Central and Western District Council

Central and Western District Council 中西區區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of the Central and Western District
History
Founded	18 March 1982 (1982-03-18) (District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Cheng Lai-king, Democratic
Vice-Chair	Victor Yeung, Democratic
Structure
Seats	15 councillors consisting of 15 elected members
Democratic	6 / 15
Liberal	1 / 15
Civic	1 / 15
Independent	6 / 15
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	24 November 2019
Meeting place
11/F, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central, Hong Kong
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/central/

Central and Western District Council
Traditional Chinese	中西區區議會
Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jūng sāi kēui kēui yih wuih Jyutping Zung1 sai1 koei1 keoi1 ji6 wui6

The Central and Western District Council is the district council for the Central and Western District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Central and Western District Council currently consists of 15 members, of which the district is divided into 15 constituencies, electing a total of 15 members. The last election was held on 24 November 2019.

History

The Central and Western District Council was established on 18 March 1982 under the name of the Central and Western 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 Central and Western District Board became Central and Western 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 Central and Western 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 Central and Western Board was largely non-partisan in the 1980s. In the 1985 election, an electoral coalition of 12 incumbents based on personal network surrounding Vincent Ko Hon-chiu of the Hong Kong People's Association, later the board chairman, contested in the election, winning 10 seats in total. The board gradually divided into liberal and conservative blocs in the late 1980s and split into pro-democracy United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) and the conservative Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDF) which were formed in 1990.

The Democratic Party, the merger of UDHK and Meeting Point, took control of the board from 1994 to 1997 after the abolishment of the appointed seats. The Democratic majority was offset by the pro-Beijing camp when appointed seats were reintroduced in 1997. In the 2003 tide of democracy after the July 1 protest, the pro-democrats formed the Central and Western Democratic Power for the 2003 election and won seven seats, which saw pro-democrat Legislative Councillor Cyd Ho defeating Ip Kwok-him of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) in his long-held constituency of Kwun Lung. Democratic Party's Kam Nai-wai was able to take the chairmanship with the help of appointed member Wu Chor-nam. Kam's decision to co-operate with an appointed member sparked controversy which caused Kam to resign soon afterward.

The Democratic Party remained the largest party in the council until the 2007 election when the DAB surpassed the Democratic Party in the number of seats for the first time. In the by-elections in 2017 for Peak and Tung Wah, the pro-Beijing and pro-democracy camps took each of the seats, giving the Democrats the same numbers of seat as the DAB, both commanding five seats.

In the 2019 election amid the ongoing pro-democracy protests, the pro-democrats scored a historic landslide victory by taking 14 of the 15 seats, with DAB being completely wiped out from the council and its legislator Cheung Kwok-kwan being ousted in Sai Wan. The Democratic Party became the largest party with seven seats with Cheng Lai-king and Victor Yeung taking the chair and vice chair posts respectively.

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	Civic Association	1982 - 1985
No Overall Control	People's Association	1985 - 1988
No Overall Control	HKAS → United Democrats	1988 - 1991
Pro-government	United Democrats	1991 - 1994
Pro-democracy	Democratic (majority)	1994 - 1997
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	1997 - 1999
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	2000 - 2003
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	2004 - 2007
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	2008 - 2011
Pro-Beijing	DAB	2012 - 2015
Pro-Beijing	DAB → DAB/Democratic	2016 - 2019
Pro-democracy	Democratic	2020 - 2023

Political makeup

Elections are held every four years.

	Political party	Council members							Current members
		1994	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015	2019
bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color |	Independent	2	5	4	3	5	4	7	6 / 15
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color |	Democratic	8	5	6	6	4	4	7	6 / 15
bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color |	Liberal	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1 / 15
bgcolor=Template:Civic Party/meta/color |	Civic	-	-	1	0	-	-	1	1 / 15

District result maps

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Members represented

Starting from 1 January 2020:

Code	Constituency	Name	Political affiliation		Notes
A01	Chung Wan	Hui Chi-fung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
A02	Mid Levels East	Ng Siu-hong style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
A03	Castle Road	Cheng Lai-king style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
A04	Peak	Jeremy Young Chit-on style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00aeef;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Hong Kong)" |	Liberal
A05	University	Yam Ka-yi style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
A06	Kwun Lung	Vacant
A07	Kennedy Town & Mount Davis	Cherry Wong Kin-ching style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" |	Civic
A08	Sai Wan	Pang Ka-ho style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
A09	Belcher	Victor Yeung Sui-yin style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
A10	Shek Tong Tsui	Sam Yip Kam-lung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
A11	Sai Ying Pun	Wong Weng-chi style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
A12	Sheung Wan	Kam Nai-wai style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
A13	Tung Wah	Bonnie Ng Hoi-yan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
A14	Centre Street	Cheung Kai-yin style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
A15	Water Street	Ho Chi-wang style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent

Leadership

Chairs

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

Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	A. G. Cooper	1982–1983	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Lolly Chiu Yuen-chu	1983–1984	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Lam Kam-kwong	1984–1985	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Hong Kong People's Association/meta/color" |	Vincent Ko Hon-chiu	1985–1988	People's Association
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Ambrose Lau Hon-chuen	1988–1994	Nonpartisan→PA
bgcolor="Template:DPHK/meta/color"|	Yuen Bun-keung	1994–1997	Democratic
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Stephen Chan Chit-kwai	1997–2000	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Wu Chor-nam	2000–2003	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color"|	Chan Tak-chor	2004–2011	Liberal→Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Yip Wing-shing	2012–2019	Independent
style="background: Template:DPHK/meta/color"|	Cheng Lai-king	2020–present	Democratic

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
style="background: Template:LPHK/meta/color"|	Chan Tak-chor	2000–2003	Liberal
style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Wu Chor-nam	2004–2007	Independent
style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Stephen Chan Chit-kwai	2008–2011	Independent
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Chan Hok-fung	2012–2019	DAB
style="background: Template:DPHK/meta/color"|	Victor Yeung Sui-yin	2020–present	Democratic

External links

• Official website