Southern District Council 南區區議會
Type
Type	Hong Kong District Council of theSouthern 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/

Southern District Council is thedistrict council for theSouthern District inHong 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 on24 November 2019.

The Southern District Council was established on 4 December 1981 under the name of the Southern 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 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 byChief ExecutiveTung Chee-hwa. The Southern 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 Southern District Council has been dominated by the conservative independents. It was once the stronghold of the traditional political groupHong Kong Civic Association in the 1980s, in which they received a great victory in the1985 election and elected its member Lam Kwok-kwong as the board chairman.^[1] The Hong Kong Civic Association allied with the conservativeLiberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDF) in the1991 election, while the liberalUnited Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) also established its presence in the district concentrated inWah Fu Estate, led byHuang 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 theDemocratic Party maintained their presence inWah Fu and some other constituencies. It also bred its young party membersLo Kin-hei andAu Nok-hin who both took theLei Tung constituencies away from long-held conservative independent councillors in the2011 election. In the2019 elections, the pro-democrats achieved the majority in the council in a historic landslide victory brought by thepro-democracy protests. Kelvin Lam Ho-por, a substitute forJoshua Wong who was disqualified from running, defeatedJudy Chan Ka-pui of theNew People's Party inSouth Horizons West.

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

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

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