Kwai Tsing District Council

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Kwai Tsing District Council

葵青區議會
First past the post
Last election
10 December 2023
Meeting place
10/F, Kwai Hing Government Offices, 166–174 Hing Fong Road, Kwai Chung
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/kwt/

The Kwai Tsing District Council (

district council for the Kwai Tsing District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. It currently consists of 32 members of which 6 are directly elected from the three constituencies of the district, 12 district committee members, 13 appointed members, and one ex-officio member who is the Tsing Yi Rural Committee chairman. The latest election was held on 10 December 2023
.

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

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

, 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 → Pro-Beijing Democratic → DAB 2020–2023



Pro-Beijing DAB 2024–2027



Political makeup

Elections
are held every four years.

    Political party Council members Current
members
1994 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
  Democratic 9 10 11 9 9 4 12
11 / 32
 
Independent
9 13 9 8 8 4 9
12 / 32
  DAB 0 2 1 4 5 8 3
3 / 32
 
NWSC
1 2 4 4 5 5 3
2 / 32
  Roundtable - - - - - - 1
1 / 32
  TYP - - - - - - 1
1 / 32

District result maps

  • 1994
    1994
  • 1999
    1999
  • 2003
    2003
  • 2007
    2007
  • 2011
    2011
  • 2015
    2015
  • 2019
    2019

Members represented

Capacity Code Constituency Name Term Political affiliation Notes
Elected S01 Tsing Yi Lo Yuen-ting 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Pang Yap-ming 1 January 2024 Incumbent FTU
S02 Kwai Tsing East Jody Kwok Fu-yung 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Chau Kit-ying 1 January 2024 Incumbent FTU
S03 Kwai Tsing West Chan On-ni 1 January 2024 Incumbent FTU
Wong Chun-yeung 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
District Committees Ng Kin-wah 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Tang Lai-ling 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Lam Ying-wai 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Yuen Yun-hung 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Wong Shuk-man 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Benny Ng Yam-fung 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Ng Chi-wah 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Wong Siu-kwan 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Lee Wai-lok 1 January 2024 Incumbent FTU
Ariel Mok Yee-ki 1 January 2024 Incumbent BPA
James Lau Hing-wah 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Guo Huimin 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Appointed Chu Lai-ling 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Leung Kar-ming 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Poon Chi-sing 1 January 2024 Incumbent DAB
Lau Mei-lo 1 January 2024 Incumbent FTU
Au Chi-fai 1 January 2024 Incumbent FTU
So Pak-tsan 1 January 2024 Incumbent FTU
Wang Chung-wing 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Chow Kim-ho 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Lam Chui-ling 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Jonathan Tsui Hui-kit 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Chan Oi-yi 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Yip Cheung-chun 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Cheng Lam 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent
Ex Officio Tsing Yi Rural Committee Chairman Chan Chi-wing 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Independent

Leadership

Chairs

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

Chairman Years Political Affiliation
John Ho Tung-ching 1985–1988
Nonpartisan
Lee Wing-tat 1988–1991
Leung Kwong-cheong 1991–1994
Democratic
Sin Chung-kai 1994–1999
Democratic
Chow Yick-hay 2000–2007
Democratic
Tang Kwok-kong 2008–2011 Heung Yee Kuk
Fong Ping 2011–2015
BPA
Law King-shing 2016–2019
DAB
Sin Chung-kai 2020–2021
Democratic
Leung Kam-wai 2021–2023
Independent
Huggin Tang 2024–present
Nonpartisan

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairman Years Political Affiliation
Edinson So Hoi-pan 2000–2003
Liberal
Leung Wing-keun 2004–2007 NWSC
Alice Mak Mei-kuen
2008–2011
FTU
Law King-shing 2012–2015
DAB
Chow Yick-hay 2016–2019
Independent
Cheung Man-lung 2020–2021
Independent

Notes

References