro-government and pro-Beijing party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), gained a foothold in Sham Shui Po in recent years with large amount of resources. In the 2007 District Council election, the pan-democrats lost control of the council for the first time, in which the seats commanded by pro-democracy and pro-Beijing forces were split even with the help of the government-appointed seats. The ADPL suffered further loss in the 2011 District Council election, losing the control of the council to the pro-Beijing camp.

In the 2015 District Council election, the district's first election after Umbrella Revolution, the pan-democrats regained almost half of the seats in the district council with 11 seats in their possession. as composed to pro-Beijing camp's 12 seats, despite the downfall of Frederick Fung in his Lai Kok constituency, being defeated by a DAB new face Chan Wing-yan.

Amid the massive pro-democracy protests, the pro-democrats scored a historic landslide victory by taking 22 of the 25 seats in the 2019 District Council election. The ADPL retained the status of the largest party, securing 11 seats in total.

Political control[]

Since 1982 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

Camp in control Largest party Years Composition
No Overall Control PCPHP 1982 - 1985
Pro-government Civic Association 1985 - 1988



Pro-government ADPL 1988 - 1991



Pro-government ADPL 1991 - 1994




Pro-democracy ADPL (majority) 1994 - 1997




Pro-democracy ADPL 1997 - 1999




Pro-democracy ADPL 2000 - 2003




Pro-democracy ADPL 2004 - 2007




No Overall Control ADPL 2008 - 2011




Pro-Beijing ADPL 2012 - 2015




Pro-Beijing → NOC ADPL 2016 - 2019




Pro-democracy ADPL 2020 - 2023




Political makeup[]

Current Map of Sham Shui Po District Council.svg

Elections are held every four years.

    Political party Council members Current
members
1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
  ADPL 11 10 13 10 7 9 11
11 / 25
  Independent 3 4 4 5 9 1 6
7 / 25
  DAB 0 3 1 3 4 5 2
2 / 25
  Democratic 3 3 2 2 0 1 2
2 / 25
  CSWCEP - - - - - 0 1
1 / 25
  - - - - - - 1
1 / 25

District result maps[]

  • 1994

  • 1999

  • 2003

  • 2007

  • 2011

  • 2015

  • 2019

Members represented[]

Starting from 1 January 2020:

Code Constituency Name Political affiliation Notes
F01 Po Lai Mak Wai-ming Independent [a]
F02 Cheung Sha Wan Vacant [b]
F03 Nam Cheong North Vacant [c][d]
F04 Shek Kip Mei Vacant [e]
F05 Nam Cheong East Vacant [f]
F06 Nam Cheong South Li Ting-fung ADPL
F07 Nam Cheong Central Lau Pui-yuk DAB
F08 Nam Cheong West Vacant [e]
F09 Fu Cheong Vacant [g]
F10 Lai Kok Vacant [g]
F11 Fortune Vacant [e]
F12 Pik Wui Vacant [g]
F13 Lai Chi Kok Central Ramon Yuen Hoi-man Democratic
F14 Lai Chi Kok South Vacant [e]
F15 Mei Foo South Vacant [h]
F16 Mei Foo Central Ng Yuet-lan Independent [c]
F17 Mei Foo North Vacant [c][g]
F18 Lai Chi Kok North Chum Tak-shing ADPL
F19 Un Chau Vacant [g]
F20 So Uk Ho Kwan-chau DAB
F21 Lei Cheng Uk Vacant [e]
F22 Lung Ping & Sheung Pak Tin Carmen Ng Mei Independent [i]
F23 Ha Pak Tin Vacant [j][e]
F24 Yau Yat Tsuen Vacant [b]
F25 Nam Shan, Tai Hang Tung & Tai Hang Sai Vacant [g]

Leadership[]

Chairs[]

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

Chairman Years Political Affiliation
Stephen Ip 1981–1983 District Officer
M. J. White 1983 District Officer
Tse Tak-kan 1983–1985 District Officer
Stephen Cheng Po-hong 1985–1991 Nonpartisan
Raymond Choy Wai-shek 1991–1994 LDF
Eric Wong Chung-ki 1994–1997 ADPL
Tam Kwok-kiu 1997–2007 ADPL
Chan Tung 2008–2011 Independent
Jimmy Kwok Chun-wah 2012–2015 ES→BPA
Ambrose Cheung Wing-sum 2016–2019 Independent
Yeung Yuk 2020–2021 ADPL
Chum Tak-shing 2021–present ADPL

Vice Chairs[]

Vice Chairman Years Political Affiliation
Chan Tung 2000–2003 Independent
Leung Lai 2004–2007 ADPL
Tam Kwok-kiu 2008–2011 ADPL
Wong Tat-tung 2012–2015 DAB
Chan Wai-ming 2016–2019 DAB
Ng Yuet-lan 2020–present Civic→Independent

Notes[]

  1. ^ Former Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood member.
  2. ^ a b Disqualified on 24 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Former Civic Party member.
  4. ^ Resigned on 11 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Resigned on 8 July 2021.
  6. ^ Resigned on 10 July 2021 after being arrested under national security law.
  7. ^ a b c d e f Resigned on 7 July 2021.
  8. ^ Resigned.
  9. ^ Elected as Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood member from 2003 to 2015.
  10. ^ Elected as Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong member in 2015.

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Coordinates: 22°19′55″N 114°09′49″E / 22.3319°N 114.1635°E / 22.3319; 114.1635

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