2004 Hong Kong legislative election explained

Election Name:2004 Hong Kong legislative election
Country:Hong Kong
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Previous Mps:List of LegCo members elected in Hong Kong legislative election, 2000
Previous Election:2000 Hong Kong legislative election
Previous Year:2000
Next Election:2008 Hong Kong legislative election
Next Year:2008
Elected Mps:members elected
Seats For Election:All 60 seats to the Legislative Council
Majority Seats:31
Election Date:12 September 2004
Opinion Polls:Opinion polling for the Hong Kong legislative election, 2004
Registered:3,207,227 4.97%
Turnout:1,784,406 (55.64%) 12.07pp
Leader1:Ma Lik
Alliance1:Pro-Beijing camp
Party1:Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong
Leaders Seat1:Hong Kong Island
Last Election1:11 seats, 28.40%
Seats1:12
Seat Change1:2
Popular Vote1:454,827
Percentage1:25.49%
Swing1:2.91pp
Leader2:James Tien
Alliance2:Pro-Beijing camp
Party2:Liberal Party (Hong Kong)
Leaders Seat2:New Territories East
Last Election2:7 seats, 1.88%
Seats2:10
Seat Change2:2
Popular Vote2:118,997
Percentage2:6.72%
Swing2:4.84pp
Leader3:Yeung Sum
Alliance3:Pro-democracy camp
Party3:Democratic Party (Hong Kong)
Leaders Seat3:Hong Kong Island
Last Election3:13 seats, 31.74%
Seats3:9
Seat Change3:2
Popular Vote3:445,988
Percentage3:25.19%
Swing3:6.47pp
Leader4:Emily Lau
Alliance4:Pro-democracy camp
Party4:The Frontier (Hong Kong)
Leaders Seat4:New Territories East
Last Election4:2 seats, 6.78%
Seats4:1
Seat Change4:1
Popular Vote4:121,900
Percentage4:6.89%
Swing4:0.11pp
Leader5:Frederick Fung
Party5:Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood
Alliance5:Pro-democracy camp
Leaders Seat5:Kowloon West
Last Election5:1 seat, 4.75%
Seats5:1
Popular Vote5:74,671
Percentage5:4.22%
Swing5:0.53pp
Leader6:Lau Chin-shek
Party6:Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions
Alliance6:Pro-democracy camp
Leaders Seat6:Kowloon West
Last Election6:2 seats, 7.33%
Seats6:1
Popular Vote6:69,844
Percentage6:3.95%
Swing6:3.38pp
Leader7:Leung Kwok-hung
Party7:April Fifth Action
Alliance7:Pro-democracy camp
Leaders Seat7:New Territories East
Last Election7:0 seat, 1.38%
Seats7:1
Seat Change7:1
Popular Vote7:60,925
Percentage7:3.44%
Swing7:2.06pp
Leader8:Leung Yiu-chung
Party8:Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre
Alliance8:Pro-democracy camp
Leaders Seat8:New Territories West
Last Election8:1 seat, 4.50%
Seats8:1
Popular Vote8:59,033
Percentage8:3.33%
Swing8:1.17pp
Leader9:Ambrose Lau
Alliance9:Pro-Beijing camp
Party9:Hong Kong Progressive Alliance
Leaders Seat9:Retired from Election Committee
Last Election9:4 seats, 1.95%
Seats9:0
Seat Change9:4
Popular Vote9:14,174
Percentage9:0.80%
Swing9:1.15pp
Party control
Before Election:Pro-Beijing camp
Posttitle:Party control after election
After Election:Pro-Beijing camp

The 2004 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 12 September 2004 for members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). The election returned 30 members from directly elected geographical constituencies and 30 members from functional constituencies, of which 11 were unopposed.

An unprecedented number of 3.2 million people registered to vote in the election. The turnout rate was an unprecedented 55.6% with 1,784,406 voters casting ballots, beating the previous record set in 1998 by 200,000 votes. While pro-democratic opposition candidates gained new seats in the legislature, their gains fell short of their expectations.

