Wong Tai Sin District Council

Wong Tai Sin District Council 黃大仙區議會
First past the post
Last election	10 December 2023
Meeting place
6/F Lung Cheung Office Block, 138 Lung Cheung Road, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/wts/

The Wong Tai Sin District Council (

The Wong Tai Sin District Board became Wong Tai Sin 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 Wong Tai Sin 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.

Due to the district's industrial character, the Wong Tai Sin District Council has been a stronghold for the pro-Beijing traditional leftists, returning one of its first directly elected Legislative Councillors

The district also bred high-profile politicians such as Andrew To, the youngest member elected to the District Board 1991, member of the United Democrats and the Democratic Party, secretary-general of The Frontier and chairman of the League of Social Democrats (LSD) who held his seat until his defeat in the 2011 election with the LSD being wiped out in the district. Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai was also a long-time Wong Tai Sin District Councillor, representing King Fu from 1999 to 2019.

The pro-democrats scored a historic landslide victory in the

Political control

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

Political makeup

District result maps

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Members represented

Leadership

Chairs

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

Vice Chairs

Notes

References

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