Sham Shui Po District Council

Sham Shui Po District Council
深水埗區議會
Coat of arms or logo
Type
Type
Leadership
Chair
Vice-Chair
Chan Wai-ming, DAB
Structure
Seats 23 councillors
consisting of
23 elected members
9 / 23
5 / 23
4 / 23
1 / 23
1 / 23
1 / 23
1 / 23
1 / 23
Elections
First past the post
Last election
 22 November 2015
Meeting place
4/F Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices, 303 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/ssp/

Sham Shui Po District Council (Chinese: 深水埗區議會) is the district council for the Sham Shui Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 district councils. Sham Shui Po District currently consists of 23 members, of which the district is divided into 23 constituencies, electing a total of 23 members. The latest election was held on 22 November 2015.

Overview

Partly because of the large presence of the low-income group in Sham Shui Po, the area has bred many pro-grassroots politicians. The former chairman of the Sham Shui Po District Council, Tam Kwok-kiu, is a veteran local politician fighting for the interests of public housing tenants for many years.

Sham Shui Po is the stronghold of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL). Of the 23 District Councillors in Sham Shui Po, nine belong to his group, including former party chief Frederick Fung Kin-kee. Fung was returned to the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 2000 by direct election in the geographical constituency of Kowloon West, in which Sham Shui Po is the biggest area.

However, Hong Kong's largest pro-government and pro-Beijing party, the Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), has gained a foothold in Sham Shui Po too. In 2000, Tsang Yok-sing, the then chairman of DAB and member of the Executive Council, Hong Kong SAR chief executive Tung Chee-hwa's inner cabinet, won a seat in the Legislative Council representing the Kowloon West constituency, which includes Sham Shui Po.

The pan-democrats have been less successful at canvassing grass-roots support. Pro-Beijing politicians have won favour in Sham Shui Po by organizing such things as free banquets and tours to southern China.

In the 2015 Hong Kong District Council election, the district's first election after Umbrella Revolution, the pan-democrats have 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.

Political control

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

Camp in control Largest party Years
No Overall Control PCPHP 1982 - 1985
No Overall Control Civic Association 1985 - 1988
No Overall Control ADPL 1988 - 1991
No Overall Control 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 ADPL 2016 - present

Political makeup

Elections are held every four years.

    Political party Council members Current members
1994 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015
  ADPL 11 10 13 10 7 9                  
  DAB 0 3 1 3 4 5                  
  KWND/BPA - - - - 1 4                  
  Civic - - - - 0 1                  
  Democratic 3 3 2 2 0 1                  
  Liberal 1 - 0 - 0 1                  
  FLU - - 1 1 1 1                  
  FTU - - - - - -                  
  Independent 3 4 4 5 9 1                  

Members represented

Code Constituency Name Political affiliation
F01 Po Lai Leung Yau-fong ADPL
F02 Cheung Sha Wan Aaron Lam Ka-fai KWND/BPA
F03 Nam Cheong North Vincent Cheng Wing-shun DAB
F04 Shek Kip Mei Chan Kwok-wai KWND/BPA
F05 Nam Cheong East Kalvin Ho Kai-ming ADPL
F06 Nam Cheong South Wong Kam-kuen FLU
F07 Nam Cheong Central Lau Pui-yuk DAB
F08 Nam Cheong West Wai Woon-nam ADPL
F09 Fu Cheong Leung Man-kwong KWND/BPA
F10 Lai Kok Chan Wing-yan DAB/FTU
F11 Fortune Zoe Chow Wing-heng ADPL
F12 Lai Chi Kok South Yeung Yuk ADPL
F13 Mei Foo South Wong Tat-tung DAB
F14 Mei Foo Central Ng Yuet-lan Civic
F15 Mei Foo North Ambrose Cheung Wing-sum Independent
F16 Lai Chi Kok Central Ramon Yuen Hoi-man Democratic
F17 Lai Chi Kok North Chum Tak-shing ADPL
F18 Un Chau & So Uk Chan Wai-ming DAB
F19 Lei Cheng Uk Kong Kwai-sang ADPL
F20 Ha Pak Tin Yan Kai-wing KWND/BPA
F21 Yau Yat Tsuen Dominic Lee Tsz-king Liberal
F22 Nam Shan, Tai Hang Tung & Tai Hang Sai Tam Kwok-kiu ADPL
F23 Lung Ping & Sheung Pak Tin Carmen Ng Mei ADPL

Leadership

Chairs

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

Chairman Years Political Affiliation
Stephen Ip Shu-kwan 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–present Independent

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–present DAB

References

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

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