Kowloon City District
| 九龍 城區 Kowloon City District
Kowloon City |
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 Location of the Kowloon City District in Hong Kong |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Special Administrative Region | Hong Kong |
| surface | 10 km² |
| Residents | 418,732 (2016) |
| density | 41,999 inhabitants per km² |
| founding | 1981 |
| ISO 3166-2 | HK |
| Website | Kowloon City District Council (en, zh) |
| politics | |
| Chairman | SIU, Leong-sing 蕭 亮 聲 (as of May 2020) |
| Political party | Democratic ( 民主黨 ) |
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Coordinates: 22 ° 19 ′ 42 ″ N , 114 ° 11 ′ 30 ″ E
Kowloon City District ( Chinese 九龍 城區 / 九龙 城区 , Pinyin Jiǔlóngchéng Qū , Jyutping Gau 2 lung 4 sing 4 Keoi 1 - "District Kowloon City") is an administrative area of Hong Kong in Kowloon across from Hong Kong Island . It includes the actual Kowloon City and other surrounding districts of Hong Kong .
The area included the now defunct Kowloon Walled City and the former Kai Tak Airport , each of which was converted into a park or new building land . Today the district stretches from the City University of Hong Kong in the extreme northwest over the actual Kowloon City, the districts To Kwa Wan and Hung Hom to the Hung Hom train station .
District Council
The Kowloon City District Council is the " District Council " - an administrative body under the Home Affairs Bureau of Hong Kong - for the Kowloon City District and is composed of 25 MPs . Each MP is elected in one of the 25 constituencies . The distribution of constituency representatives among the parties currently represented in the District Council is shown in the following table (MPs from parties formerly represented in the District Council are not mentioned):
| Political party | MPs after elections | MPs currently |
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| 1994 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2011 | 2015 | 2019 | |||||||||||||
| Democratic | 2 | 4th | 7th | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
10/25 |
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| independent | 4th | 4th | 5 | 8th | 9 | 8th | 7th |
6/25 |
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| DAB | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 4th |
4/25 |
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| BPA | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 3 |
3/25 |
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| Liberal | 2 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
1/25 |
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| SK | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 |
1/25 |
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Distribution of seats in the Kowloon City District Council currently
A total of 25 seats
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Special
Since Hong Kong was handed over to the People's Republic of China, the pro-Beijing camp has always had a clear majority over the pro-democracy camp in the Kowloon City District Council. In the local elections in Hong Kong in 2019 , where the pro-democracy camp achieved a landslide victory, the pro-democracy camp also became stronger than the pro-Beijing camp in the Kowloon City District Council. Nevertheless, the pro-Beijing camp achieved a relatively good result here compared to other districts, since the Kowloon City District is a stronghold for the pro-Beijing camp.
The prominent politician Starry Lee , who has been chairwoman of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong since 2015 , has belonged to the Kowloon City District since the local elections in Hong Kong in 1999 . In the local elections in Hong Kong in 2019, she was able to defend her seat against the equally prominent pro-democracy Leung Kwok-hung from the League of Social Democrats .
Web links
- Kowloon City District Information - District Highlights - HK District Councils (Chinese, English)
- Kowloon City - Hong Kong Fun in 18 Districts - HK Home Affairs Department (Chinese, English)
- Hong Kong Electoral Affairs Commission:
Official Map - Kowloon City - Constituency u. District boundaries (PDF; 2.8 MB, Chinese, English) - Discover Hong Kong - Kowloon City (Chinese, German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2016 Population Census: Summary Results. Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong Government, 2017, accessed April 1, 2019 .
- ^ Kowloon City DC Members. Kowloon City District Council, accessed February 2, 2020 (Chinese, English).
- ^ EAC: Electoral Boundary Maps (2015 DC Election). Retrieved April 1, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ↑ 2019 District Councils Election - Election Results. Retrieved February 2, 2020 (Chinese, English).
- ↑ Kimmy Chung, Victor Ting: DAB chiefs reject leader Starry Lee's offer to resign over poll disaster. South China Morning Post , November 25, 2019, accessed February 2, 2020 .
