Wan Chai District Council

Wan Chai District Council 灣仔區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of the Wan Chai District
History
Founded	20 February 1982 (1982-02-20) (District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Stephen Ng Kam-chun, Independent
Vice-Chair	Jennifer Chow Kit-bing, DAB
Structure
Seats	13 councillors consisting of 13 elected members
DAB	4 / 13
NPP	1 / 13
Liberal	1 / 13
Independent	7 / 13
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	22 November 2015
Meeting place
21/F, Southorn Centre, 130 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/wc/

Wan Chai District Council (Chinese: 灣仔區議會) is the district council for the Wan Chai District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 district councils. Wan Chai District currently consists of 13 members, of which the district is divided into 13 constituencies, electing a total of 13 members. The latest election was held on 22 November 2015.

History

The Wan Chai District Council was established on 20 February 1982 under the name of the Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai District Board became Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai District Council is the smallest District Council, having only 13 members due to its small population. Due to its continuing shrinking in size, the government in 2015 decided to transfer Tin Hau and Victoria Park constituencies from the Eastern District Council to Wan Chai.^[1]

The Wan Chai District Council has been controlled by the conservatives with Peggy Lam being the chairwoman of the council from 1985 to 2003. The conservative control was interrupted between 2003 and 2007, when the pro-democrats and their allies took advance of the anti-government sentiment of the 2003 July 1 march in which the newly established Civic Act-up under Legislative Councillor Cyd Ho became the largest party in the council in the 2003 election and make nonpartisan Ada Wong Ying-kay the council chairwoman. The pro-democracy council was noted for its community reforms, stressing the citizens' involvement in the community planning, such as the urban renewal projects including the controversy over the demolition of Lee Tung Street. The pro-democracy council lasted for one term until the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) retook its largest party status in the 2007 election while Civic Act-up lost all their seats.^[2]

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

• 
  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

References

External links

• http://www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/wc/english/welcome.htm