Eastern District Council

Eastern District Council
Eastern District Council
Traditional Chinese	東區區議會
Simplified Chinese	东区区议会
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Dōngqūqūyìhuì
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Dūng kēui kēui yíh wúih
Jyutping	Dung1 keoi1 keoi1 ji5 wui5

Eastern District Council

東區區議會
Eastern District Council ; 東區區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of the Eastern District, Hong Kong
History
Founded	28 October 1981 (District Board); 1 July 1997 (Provisional); 1 January 2000 (District Council);
Leadership
Chair	Vacant
Vice-Chair	Vacant
Structure
Seats	35 councillors consisting of 35 elected members
Democratic	3 / 35
Civic	3 / 35
Labour	2 / 35
DAB	1 / 35
FTU	1 / 35
Liberal	1 / 35
LSD	1 / 35
SKWEF	1 / 35
Independent	16 / 35
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	24 November 2019
Meeting place
	11/F, Eastern Law Court Building, 29 Tai On Street, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong
Website
	www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/east/

The Eastern District Council is the district council for the Eastern District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Eastern District Council currently consists of 35 members, of which the district is divided into 35 constituencies, electing a total of 35 members. The last election was held on 24 November 2019.

History

The Eastern District Council was established on 28 October 1981 under the name of the Eastern 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 Eastern District Board became Eastern 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 Eastern 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 Eastern District Council was one of the largest District Councils in Hong Kong and the largest on Hong Kong Island, now the largest District Council replace status in the Kwun Tong District Council . Compared to the continuing shrinking in size of the Wan Chai District Council, the government in 2015 decided to transfer Tin Hau and Victoria Park constituencies from the Eastern to the Wan Chai District Council.^[1]

Many older political organisations, especially the Reform Club of Hong Kong had a long presence in the Eastern District. In the 1985 election, an electoral coalition of 12 incumbents based on personal network surrounding Kwan Lim-ho of the Reform Club, contested in the election, winning 10 seats in total.^[2] The traditional leftists through the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) also had considerable influence in their traditional stronghold of North Point and passed on its influence to the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) formed in 1992 and gradually expanded to the public estate areas in Shau Kei Wan and Chai Wan, while the influence of the pro-democrats, represented by the Democratic Party and the Civic Party today, was mostly limited to certain areas of private apartments such as Tai Koo Shing and Sai Wan Ho.

The pro-democrats achieved the majority of the council for the first time in the 2019 election in a historic landslide victory amid the pro-democracy protests, taking 32 of the 35 seats in the council, with many of the pro-Beijing strongholds in North Point fell into the hand of pro-democracy independents. The Civic Party emerged as the largest party with five seats which saw its veteran councillor Joseph Lai took the chairmanship.

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	Reform Club	1982 - 1985
Pro-government	Reform Club	1985 - 1988
Pro-government	HKAS	1988 - 1991
Pro-government	United Democrats	1991 - 1994
Pro-Beijing	DAB	1994 - 1997
Pro-Beijing	DAB	1997 - 1999
Pro-Beijing	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	Civic	2020 - 2023

Political makeup

Elections are held every four years.

	Political party	Council members							Current members
	Political party	1994	1999	2003	2007	2011	2015	2019	Current members
bgcolor=Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color \|	Independent	14	12	17	12	12	10	19	16 / 35
bgcolor=Template:Democratic Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color \|	Democratic	4	6	6	3	2	2	4	3 / 35
bgcolor=Template:Civic Party/meta/color \|	Civic	-	-	-	2	3	4	5	3 / 35
bgcolor=Template:Labour Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color \|	Labour	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	2 / 35
bgcolor=Template:DABHK/meta/color \|	DAB	9	13	12	14	16	10	1	1 / 35
bgcolor=Template:HKFTU/meta/color \|	FTU	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1 / 35
bgcolor=Template:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)/meta/color \|	Liberal	3	2	1	2	2	2	1	1 / 35
bgcolor=Template:League of Social Democrats/meta/color \|	LSD	-	-	-	1	0	0	1	1 / 35
bgcolor=Template:Shau Kei Wan East Future/meta/color \|	SKWEF	-	-	-	1	0	0	1	1 / 35

District result maps

1994
1999
2003
2007
2011
2015
2019

Members represented

Starting from 1 January 2020:

