Tuen Mun District Council

The Tuen Mun District Council (Chinese: 屯門區議會) is the District Council of Tuen Mun District, in the New Territories. It is one of 18 such councils. The Council consists of 32 members with 31 of those elected through first past the post system every four years with 1 ex officio member who is the Tuen Mun Rural Committee chairman. The latest election was held on 24 November 2019.

Tuen Mun District Council

屯門區議會
Type
Type
History
Founded1 April 1981 (1981-04-01) (District Board)
1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional)
1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council)
Leadership
Chair
Vice-Chair
Wong Tan-ching, TMCN
Structure
Seats32 councillors
consisting of
31 elected and
1 ex-officio members
6 / 31
5 / 31
5 / 31
2 / 31
2 / 31
1 / 31
1 / 31
1 / 31
9 / 31
Elections
First past the post
Last election
24 November 2019
Meeting place
2/F, Tuen Mun Government Offices, 1 Tuen Hi Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/tm/

History

The Tuen Mun District Council was established on 1 April 1981 under the name of the Tuen Mun 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 Tuen Mun Rural Committee chairman, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor Chris Patten refrained from appointing any member. Rural leaders and indigenous inhabitants like Lau Wong-fat had dominated local political scene in the early and mid-1980s.[1]

The Tuen Mun District Board became Tuen Mun 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 Tuen Mun 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, Tuen Mun was a strategic target for emerging pro-democracy activists, notably the Meeting Point. Ng Ming-yam was first elected in the 1985 election with the highest votes in the territory and was re-elected with high votes in 1988 and 1991 and later on elected to the Legislative Council in 1991. Another pro-democracy party Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) and pro-Taipei 123 Democratic Alliance also established their bases in the 1990s. In the 1994 election, the pro-democracy and pro-Taipei together gained the control of the council.

The Tuen Mun District Council is also dominated by the rural forces. Long-time Heung Yee Kuk chairman Lau Wong-fat was the long-time chairman of the council from 1985 up until 2011, and again from 2011 to 2015, on the capacity of Tuen Mun Rural Committee chairman. In 1994 when the pro-democrat and pro-Taipei councillors controlled the board, the 123 Democratic Alliance defected and elected Lau to be the chairman.[2] Lau chairmanship was interrupted in 2011 when his rural committee chairmanship was taken away by Junius Ho. Leung Kin-man of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), which rapidly developed its base in the district after the handover, took the chairmanship briefly and again became the council chairman since 2015.

The Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho was a long time councillor in the district, representing Lok Tsui, until he was defeated in the 2015 District Council election when he was ousted by Junius Ho, which eliminated Albert Ho's eligibility to run in the District Council (Second) constituency for the Legislative Council.[3] The Democratic Party also suffered a huge defeat in the district, dropping their seats from seven to four.

Amid the massive pro-democracy protests in 2019, Junius Ho who was a key anti-protest figure who was allegedly involved in the Yuen Long attack was challenged by Democratic Party's Lo Chun-yu in his constituency in the November election, with Lo's party winning eight seats. A historic landslide victory occurred as the pro-democrats took 28 of the 31 seats in the council with Ho being unseated. A localist political group Tuen Mun Community Network also grabbed four seats as a result.

Political control

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

Camp in controlLargest partyYearsComposition
No overall controlNone1982–1985
Pro-governmentPCPHP1985–1988




Pro-governmentMeeting Point1988–1991




Pro-governmentUnited Democrats1991–1994




Pro-democracyDemocratic1994–1997




Pro-BeijingDemocratic1997–1999




Pro-BeijingDemocratic2000–2003




Pro-BeijingDAB2004–2007




Pro-BeijingDAB2008–2011




Pro-BeijingDAB2012–2015




Pro-BeijingDAB2016–2019




Pro-democracyDemocratic2020–2023




Political makeup

Elections are held every four years.

