# Southern District Council > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Southern_District_Council > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Southern_District_Council.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_District_Council > Source revision: 1325679418 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) District council in Hong Kong Southern District Council 南區區議會 Type Type Hong Kong District Council of the Southern District, Hong Kong History Founded 4 December 1981 (1981-12-04) (District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-07-01) (Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-01-01) (District Council) Leadership Chair Francis Cheng Kong-chung, Independent Structure Seats 20 councillors consisting of 4 elected members 8 district committee members 8 appointed members DAB 7 / 20 FTU 2 / 20 NPP 2 / 20 BPA 2 / 20 Liberal 1 / 20 Independent 6 / 20 Elections Voting system First past the post Last election 10 December 2023 Meeting place 1/F., Ocean Court, 3 Aberdeen Praya Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Website www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/south/ ‹[See RfD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2026_May_22#Template:Chinese)› Southern District Council Traditional Chinese 南區區議會 Transcriptions Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Nàahm kēui kēui yih wuih Jyutping Naam4 koei1 keoi1 ji6 wui6 The **Southern District Council** (noted as **South**) is the [district council](/source/District_council_of_Hong_Kong) for the [Southern District](/source/Southern_District%2C_Hong_Kong) in [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong). It is one of 18 such councils. The Southern District Council currently consists of 20 members, of which the district is divided into two constituencies, electing a total of 4 members, 8 district committee members, and 8 appointed members. The last election was held on [24 November 2019](/source/2019_Hong_Kong_local_elections). ## History The Southern District Council was established on 4 December 1981 under the name of the Southern District Board as the result of the colonial [Governor](/source/Governor_of_Hong_Kong) [Murray MacLehose](/source/Murray_MacLehose)'s District Administration Scheme reform. The District Board was partly elected with the *ex-officio* [Urban Council](/source/Urban_Council) members, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last Governor [Chris Patten](/source/Chris_Patten) refrained from appointing any member. The Southern District Board became Southern Provisional District Board after the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) was established in 1997 with the appointment system being reintroduced by [Chief Executive](/source/Chief_Executive_of_Hong_Kong) [Tung Chee-hwa](/source/Tung_Chee-hwa). The Southern District Council was established on 1 January 2000 after the [first District Council election](/source/1999_Hong_Kong_local_elections) in 1999. The council has become fully elected when the appointed seats were abolished in 2011 after the [modified constitutional reform proposal](/source/2010_Hong_Kong_electoral_reform) was passed by the [Legislative Council](/source/Legislative_Council_of_Hong_Kong) in 2010. The Southern District Council has been dominated by the conservative independents. It was once the stronghold of the traditional political group [Hong Kong Civic Association](/source/Hong_Kong_Civic_Association) in the 1980s, in which they received a great victory in the [1985 election](/source/1985_Hong_Kong_local_elections) and elected its member Lam Kwok-kwong as the board chairman.[1] The Hong Kong Civic Association allied with the conservative [Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong](/source/Liberal_Democratic_Federation_of_Hong_Kong) (LDF) in the [1991 election](/source/1991_Hong_Kong_local_elections), while the liberal [United Democrats of Hong Kong](/source/United_Democrats_of_Hong_Kong) (UDHK) also established its presence in the district concentrated in [Wah Fu Estate](/source/Wah_Fu_Estate), led by [Huang Chen-ya](/source/Huang_Chen-ya) who was later elected to the Legislative Council in the same year. The Southern District Council has been controlled by the pro-Beijing camp since 1997, even though the [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(Hong_Kong)) maintained their presence in [Wah Fu](/source/Wah_Fu_Estate) and some other constituencies. It also bred its young party members [Lo Kin-hei](/source/Lo_Kin-hei) and [Au Nok-hin](/source/Au_Nok-hin) who both took the [Lei Tung](/source/Lei_Tung_Estate) constituencies away from long-held conservative independent councillors in the [2011 election](/source/2011_Hong_Kong_local_elections). In the [2019 elections](/source/2019_Hong_Kong_local_elections), the