In the geographical constituencies, candidates from the pro-democratic camp secured 60 percent of the seats in the geographical sectors of the election, taking 18 seats (up from 17) in this category, and 62 percent of the popular vote. On the other hand, the pro-Beijing and pro-business candidates made greater gains, winning 12 directly elected seats (up from 7). In the functional constituencies which the pro-democratic camp sought to abolish, the camp made more gains (from 5 to 7 seats).

Overall, the democrats took 25 seats and the pro-government camp 35 seats. Bills initiated by the government can still be passed on pro-government support alone, but bills originated by members cannot be passed without democratic support, since these bills require absolute majorities in each sector (geographical and functional) of the legislature.[1] Constitutional amendments require a two-thirds vote and thereby also require support from the democratic camp.

Despite the increase in the number of seats returned by geographical constituencies and the record turnout, the Democratic Party lost the status of being the largest political party in the Legislative Council to the pro-government Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, DAB, who secured 12 seats if including the two members who ran under the banner of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, and pro-business Liberal Party who secured 10 seats, thereby becoming only the third-largest party. Some attributed the poor performance of the pro-democratic camp to tactical miscalculation in vote allocation. This was not helped by some of the democratic parties' personal scandals.

The pro-Beijing and pro-business parties succeeded in retaining the majority in the legislature. However, pro-democracy candidates have maintained the threshold to block changes, if necessary, to the Basic Law of Hong Kong, since a two-thirds vote is required for amendment. The current Legislative Council also saw the entry of more radical members of the democratic camp.

Change in composition

According to the Annex II of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, the 6-seat Election Committee constituency indirectly elected by the 800-member Election Committee would be abolished, while the directly elected geographical constituency seats would increase from 24 to 30,[2] same number of the indirectly elected functional constituencies. As a result, Hong Kong Island and Kowloon East was added one extra seat each, from five to six and four to five respectively, and the New Territories West and New Territories East was added two extra seats each, from six to eight and five to seven respectively, while the number of seats in Kowloon West remained four.

Background

The election came amidst the deteriorating governance and intense debates over constitutional reforms in Hong Kong. The Tung Chee-hwa administration had been embattling with economic recession brought by the 1997 financial crisis and the more prominent SARS outbreak in 2003. Nevertheless, the Tung administration pushed forward the controversial Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 legislation which outlawed "treason" and "subversive activities" and raised concerns on its potential threats against Hong Kong people's civil liberties. A group of barristers formed the Basic Law Article 23 Concern Group and rallied against the national security legislation. Over 500,000 people to protested on 1 July 2003, the sixth anniversary of the establishment of the HKSAR, against the legislation, the largest demonstration since the handover.[3] The Article 23 legislation further crippled the Tung administration as the government saw its popularity dropped to a new low. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the largest pro-Beijing party saw its largest defeat in the District Council elections in November 2003, which alarmed the Beijing and the Hong Kong government.

The Annex I and Annex II of the Basic Law state that the method for selecting the Chief Executive and for forming the Legislative Council could be amended after 2007. The pro-democracy camp argued that the third term of Chief Executive and fourth term of Legislative Council should be elected on the basis of universal suffrage in 2007 and 2008 as stipulated in the Article 45 and 68 of the Basic Law respectively.[4] In 2004, the Article 23 Concern Group transformed into the Article 45 Concern Group calling for the early implementation of the universal suffrage. Facing the pro-democracy pressure for full democratisation, in April 2004, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) ruled out the 2007/08 universal suffrage.

Retiring incumbents

With the cancellation of the Election Committee constituency, there were total of twelve incumbents chose not to run for re-election. Ip Kwok-him lost his seat in the Central and Western District Council therefore was not qualified for running in the District Council functional constituency.

Opinion polling

See main article: Opinion polling for the Hong Kong legislative election, 2004.

