Eastern District Council 東區區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of theEastern District, Hong Kong
History
Founded	28 October 1981 (1981-10-28)(District Board) 1 July 1997 (1997-7-1)(Provisional) 1 January 2000 (2000-1-1)(District Council)
Leadership
Chair	Simon Chan Sheung-man, Independent
Structure
Seats	30 councillors consisting of 6 elected members 12 district committee members 12 appointed members
DAB	13 / 30
FTU	3 / 30
NPP	3 / 30
Liberal	2 / 30
BPA	1 / 30
FEW	1 / 30
Independent	7 / 30
Elections
Voting system	First past the post
Last election	10 December 2023
Meeting place
11/F, Eastern Law Court Building, 29 Tai On Street,Sai Wan Ho,Hong Kong
Website
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/east/

TheEastern District Council is thedistrict council for theEastern District inHong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Eastern District Council currently consists of 35 members, of which the district is divided into three constituencies, electing a total of 6 members, 12 district committee members, and 12 appointed members. The last election was held on10 December 2023.

The Eastern District Council was established on 28 October 1981 under the name of the Eastern District Board as the result of the colonialGovernorMurray MacLehose's District Administration Scheme reform. The District Board was partly elected with theex-officioUrban Council members, as well as members appointed by the Governor until 1994 when last GovernorChris 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 byChief ExecutiveTung Chee-hwa. The Eastern District Council was established on 1 January 2000 after thefirst District Council election in 1999. The council has become fully elected when the appointed seats were abolished in 2011 after themodified constitutional reform proposal was passed by theLegislative 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 theWan Chai District Council, the government in 2015 decided to transferTin Hau andVictoria Park constituencies from the Eastern to the Wan Chai District Council.^[1]

Many older political organisations, especially theReform Club of Hong Kong had a long presence in the Eastern District. In the1985 election, an electoral coalition of 12 incumbents based on personal network surroundingKwan Lim-ho of the Reform Club, contested in the election, winning 10 seats in total.^[2] The traditional leftists through theHong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) also had considerable influence in their traditional stronghold ofNorth Point and passed on its influence to theDemocratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) formed in 1992 and gradually expanded to the public estate areas inShau Kei Wan andChai Wan, while the influence of the pro-democrats, represented by theDemocratic Party and theCivic Party today, was mostly limited to certain areas of private apartments such asTai Koo Shing andSai Wan Ho.

The pro-democrats achieved the majority of the council for the first time in the2019 election in a historic landslide victory amid thepro-democracy protests, taking 32 of the 35 seats in the council, with many of the pro-Beijing strongholds in North Point fell into the hand of pro-democracy independents. The Civic Party emerged as the largest party with five seats which saw its veteran councillorJoseph Lai took the chairmanship.

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

Elections are held every four years.

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  1994
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  1999
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  2003
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  2007
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  2011
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  2015
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  2019

Between 1985 and 2023, the chairman is elected by all the members of the council.

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