pro-democrats achieved the majority in the council in a historic landslide victory brought by the [pro-democracy protests](/source/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests). Kelvin Lam Ho-por, a substitute for [Joshua Wong](/source/Joshua_Wong) who was disqualified from running, defeated [Judy Chan Ka-pui](/source/Judy_Chan_Ka-pui) of the [New People's Party](/source/New_People's_Party_(Hong_Kong)) in [South Horizons West](/source/South_Horizons_West_(constituency)). ## Political control Since 1982 political control of the council has been held by the following parties: Camp in control Largest party Years Composition No Overall Control Civic Association 1982 - 1985 Pro-government Civic Association 1985 - 1988 Pro-government Civic Association 1988 - 1991 Pro-government Civic Association 1991 - 1994 Pro-Beijing Democratic 1994 - 1997 Pro-Beijing Democratic 1997 - 1999 Pro-Beijing Democratic 2000 - 2003 Pro-Beijing Democratic 2004 - 2007 Pro-Beijing Democratic 2008 - 2011 Pro-Beijing Democratic 2012 - 2015 Pro-Beijing Democratic 2016 - 2019 Pro-democracy → Pro-Beijing Democratic → Liberal 2020 - 2023 Pro-Beijing DAB 2024 - 2027 ## Political makeup [Elections](/source/District_Councils_of_Hong_Kong#Elections) are held every four years. Political party Council members Current members 1994 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 Independent 10 11 10 11 8 9 8 7 / 17 Democratic 4 2 2 3 5 4 7 7 / 17 Civic - - - 0 1 0 1 1 / 17 Liberal 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 / 17 ## District result maps - **1994** - **1999** - **2003** - **2007** - **2011** - **2015** - **2019** ## Members represented Capacity Code Constituency Name Political affiliation Term Notes Elected D01 Southern District Southeast Chan Wing-yan FTU 1 January 2024 Incumbent Jonathan Leung Chun Liberal 1 January 2024 Incumbent D02 Southern District Northwest Cheung Wai-nam DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent Sophia Lam Wing-yan FTU 1 January 2024 Incumbent District Committees Sunny Wong Choi-lap DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent Victor Lau Ngai DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent Danny Siu Wai-chung DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent Nicole Wong Yu-ching NPP 1 January 2024 Incumbent Adam Lai Ka-chi BPA 1 January 2024 Incumbent Howard Chao BPA 1 January 2024 Incumbent Lam Wing-yee Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent Cheung Chin-chung Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent Appointed Roy Chu Lap-wai DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent Li Kai-ying DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent Chan Yuk-kit DAB 1 January 2024 Incumbent Vera Ho Yuen-wei NPP 1 January 2024 Incumbent Lam Yuk-chun Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent Chan Man-chun Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent Pang Siu-kei Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent Jun Yeung Sheung-chun Independent 1 January 2024 Incumbent ## Leadership ### Chairs Since 1985, the chairman is elected by all the members of the board: Chairman Years Political Affiliation Kwong Ki-chi 1981–1984 District Officer Eddy Chan Yuk-tak 1984–1985 District Officer Lam Kwok-kwong 1985–1988 Civic Association Hui Yung-chung 1988–1994 Independent Ko Tam-kan 1994–1997 Independent Ma Yuet-har 1997–1999 Independent Joseph Chan Yuek-sut 2000–2003 Independent Ma Yuet-har 2004–2011 Independent Chu Ching-hong 2012–2019 Independent Lo Kin-hei 2020–2021 Democratic Francis Cheng Kwok-chung 2024–present District Officer ### Vice Chairs Vice Chairman Years Political Affiliation Wong King-keung 2000–2003 Independent Chu Ching-hong 2004–2011 Independent Chan Fu-ming 2012–2019 Independent Paulus Johannes Zimmerman 2020–2023 Independent ## Notes ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** *百姓, Issues 111-122*. 百姓半月刊編輯委員會. 1986. p. 55. v t e District Councils of Hong Kong (by district) Hong Kong Island Central and Western Wan Chai Eastern Southern Kowloon Yau Tsim Mong Sham Shui Po Kowloon City Wong Tai Sin Kwun Tong New Territories Tsuen Wan Tuen Mun Yuen Long North Tai Po Sai Kung Sha Tin Kwai Tsing Islands v t e Southern District Council elections 1982 1985 1988 1991 1994 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 [22°14′51″N 114°09′32″E / 22.2474°N 114.1590°E / 22.2474; 114.1590](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Southern_District_Council¶ms=22.2474_N_114.159_E_) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Southern District Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_District_Council) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_District_Council?action=history)). 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