Results

Before election:

2238
Pro-democracyPro-Beijing
Change in composition:
2535
Pro-democracyPro-Beijing

|-! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" rowspan=2 colspan=3|Parties and allegiances! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" colspan=4 |Geographical constituencies! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" colspan=4 |Functional constituencies! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" rowspan=2 |Total
seats! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" rowspan=2 |±|-! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |±pp! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |±pp! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats|-|rowspan=6 style="text-align:left;background-color:Pink;border-bottom-style:hidden;"||style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong |402,420|22.73|5.67|8| –| –| –|2|10||-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Party |118,997|6.72|4.84|2|6,126|4.71|0.25|8|10|2|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions |52,564|2.97|N/A|1|566|0.44|N/A|2|3|2|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Progressive Alliance |14,174|0.80|1.15|0|17|0.01|0.14|0|0|4|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |New Century Forum |4,511|0.25|1.35|0| –| –| –| –|0|1|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Pro-government individuals and others|69,306|3.92| –|1|36,313|27.91|–|11|12|−|-style="background-color:Pink"| style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Total for pro-Beijing camp|661,972|37.40|2.46|12|43,022|33.07|6.78|23|35| 4|-|rowspan=9 style="text-align:left;background-color:LightGreen;width:1px;border-bottom-style:hidden;"||style="background-color:;width:1px"|| style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Party |445,988|25.19|6.47|7|48,323|37.15|8.48|2|9|2|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Article 45 Concern Group |117,216|6.62|N/A|3|2,597|2.00|N/A|1|4|2|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |The Frontier |121,900|6.89|0.11|1|–|–|–|–|1|1|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood |74,671|4.22|0.53|1|–|–|–|–|1|0|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions |69,844|3.95|3.38|1|–|–|–|–|1|0|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |April Fifth Action |60,925|3.44|2.06|1|–|–|–|–|1|1|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre |59,033|3.33|1.17|1|–|–|–|–|1|0|-|style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Social Workers' General Union |–|–|–|–|3,199|2.46|N/A|0|0|0|-| style="background-color:"|| style="text-align:left;" |Pro democracy individuals and others|155,812|8.80| –|3|27,594|21.21|–|4|7|−|-style="background-color:LightGreen"| style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 |Total for pro-democracy camp|1,105,388|62.44|1.88|18|81,713|62.81|7.00|7|25| 4|-| style="background-color:" || style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 |Non-partisan individuals and others | 2,830| 0.16| –| 0| 5,351| 4.11| –| 0| 0|−|-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|Total|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|1,770,190|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"||style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|30|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|130,086|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"||style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|30|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|60|style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan=13| |-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"| Valid votes|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 1,770,190|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 99.22|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0.08|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" rowspan="4" | |width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 130,086|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 96.41|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0.25|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3" rowspan="4" | |-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"| Invalid votes|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 13,941|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0.78|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0.08|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 4,849|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 3.59|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0.25|-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|Votes cast / turnout|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|1,784,131|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|55.63|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"||width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|134,935|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|70.14|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|13.64|-|style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|Registered voters|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|3,207,227|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|4.97|width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|192,374|width="40" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"||-| style="text-align:left;" colspan=13 |Source turnout: Electoral Affairs Commission. 11 candidates in 11 functional constituencies were elected unopposed to the Legislative Council.|} Note: For the joint list of pro-democrats in Hong Kong Island, Kowloon East and New Territories East, the votes are divided equally to each candidate.

Overview

The election was largely seen as a contest between the pro-democracy coalition and the pro-business and pro-Beijing coalitions. There were 162 candidates for 60 seats in the LegCo. Before the election, the pro-democratic camp was widely expected to gain the most votes and increase its representation from 22 seats in the LegCo. Some members of the pro-democratic camp aimed at securing an absolute majority of the seats in the legislature so that they would have the power to veto all government proposals.

The democratic camp called for direct elections for the Chief Executive of Hong Kong in 2007 and for LegCo in 2008, as well as rapid political reform. In contrast, the pro-Beijing and pro-business candidates placed more emphasis on economic growth and social stability. Most of the political parties are now setting 2012 as the ideal time for electoral reform.