    Political party Council members Current
members
1994 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019
  Independent 3 6 6 8 8 5 5
9 / 31
  Democratic 9 9 9 7 7 4 8
6 / 31
  ADPL 4 4 4 2 2 3 5
5 / 31
  TMCN - - - - - - 4
5 / 31
  TCHD - - - - - - 2
2 / 31
  Labour - - - - - 1 2
2 / 31
  DAB 2 7 9 11 12 8 1
1 / 31
  FTU - - - - - 4 1
1 / 31
  BPA - - - - - - 1
1 / 31
  EHK - - - - - - 1
1 / 31
  LMCG - - - - - - 1
1 / 31

District result maps
  • 1994
  • 1999
  • 2003
  • 2007
  • 2011
  • 2015
  • 2019

Members represented
Code Constituency Name Political affiliation Notes
L01 Tuen Mun Town Centre Alfred Lai Chun-wing Democratic
L02 Siu Chi Lam Chung-hoi Independent [lower-alpha 1]
L03 On Ting Kong Fung-yi ADPL
L04 Siu Tsui Yan Pui-lam Team Chu
L05 Yau Oi South Lam Kin-cheung Labour
L06 Yau Oi North Lam Ming-yan Labour
L07 Tsui Hing Poon Chi-kin TMCN
L08 Shan King Wong Tan-ching TMCN
L09 King Hing Chan Yau-hoi FTU
L10 Hing Tsak Tsang Chun-hing TMCN
L11 San Hui Cheung Ho-sum TMCN
L12 So Kwun Wat Ma Kee Democratic
L13 Sam Shing Michael Mo Kwan-tai Independent
L14 Hanford Beatrice Chu Shun-nga Independent [lower-alpha 1]
L15 Yuet Wu Wong Hung-ming ADPL
L16 Siu Hei Yan Siu-nam ADPL
L17 Wu King Chow Kai-lim ADPL
L18 Butterfly Yeung Chi-hang ADPL
L19 Fu Sun Lee Ka-wai Independent [lower-alpha 2]
L20 Lok Tsui Lo Chun-yu Democratic
L21 Lung Mun Tsang Kam-wing LMCG
L22 San King Catherine Wong Lai-sheung Democratic
L23 Leung King Wong Tak-yuen TMCN
L24 Tin King Leung Ho-man Independent
L25 Po Tin So Ka-man Independent
L26 Kin Sang Law Pei-lee Team Chu
L27 Siu Hong Josephine Chan Shu-ying Democratic
L28 Yan Tin Apple Lai Ka-man DAB/NTAS
L29 Tuen Mun Rural Kenneth Cheung Kam-hung Independent
L30 Fu Tai Ho Kwok-ho Empowering HK
L31 Prime View Ho Hang-mui Democratic
Ex Officio Tuen Mun Rural Committee Chairman Kenneth Lau Ip-keung BPA

Leadership

Chairs

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

ChairmanYearsPolitical Affiliation
Billy C. L. Lam1981–1983District Officer
Ricky C. C. Fung1983–1985District Officer
Lau Wong-fat1985–2011Heung Yee Kuk→Liberal→ES
Leung Kin-man2011DAB
Lau Wong-fat2012–2015ES→BPA
Leung Kin-man2016–2019DAB
Josephine Chan Shu-ying2020–presentDemocratic

Vice Chairs
Vice ChairmanYearsPolitical Affiliation
Leung Kin-man2000–2011DAB
Lau Chi-pang2011Independent
Leung Kin-man2012–2015DAB
Lothar Lee Hung-sham2016–2019FTU
Wong Tan-ching2020–presentTMCN

Notes
  1. Former Democratic Party member.
  2. Fu Sun Generation member.

References
  1. Lau, Siu‐Kai; Kuan, Hsin‐chi (1984). "District Board Elections in Hong Kong". Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 22 (3): 309. doi:10.1080/14662048408447460. ISSN 0306-3631.
  2. 田弘茂, 朱雲漢, 葉明德 (1996). 一九九七過渡與臺港關係. 業强出版社. p. 242.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Ng, Joyce; Lam, Jeffie (15 October 2015). "Hong Kong district council elections see record number of candidates in first citywide polls since Occupy movement". South China Morning Post.

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