Yau Tsim Mong District Council

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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 two constituencies, electing a total of 4 members, 8 district committee members, and 8 appointed 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 10 December 2023.

Yau Tsim Mong District Council

油尖旺區議會
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
History
Founded1 October 1994 (1994-10-01) (District Board)
1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional)
1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair
Edward Yu Kin-keung, Independent
Structure
Seats20 councillors
consisting of
4 elected members
8 district committee members
8 appointed members
8 / 20
4 / 20
2 / 20
6 / 20
Elections
First past the post
Last election
10 December 2023
Meeting place
4/F., Mong Kok Government Offices, 30 Luen Wan Street, Kowloon
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/ytm/
Yau Tsim Mong District Council
Traditional Chinese油尖旺區議會
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationYàuh jīm wohng kēui yih wuih
JyutpingJau4 zim1 wong6 keoi1 ji6 wui6

History

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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.

Political control

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Since 1994 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

Camp in control Largest party Years Composition
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




Pro-Beijing DAB 2024 - 2027




Political makeup

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Elections are held every four years.

    Political party Council members Current
members
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

District result maps

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Members represented

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Capacity Code Constituency Name Political affiliation Term Notes
Elected E01 Yau Tsim Mong South Chris Ip Ngo-tung DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Guan Weixi Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent
E02 Yau Tsim Mong North Lee Ka-hin DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Li Sze-man BPA 1 January 2024 Incumbent
District Committees Benjamin Choi Siu-fung DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Craig Jo Chun-wah DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Lau Pak-kei DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Alex Poon King-wo DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Suen Chi-man FTU 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Wong Kin-san BPA 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Luk Tsz-fung Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Michelle Tang Ming-sum Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Appointed Benny Yeung Tsz-hei DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Edmong Chung Kong-mo DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Au Chor-kwan Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Hui Tak-leung FTU 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Chan Siu-tong BPA 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Rowena Wong Shu-ming BPA 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Chung Chak-fai Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent
Aruna Gurung Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent

Leadership

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Chairs

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Emblem of Mong Kok District Board (left) and Yau Ma Tei/Yau Tsim District Board (right) (1982–1994)

Between 1985 and 2023, the chairman is elected by all the members of the board.

Chairman Years Political Affiliation
Chairman of Mong Kok District Board
and Yau Tsim Mong District Board
Mable Wong Chiu-woon 1981 District Officer
Wilfred Wong Ying-wai 1981–1984 District Officer
Bowen Joseph Leung Po-wing 1984–1985 District Officer
Chairman of Yau Ma Tei District Board
Yip Wah 1985–1994 Independent
Chairman of Mong Kok District Board
Chow Chun-fai 1985–1994 Independent
Chairman of Yau Tsim Mong District Board
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 2020–2023 Independent
Edward Yu Kin-keung 2024–present District Officer

Vice Chairs

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Vice Chairman Years Political Affiliation
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 CivicIndependent
Chu Tsz-lok 2021–2023 Democratic

Notes

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References

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