Sham Shui Po District Council
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Sham Shui Po District Council 深水埗區議會 |
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Chair
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Vice-Chair
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Chan Wai-ming, DAB
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| Structure | |
| Seats |
23 councillors consisting of 23 elected members |
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8 / 23
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5 / 23
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4 / 23
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1 / 23
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1 / 23
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1 / 23
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1 / 23
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2 / 23
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| Elections | |
| First past the post | |
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Last election
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22 November 2015 |
| Meeting place | |
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| 4/F Cheung Sha Wan Government Offices, 303 Cheung Sha Wan Road, Kowloon | |
| Website | |
| www |
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Sham Shui Po District Council (Chinese: 深水埗區議會) is the district council for the Sham Shui Po District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 district councils. Sham Shui Po District currently consists of 23 members, of which the district is divided into 23 constituencies, electing a total of 23 members. The latest election was held on 22 November 2015.
The Sham Shui Po District Council was established in 1982 under the name of the Sham Shui Po 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 Sham Shui Po District Board became Sham Shui Po 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 Sham Shui Po 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.
Partly because of the large presence of the low-income group in Sham Shui Po, the area has bred many pro-grassroots politicians. Social activists from the grassroots political groups Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy and the Sham Shui Po Residents Livelihood Concern Group had their roots in the district, which later formed the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL), one of the earlier pro-democracy political groups in the 1980s.
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