Eastern District Council

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 (1981-10-28) (District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Wong Kin-pan, DAB
Vice-Chair	Chiu Chi-keung, FTU
Structure
Seats	35 councillors consisting of 35 elected members
DAB	11 / 35
FTU	6 / 35
Civic	4 / 35
Liberal	2 / 35
Democratic	2 / 35
Labour	1 / 35
Independent	9 / 35
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	22 November 2015
Meeting place
11/F, Eastern Law Court Building, 29 Tai On Street, Sai Wan Ho, Hong Kong
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/east/

Eastern District Council (Chinese: 東區區議會) is the district council for the Eastern District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 district council. Eastern District currently consists of 35 members, of which the district is divided into 35 constituencies, electing a total of 35 members. The latest election was held on 22 November 2015.

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.

Political control

Since 1982 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:

Political makeup

Elections are held every four years.

District result maps

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  1994 results map
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  1999 results map
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  2003 results map
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  2007 results map
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  2011 results map
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  2015 results map

Members represented

Leadership

Notes

References