While the democratic camp hoped to play up the issue of universal suffrage as a prominent issue in the election, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ruled out universal suffrage for the Chief Executive election in 2007 and for LegCo elections in 2008 in April 2004 before the election. Despite this, the pro-democratic camp insisted on promoting their agenda, which seemed to backfire when the campaign lost its original momentum. This was not helped by various sex and financial scandals of a few pro-democracy candidates. There were some allegations by the pro-democracy camp of Mainland Chinese influence behind this.

Some of the developments include:

Irregularities

There were a few reports of irregularities. Some polling stations ran out of ballot boxes, causing long delays in voting. To fit more ballots into the ballot boxes, some election workers forcefully stuffed ballots into the box using objects such as barbecue forks and metal rulers. Some stations also used random cardboard boxes without official seals. Some ballot boxes were opened before the close of polling.

The polling station operating manual had mistakes in it, so some candidate representatives were kicked out after the closing of the poll and were prevented from witnessing the counting, as required by law.

Some candidates have tried to challenge the election results, but have remained unsuccessful thus far.

A report on the election process was published shortly after the election.[5] Another report was commissioned by the government to suggest future improvements.[6]

Incumbents defeated

Eight incumbents lost re-election

PartyNameConstituencyRemarks
placed fourth on the list
bgcolor= placed second on the list;
running for New Territories East constituency in the last election

Candidate lists and results

Geographical Constituencies (30 seats)

Voting system: Party-list proportional representation with largest remainder method and Hare quota.