Code	Constituency	Name	Political affiliation		Notes
C01	Tai Koo Shing West	Vacant			^[a]
C02	Tai Koo Shing East	Patrick Wong Chun-sing style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C03	Lei King Wan	Alice Wei Siu-lik style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C04	Sai Wan Ho	Mak Tak-ching style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F7941E;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Hong Kong)" \|	Labour
C05	Aldrich Bay	So Yat-hang style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" \|	Democratic
C06	Shaukeiwan	Leung Wing-sze style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C07	A Kung Ngam	Kwok Chi-chung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FEF013;" data-sort-value="Shau Kei Wan East Future" \|	SKWEF
C08	Heng Fa Chuen	Vacant			^[b]
C09	Tsui Wan	Ku Kwai-yiu style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C10	Yan Lam	Alice Lee Fung-king style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C11	Siu Sai Wan	Chan Wing-tai style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C12	King Yee	Vacant			^[c]
C13	Wan Tsui	Peter Ng Cheuk-ip style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C14	Fei Tsui	Vacant			^[d]
C15	Mount Parker	Annie Lee Ching-har style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" \|	DAB
C16	Braemar Hill	Kenny Yuen Kin-chung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00aeef;" data-sort-value="Liberal Party (Hong Kong)" \|	Liberal
C17	Fortress Hill	Vacant			^[c]
C18	City Garden	Jocelyn Chau Hui-yan style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C19	Provident	Kwok Wai-keung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #FF0000;" data-sort-value="Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions" \|	FTU
C20	Fort Street	Vacant			^[c]
C21	Kam Ping	Lee Yue-shun style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	^[e]
C22	Tanner	Vacant			^[f]
C23	Healthy Village	James Pui Chi-lap style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C24	Quarry Bay	Kelly Chan Po-king style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C25	Nam Fung	Cheung Kwok-cheong style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent	^[g]
C26	Kornhill	Derek Ngai Chi-ho style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" \|	Civic
C27	Kornhill Garden	Leung Siu-sun style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #7F3F98;" data-sort-value="Civic Party" \|	Civic
C28	Hing Tung	Cheung Chun-kit style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C29	Lower Yiu Tung	Ho Wai-lun style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F7941E;" data-sort-value="Labour Party (Hong Kong)" \|	Labour
C30	Upper Yiu Tung	Chow Cheuk-ki style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" \|	Democratic
C31	Hing Man	Tse Miu-yee style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C32	Lok Hong	Bull Tsang Kin-shing style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #e0050d;" data-sort-value="League of Social Democrats" \|	LSD
C33	Tsui Tak	Peter Choi Chi-keung style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC;" data-sort-value="Independent (politician)" \|	Independent
C34	Yue Wan	Vacant			^[f]
C35	Kai Hiu	Lai Tsz-yan 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:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Charles Gately	1981–1982	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Lui Hau-tuen	1982–1985	District Officer
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Shum Choi-sang	1985–1994	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Chan Bing-woon	1994–1999	Independent
bgcolor="Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color"\|	Christina Ting Yuk-chee	2000–2011	Independent
bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"\|	Christopher Chung Shu-kun	2012	DAB
bgcolor="Template:DABHK/meta/color"\|	Wong Kin-pan	2012–2019	DAB
bgcolor="Template:Civic Party/meta/color"\|	Joseph Lai Chi-keong	2020–present	Civic

Vice Chairs

Vice Chairman		Years	Political Affiliation
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"\|	Christopher Chung Shu-kun	2000–2003	DAB
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"\|	Wong Kwok-hing	2004–2007	DAB
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"\|	Christopher Chung Shu-kun	2008–2011	DAB
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"\|	Wong Kin-pan	2012	DAB
style="background: Template:DABHK/meta/color"\|	Kung Pak-cheung	2012–2015	DAB
style="background: Template:HKFTU/meta/color"\|	Chiu Chi-keung	2016–2019	FTU
style="background: Template:DPHK/meta/color"\|	Andrew Chiu Ka-yin	2020–present	Democratic

Notes

^ Resigned on 9 July 2021 after being arrested under national security law.
^ Resigned on 31 March 2021 over new oath-taking law.
^ ^a ^b ^c Resigned on 31 May 2021 over new oath-taking law.
^ Resigned on 9 July 2021.
^ Former Civic Party member.
^ ^a ^b Resigned on 21 May 2021 after being arrested under national security law.
^ Former Democratic Party member.

References

^ "Public Consultation on Demarcation of District boundary between Eastern and Wan Chai Districts". Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau.
^ "百姓 - Issues 159-170". 百姓半月刊編輯委員會. 1988. p. 3.

[resigned6-3] Resigned on 9 July 2021 after being arrested under national security law.

[resigned1-4] Resigned on 31 March 2021 over new oath-taking law.

[resigned2-5] Resigned on 31 May 2021 over new oath-taking law.

[resigned4-6] Resigned on 9 July 2021.

[fn1-7] Former Civic Party member.

[resigned-8] Resigned on 21 May 2021 after being arrested under national security law.

[formerdp-9] Former Democratic Party member.

[1] "Public Consultation on Demarcation of District boundary between Eastern and Wan Chai Districts". Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau.

[2] "百姓 - Issues 159-170". 百姓半月刊編輯委員會. 1988. p. 3.

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v t e Eastern District Council (35)
Civic (4)	Fei Tsui Kam Ping Kornhill Kornhill Garden
Democratic (4)	Aldrich Bay Nam Fung Tai Koo Shing West Upper Yiu Tung
Labour (2)	Lower Yiu Tung Sai Wan Ho
LSD (1)	Lok Hong
DAB (1)	Mount Parker
FTU (1)	Provident
Liberal (1)	Braemar Hill
Independent (21)	A Kung Ngam City Garden Fort Street Fortress Hill Healthy Village Heng Fa Chuen Hing Man Hing Tung Kai Hiu King Yee Lei King Wan Quarry Bay Shaukeiwan Siu Sai Wan Tai Koo Shing East Tanner Tsui Tak Tsui Wan Wan Tsui Yan Lam Yue Wan