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Wong Tai Sin District Council 黃大仙區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of the Wong Tai Sin District
History
Founded	6 May 1981 (1981-05-06) (District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Hui Kam-shing, ADPL
Vice-Chair	Wong Yat-yuk, Independent
Structure
Seats	25 councillors consisting of 25 elected members
Democratic	6 / 25
ADPL	3 / 25
TWSCP	2 / 25
PP	1 / 25
CHESSA	1 / 25
Independent	11 / 25
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	24 November 2019
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 (Chinese: 黃大仙區議會) is one of 18 such district councils in Hong Kong, representing the Wong Tai Sin District. The Wong Tai Sin District Council currently consists of 25 members, each elected from one of 25 constituencies. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019.

History

The Wong Tai Sin District Council was established on 6 May 1981 under the name of the Wong Tai Sin 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 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 Chan Yuen-han, who was member of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) and represented the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB). The pro-democrats also had their influence in the district, seeing Conrad Lam of the United Democrats of Hong Kong elected to the Legislative Council in 1985 and 1991.

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 2019 election amid the massive pro-democracy protests by taking all the seats in the council. The pro-Beijing councillors were completely wiped out as a result, with Democratic Party becoming the largest party.

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
Pro-government	Civic Association	1985–1988
Pro-government	Civic Association	1988–1991
Pro-government	LDF	1991–1994
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	1994–1997
Pro-Beijing	Democratic	1997–1999
Pro-Beijing	Democratic → DAB	2000–2003
Pro-Beijing	DAB	2004–2007
Pro-Beijing	DAB	2008–2011
Pro-Beijing	DAB	2012–2015
Pro-Beijing	DAB	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	10	12	8	9	8	10	11 / 25
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color |	Democratic	5	7	4	3	3	3	6	6 / 25
style="background-color:Template:Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood/meta/color"|	ADPL	3	2	2	2	2	2	3	3 / 25
bgcolor=Template:Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power/meta/color |	TWSCP	-	-	-	-	-	0	2	2 / 25
bgcolor=Template:People Power (Hong Kong)/meta/color |	People Power	-	-	-	-	-	0	1	1 / 25
bgcolor=Template:Choi Hung Estate Social Service Association/meta/color |	CHESSA	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1 / 25

District result maps

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Members represented

Starting from 1 January 2020:

Code	Constituency	Name	Political affiliation		Notes
H01	Lung Tsui	Chong Ting-wai style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H02	Lung Ha	Kwok Sau-ying style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H03	Lung Sheung	Chan Chun-yue style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H04	Fung Wong	Tang Wai-keung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
H05	Fung Tak	Cheung Ka-yi style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F2971B;" data-sort-value="Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power" |	TWSCP
H06	Lung Sing	Tam Heung-man style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H07	San Po Kong	Chan Kai-shun style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H08	Tung Tau	Hiroko Wan Chi-chung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FDD12B;" data-sort-value="People Power (Hong Kong)" |	People Power
H09	Tung Mei	Sze Tak-loy style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" |	ADPL
H10	Lok Fu	Leung Ming-hong style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H11	Wang Tau Hom	Vacant
H12	Tin Keung	Jay Cheng Man-kit style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H13	Tsui Chuk & Pang Ching	Yau Hon-pong style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H14	Chuk Yuen South	Hui Kam-shing style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" |	ADPL
H15	Chuk Yuen North	Cheng Tsz-kin style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H16	Tsz Wan West	Cheung Mau-ching style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
H17	Ching Oi	Sham Yu-hin style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F2971B;" data-sort-value="Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power" |	TWSCP
H18	Ching On	Roger Wong Yat-yuk style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H19	Tsz Wan East	Mok Yee-ha style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
H20	King Fu	Rosanda Mok Ka-han style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
H21	Choi Wan East	Liu Sing-lee style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" |	ADPL
H22	Choi Wan South	Shum Wan-wa style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
H23	Choi Wan West	Chan Lee-shing style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
H24	Chi Choi	Wu Chi-kin style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
H25	Choi Hung	Sean Mock Ho-chit style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #468CA8;" data-sort-value="Choi Hung Estate Social Service Association" |	CHESSA

Leadership

Chairs

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

Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	I. R. Strachan	1981–1983	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Chuk Kin-fan	1983–1985	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Michael Cheng Tak-kin	1985–1988	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Michael Lee Yuk-kwan	1988–1991	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong/meta/color"|	Chan Kam-man	1991–1999	LDF
bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Lam Man-fai	2000–2003	DAB
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Wong Kam-chi	2004–2007	Independent
bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Li Tak-hong	2008–2019	DAB
bgcolor="Template:HKADPL/meta/color"|	Hui Kam-shing	2020–present	ADPL

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Wong Kam-chi	2000–2003	Independent
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Kan Chi-ho	2004–2007	DAB
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Wong Kam-chi	2008–2011	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Wong Kam-chiu	2012–2015	Independent
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Joe Lai Wing-ho	2016–2019	DAB
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Wong Yat-yuk	2020–present	Independent