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Sha Tin District Council
Sha Tin District Council
Traditional Chinese	沙田區議會
Yale Romanization
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Sā tìhn kēui yíh wúih
Jyutping	Saa1 tin4 keoi1 ji5 wui5

Sha Tin District Council

沙田區議會
Sha Tin District Council ; 沙田區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of the Sha Tin District
History
Founded	1 April 1981 (District Board); 1 July 1997 (Provisional); 1 January 2000 (District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Vacant
Vice-Chair	Vacant
Structure
Seats	42 councillors; consisting of; 41 elected and; 1 ex officio member
Democratic	2 / 42
DAB	1 / 42
BPA	1 / 42
Independent	5 / 42
Vacant	33 / 42
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	24 November 2019
Meeting place
	4/F Sha Tin Government Offices, 1 Sheung Wo Che Road, Sha Tin, New Territories
Website
	www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/st/

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The Sha Tin District Council is the district council for the Sha Tin District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Sha Tin District Council currently consists of 42 members, of which the district is divided into 41 constituencies, electing a total of 41 with 1 ex officio member who is the Sha Tin rural committee chairman. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019.

History

The Sha Tin District Council was established on 1 April 1981 under the name of the Sha Tin 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 Regional Council members and Sha Tin Rural Committee chairman, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member.

The Sha Tin District Board became Sha Tin 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 Sha Tin District Council was established on 1 January 2000 after the first District Council election in 1999. The appointed seats were abolished in 2015 after the modified constitutional reform proposal was passed by the Legislative Council in 2010.

As a new town in the 1980s, Sha Tin was a strategic target for emerging pro-democracy activists, when the three major pro-democracy political groups Hong Kong Affairs Society (HKAS), Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) and Meeting Point formed a strategic alliance in the 1988 District Board election, which saw prominent politicians Fung Chi-wood, Lau Kong-wah and Choy Kan-pui launched their political careers. Lau and Choy later quit the pro-democracy United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) after the 1991 Legislative Council direct election and formed a new district-based political group Civil Force in which all its candidates were elected in the 1994 election and have been dominating the council since.^[1]

The 2000s saw the intense competitions between the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) and the Democratic Party, which saw the DAB dropped its seat from 1999 election's nine to 2003 election's two due to the anti-government sentiments following the historic 2003 July 1 protest, many of those in Ma On Shan fallen into the Democrats' hand with the defeats of Lau Kong-wah and Chan Hak-kan in Kam To and Chung On. The DAB rebounded from its defeat in the 2007 election, retaking most of its seats from the Democrats.

In 2014, Regina Ip's New People's Party (NPP) expanded its network to Sha Tin by absorbing the Civil Force, making NPP the largest party in the district. In the 2015 District Council election, the first election after the Umbrella Revolution, the pan-democrats made a surprising advance in the district, doubling their seats from 8 to 19 seats by defeating a number of veteran Civil Force councillors. The DAB also suffered some unexpected defeats in Ma On Shan, with incumbent Legislative Councillor Elizabeth Quat lost her seat to Labour Party new face Yip Wing in Chung On. However, The pro-Beijing camp was able to retain control of the council with a one-seat majority of the ex-officio seat occupied by the Sha Tin Rural Committee chairman.^[2]

In the historic landslide victory in 2019, the pro-democrats took control of the council by sweeping 40 of the 41 elected seats. Only the new constituency Di Yee was won by pro-Beijing DAB as two pro-democrat candidates split the votes which gave the DAB the victory.

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	None	1982–1985
Pro-government	None	1985–1988
Pro-government	Hong Kong Affairs Society	1988–1991
Pro-government	United Democrats	1991–1994
Pro-Beijing	Civil Force	1994–1997
Pro-Beijing	Civil Force	1997–1999
Pro-Beijing	Civil Force	2000–2003
Pro-Beijing	Civil Force	2004–2007
Pro-Beijing	Civil Force	2008–2011
Pro-Beijing	Civil Force → NPP/CF	2012–2015
Pro-Beijing	NPP/CF	2016–2019
Pro-democracy	Civic → Democratic	2020–2023

Political makeup

Elections are held every four years. As of October 19, 2020:

Political party	Council members							Current members
Political party	1994	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015	2019	Current members
Independent	11	6	8	7	6	7	19	27 / 42
Democratic	8	3	7	3	5	7	6	6 / 42
Civic	-	-	-	0	0	0	7	2 / 42
DAB	0	9	2	8	9	7	1	1 / 42
Labour	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1 / 42
LSD	-	-	-	0	0	0	1	1 / 42
STCV	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1 / 42
BPA	-	-	-	-	-	0	-	1 / 42

District result maps

1994
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019

Members represented

Starting from 1 January 2020:

Code	Constituency	Name	Political affiliation		Notes
R01	Sha Tin Town Centre	Wai Hing-cheung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	^[a]
R02	Lek Yuen	Vacant			^[b]^[c]
R03	Wo Che Estate	Vacant			^[a]^[d]
R04	City One	Vacant			^[e]
R05	Yue Shing	Vacant			^[b]^[d]
R06	Wong Uk	Vacant			^[b]^[d]
R07	Sha Kok	Vacant			^[b]^[f]
R08	Pok Hong	Vacant			^[b]^[f]^[g]
R09	Shui Chuen O	Vacant			^[b]^[d]
R10	Jat Chuen	Vacant			^[b]^[f]^[g]
R11	Chun Fung	Vacant			^[b]^[a]^[h]
R12	Sun Tin Wai	Vacant			^[i]
R13	Chui Tin	Vacant			^[b]^[f]^[g]
R14	Hin Ka	Vacant			^[i]
R15	Lower Shing Mun	Vacant			^[b]^[a]^[d]
R16	Wan Shing	Vacant			^[f]^[i]
R17	Keng Hau	Vacant			^[b]^[a]^[d]
R18	Tin Sum	Vacant			^[b]^[j]
R19	Chui Ka	Vacant			^[f]^[k]
R20	Tai Wai	Vacant			^[l]
R21	Chung Tin	Vacant			^[b]^[d]
R22	Sui Wo	Vacant			^[h]^[m]
R23	Fo Tan	Vacant			^[n]^[j]
R24	Chun Ma	Felix Chow Hiu-laam style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" \|	Democratic
R25	Hoi Nam	Vacant			^[o]
R26	Chung On	Vacant			^[i]
R27	Kam To	Hui Lap-san style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
R28	Ma On Shan Town Centre	Chung Lai-him style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
R29	Wu Kai Sha	Vacant			^[b]^[a]
R30	Lee On	Chris Mak Yun-pui style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	^[a]
R31	Fu Lung	Vacant			^[g]
R32	Kam Ying	Vacant			^[p]
R33	Yiu On	Sin Cheuk-nam style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" \|	Democratic
R34	Heng On	Vacant			^[d]
R35	Tai Shui Hang	Vacant			^[q]
R36	On Tai	Cheng Chung-hang style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
R37	Yu Yan	Vacant			^[i]
R38	Di Yee	Lam Kong-kwan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" \|	DAB
R39	Bik Woo	Vacant			^[h]
R40	Kwong Hong	Vacant			^[g]
R41	Kwong Yuen	Vacant			^[i]
Ex Officio	Sha Tin Rural Committee Chairman	Mok Kam-kwai style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #78caec;" data-sort-value="Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong" \|	BPA

Leadership

Chairs

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

	Years	Political Affiliation
P. H. Hase	1981–1982	District Officer
Donald Tsang Yam-kuen	1982–1984	District Officer
Paul Tang Kwok-wai	1984–1985	District Officer
Ng Chan-lam	1985–1991	Nonpartisan
Choy Kan-pui	1991–1999	United Democrat→Civil Force→PA
Wai Kwok-hung	2000–2011	Civil Force
Ho Hau-cheung	2012–2019	Civil Force→NPP/CF
Ching Cheung-ying	2020–2021	Democratic

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
	Thomas Pang Cheung-wai	2000–2019	DAB
	Wong Hok-lai	2020–2021	Community Sha Tin

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Former Democratic Party member.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Former Community Sha Tin member.
^ Resigned on 8 July 2021 after being arrested under national security law.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Disqualified on 8 October 2021 after his oath was invalid.
^ Resigned on 3 June 2021 over new oath-taking laws.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Former Neo Democrats member.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Resigned on 8 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c Former Civic Party member.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Resigned on 7 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b Resigned on 14 July 2021.
^ Resigned on 9 July 2021.
^ Disqualified on 8 October 2021 after her oath was invalid.
^ Resigned on 10 July 2021.
^ Former Civic Party member.
^ Resigned on 3 October 2021.
^ Resigned on 31 May 2021 over new oath-taking laws.
^ Resigned on 11 July 2021.

References

^ "【泛民怎樣光復一區 2】三十年河東莫欺少年窮". 立場新聞. 18 December 2015.
^ "【建制僅比泛民多一席】沙田區議會 39議員全部加入所有委員會". 立場新聞. 9 January 2016.

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[fn1-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Former Democratic Party member.

[cst-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ Former Community Sha Tin member.

[resigneda-5] Resigned on 8 July 2021 after being arrested under national security law.

[disqualified1-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Disqualified on 8 October 2021 after his oath was invalid.

[resigned1-7] Resigned on 3 June 2021 over new oath-taking laws.

[fn2-8] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Former Neo Democrats member.

[resigned4-9] Resigned on 8 July 2021.

[fn3-10] Former Civic Party member.

[resigned3-11] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Resigned on 7 July 2021.

[resigned8-12] Resigned on 14 July 2021.

[resigned5-13] Resigned on 9 July 2021.

[disqualified2-14] Disqualified on 8 October 2021 after her oath was invalid.

[resigned6-15] Resigned on 10 July 2021.

[formercivic-16] Former Civic Party member.

[resigned9-17] Resigned on 3 October 2021.

[resigned2-18] Resigned on 31 May 2021 over new oath-taking laws.

[resigned7-19] Resigned on 11 July 2021.

[1] "【泛民怎樣光復一區 2】三十年河東莫欺少年窮". 立場新聞. 18 December 2015.

[2] "【建制僅比泛民多一席】沙田區議會 39議員全部加入所有委員會". 立場新聞. 9 January 2016.

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v t e Sha Tin District Council (42)
CST (11)	Chun Fung Chung Tin Kam Ying Keng Hau Lower Shing Mun Pok Hong Shui Chuen O Tin Sum Wong Uk Wu Kai Sha Yue Shing
Civic (6)	Bik Woo City One Fo Tan Hoi Nam Sui Wo Tai Shui Hang
Democratic (6)	Chun Ma Fu Lung Heng On Sun Tin Wai Tai Wai Yiu On
DAB (1)	Di Yee
Labour (1)	Chung On
ND (1)	Wan Shing
LSD (1)	Lek Yuen
Independent (13)	Chui Ka Chui Tin Hin Ka Jat Chuen Kam To Kwong Hong Kwong Yuen Lee On Ma On Shan Town Centre On Tai Sha Kok Sha Tin Town Centre Wo Che Estate Yu Yan
Ex-officio member: BPA (1) (Sha Tin Rural Committee)

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