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:::  BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF KAOHSIUNG COUNTY ORGANIZATION |
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From the 1st council to the 6th council, all councilors to the 9th council, Kaohsiung County was
adjusted to were elected from 10 electorates. But from the 7th council divide into 7electorates,
After Kaohsiung City was reorganized to be speaial municipality under the jurisdiction of the
Executive Yuan on Julyl, 1980, Hsiao-Kang Hsiang, which was formerly under the jurisdiction of
Kaohsiung County government, became a part of Kaohsiung City.
On May 14, 1980, the central government promulgated the "law of Election and Recalling of Public Functionaries During the Period of the Communist Rebellion". According to this regulation, the electorates for the 10th council was subject to the Kaohsiung County.
The councilors were elected from 10 announcement and decision of the Election Committee of electorates, covering 24 Hsiangs / Towns / Cities in the plain area and thee Hsiangs in the mountain area. One councilor was elected from each Hsiang in the mountain area. In the plain area, several Hsiangs and Towns were combined as one electorate. The distribution of seats for each electorate was subject to the population. During the election of the 1 Ith and 12th, 53 councilors were elected from 10 electorates. With the increast of population in Kaohsiung County, the seats for the 13th were increased to 54.
In February, 1997, the Election Committee announced the decision to divide the original first electorate into two. And because the population of the aborigines of level exceeded 1,500, the whole county was to be regarded as one electorate (except the three Hsiangs in the mountain area), whereby one seat on the council would be reserved for an aborigine from the flat land. number of seats on the council would be restricted to 54. The county electorates would be expanded to 12 but the The 15thcouncil of Kaohsiung County was formally set up on March 1, 2002. The eongressional district adjusts for 10. |
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