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Yau Tsim Mong District Council 油尖旺區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of the Yau Tsim Mong District
History
Founded	1 October 1994 (1994-10-01) (District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Lam Kin-man, Independent
Vice-Chair	Yu Tak-po, Civic
Structure
Seats	20 councillors consisting of 20 elected members
CM	5 / 20
Democratic	4 / 20
DAB	1 / 20
Civic	1 / 20
Independent	9 / 20
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	24 November 2019
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 Romanization Yàuh jīm wohng kēui yih wuih Jyutping Jau4 zim1 wong6 keoi1 ji6 wui6

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 20 constituencies, electing a total of 20 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 24 November 2019.

History

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

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

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	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	6	8	7	8	8	5	9	9 / 20
bgcolor=Template:Community March/meta/color |	CM	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	5 / 20
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color |	Democratic	1	4	4	1	1	1	4	4 / 20
bgcolor=Template:DAB/meta/color |	DAB	1	2	2	7	8	9	1	1 / 20
bgcolor=Template:Civic Party/meta/color |	Civic	-	-	-	0	0	1	1	1 / 20

District result maps

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  2019

Members represented

Starting from 1 January 2020:

Code	Constituency	Name	Political affiliation		Notes
E01	Tsim Sha Tsui West	Leslie Chan Ka-long style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E02	Kowloon Station	Derek Hung Chiu-wah style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" |	DAB
E03	Jordan West	Natalie Tsui Wai-fong style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #627da5;" data-sort-value="Power for Democracy" |	PfD
E04	Yau Ma Tei South	Suzanne Wu Sui-shan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #BDDC06;" data-sort-value="Community March" |	Community March
E05	Charming	Lee Wai-fung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
E06	Mong Kok West	Hui Tak-leung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E07	Fu Pak	Yu Tak-po style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" |	Civic
E08	Olympic	James To Kun-sun style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
E09	Cherry	Chung Chak-fai style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E10	Tai Kok Tsui South	Tsang Tsz-ming style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
E11	Tai Kok Tsui North	Owan Li style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E12	Tai Nan	Lee Kwok-kuen style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #BDDC06;" data-sort-value="Community March" |	Community March
E13	Mong Kok North	Lucifer Siu Tak-kin style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E14	Mong Kok East	Ben Lam Siu-pan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #BDDC06;" data-sort-value="Community March" |	Community March
E15	Mong Kok South	Chu Kong-wai style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #BDDC06;" data-sort-value="Community March" |	Community March
E16	Yau Ma Tei North	Lam Kin-man style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E17	East Tsim Sha Tsui & King's Park	Leo Chu Tsz-lok style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" |	Democratic
E18	Jordan North	Frank Ho Fu-wing style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E19	Jordan South	Chan Tsz-wai style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" |	Independent
E20	Tsim Sha Tsui Central	Ho Cheuk-hin style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #BDDC06;" data-sort-value="Community March" |	Community March

Leadership

Chairs

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

Chairman of Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei District Board

Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Mable Wong Chiu-woon	1981	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Wilfred Wong Ying-wai	1981–1984	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Bowen Joseph Leung Po-wing	1984–1985	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Chow Chun-fai (Mong Kok)	1985–1994	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Yip Wah (Yau Ma Tei)	1985–1994	Independent

Chairman of Yau Tsim Mong District Council

Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
bgcolor="Template:Nonpartisan/meta/color"|	Chow Chun-fai	1994–2003	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Henry Chan Man-yu	2004–2007	Independent
bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Chung Kong-mo	2008–2015	DAB
bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Chris Ip Ngo-tung	2016–2019	DAB
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Lam Kin-man	2020–present	Independent

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"|	Ip Kwok-chung	2000–2003	DAB
style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Leung Wai-kuen	2004–2011	Independent
style="background: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"|	Ko Po-ling	2008–2015	Independent
style="background: Template:Kowloon West New Dynamic/meta/color"|	Wong Shu-ming	2016–2019	KWND/BPA
style="background: Template:Civic Party/meta/color"|	Yu Tak-po	2020–present	Civic