Southern District Council is the district council for the Southern District in 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.

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 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 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 Tung Chee-hwa. The Southern 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.

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 in the 1980s, in which they received a great victory in the 1985 election and elected its member Lam Kwok-kwong as the board chairman. The Hong Kong Civic Association allied with the conservative Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDF) in the 1991 election, while the liberal United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) also established its presence in the district concentrated in Wah Fu Estate, led by 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 maintained their presence in Wah Fu and some other constituencies. It also bred its young party members Lo Kin-hei and Au Nok-hin who both took the Lei Tung constituencies away from long-held conservative independent councillors in the 2011 election. In the 2019 elections, the pro-democrats achieved the majority in the council in a historic landslide victory brought by the pro-democracy protests. Kelvin Lam Ho-por, a substitute for Joshua Wong who was disqualified from running, defeated Judy Chan Ka-pui of the New People's Party in South Horizons West.

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

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

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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

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 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

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