Results of the Geographical Constituencies
Hong Kong Island (香港島)
List № Party/Allegiance Candidate(s) Votes Votes % Seat(s) won
174,659 21.1ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:21.10 color:blue width:0.2in2
2Rita Lai-tai 65,661 18.5ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:18.50 color:blue width:0.2in1
3 Kin-shing
Chung-fai
Chui-chung
5,313 1.5ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:01.50 color:blue width:0.2in
4131,788 37.2ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:37.20 color:blue width:0.2in2
5Kelvin Kam-fai 2,830 0.8ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:00.80 color:blue width:0.2in
6/Civic Act-upAudrey Yuet-mee
(Article 45 Concern Group)
Cyd Sau-lan
(The Frontier, Civic Act-up)
73,844 20.9ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:20.90 color:blue width:0.2in1
TOTAL (Quota: 59,016 votes, 16.67%) 354,095 100.0ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:blue width:0.2in6
Kowloon West (九龍西)
List № Party/Allegiance Candidate(s) Votes Votes % Seat(s) won
1 Yuk-shing
Suet-fong
Po-kwan
1,824 0.8ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:00.80 color:blue width:0.2in
2Frederick Kin-kee 46,649 20.5ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:20.50 color:blue width:0.2in1
3 Chin-shek 43,460 19.1ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:19.10 color:blue width:0.2in1
461,770 27.1ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:27.10 color:blue width:0.2in1
5James Kun-sun
Ka-wai
Lam Ho-yeung
Kee
60,539 26.6ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:26.60 color:blue width:0.2in1
613,452 5.9ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:05.90 color:blue width:0.2in
TOTAL (Quota: 56,923 votes, 25%) 227,694 100.0ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:blue width:0.2in4
Kowloon East (九龍東)
List № Party/Allegiance Candidate(s) Votes Votes % Seat(s) won
1Fred Wah-ming
Chi-wai
Wai-to
56,462 19.2ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:19.20 color:blue width:0.2in1
2/FTU Kam-lam
Chun-wa
Tak-ming
55,306 18.8ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:18.80 color:blue width:0.2in1
3Albert Jing-han
Andrew Kwan-hang
(The Frontier)
73,479 25.0ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:25.00 color:blue width:0.2in1
4Alan Kah-kit
(Article 45 Concern Group)
56,175 19.1ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:19.10 color:blue width:0.2in1
5/DAB Yuen-han
Man-fai
Ka-piu
(Independent)
52,564 17.9ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:17.90 color:blue width:0.2in1
TOTAL (Quota: 58,797 votes, 20.00%) 293,986 100.0ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:blue width:0.2in5
New Territories West (新界西)
List № Party/Allegiance Candidate(s) Votes Votes % Seat(s) won
1Albert Wai-yip 36,278 7.83ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:07.83 color:blue width:0.2in1
262,500 13.49ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:13.49 color:blue width:0.2in1
362,342 13.45ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:13.45 color:blue width:0.2in1
459,033 12.74ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:12.74 color:blue width:0.2in1
5 Ping-tim 1,725 0.37ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:00.37 color:blue width:0.2in
6Stephen Shik-ngor 9,116 1.97ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:01.97 color:blue width:0.2in
7 Yiu-chung
Hok-ming
Che-cheung
Po-chun
Fan
Han-pan
Andy Kwong-sing
Philip King-wah
115,251 24.87ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:24.87 color:blue width:0.2in2
8 Tak-leung 1,920 0.41ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:00.41 color:blue width:0.2in
950,437 10.88ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:10.88 color:blue width:0.2in1
10New Century Forum4,511 0.97ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:00.97 color:blue width:0.2in
11 Cheuk-yan
Ngok-fung
45,725 9.87ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:09.87 color:blue width:0.2in1
12 Tim-sang
Fung-yi
Yin-chiu
Tung-wing
14,570 3.14ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:03.14 color:blue width:0.2in
TOTAL (Quota: 57,926 votes, 12.50%) 463,408 100.0ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:blue width:0.2in8
New Territories East (新界東)
List № Party/Allegiance Candidate(s) Votes Votes % Seat(s) won
1 Kwok-hung60,925 14.14ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:14.14 color:blue width:0.2in1
2Progressive Alliance14,174 3.29ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:03.29 color:blue width:0.2in
3 7.1 United Front Andrew Kar-foo
(Democratic)
Emily Wai-hing
(The Frontier)
Ka-wah
(Article 45 Concern Group)
Sing-chi
(Democratic)
Richard Yiu-cheong
(HKCTU)
Shirley Suk-ping
(Democratic)
Ricky Yiu-lam
(The Frontier)
168,833 39.17ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:39.17 color:blue width:0.2in3
4James Pei-chun
68,560 15.91ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:15.91 color:blue width:0.2in1
523,081 5.36ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:05.36 color:blue width:0.2in
695,434 22.14ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:22.14 color:blue width:0.2in2
TOTAL (Quota: 61,572 votes, 14.29%) 431,007 100.0ImageSize = width:100 height:25PlotArea = left:0 bottom:0 top:0 right:0TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal format:yyyyDateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:100TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = earlyColors = id:gray value:rgb(0.85,0.85,0.85) id:blue value:rgb(0.00,0.56,0.86)BarData = bar:WikipediasPlotData= bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:gray width:0.2in bar:Wikipedias from:0 till:100 color:blue width:0.2in7

Functional Constituencies (30 seats)

Voting systems: Different voting systems apply to different functional constituencies, namely for the Heung Yee Kuk, Agriculture and Fisheries, Insurance and Transport, the preferential elimination system of voting; and for the remaining 24 FCs used the first-past-the-post voting system.[7]

Results of the Functional Constituencies
width=180pxConstituency Incumbent Result Candidate(s)
Heung Yee Kukwidth=5px style="background-color: " Wong-fat
(Liberal)
Incumbent ran for DC FC
Nonpartisan gain
width=5px style="background-color: " Wai-keung
uncontested
Agriculture and Fisheries Yung-kan
(DAB)
Incumbent hold Yung-kan (DAB)
uncontested
Insurance Bernard Charnwut Incumbent holdBernard Charnwut
uncontested
Transport Miriam Kin-yee
(Liberal)
Incumbent re-electedMiriam Kin-yee (Liberal)
uncontested
Education Man-kwong
(PTU/Democratic)
Incumbent re-elected Man-kwong (PTU/Democratic) 82.94%
Kai-chun 17.06%
Legal Margaret Ngoi-yee
(Independent)
Incumbent hold Margaret Ngoi-yee (Independent) 74.73%
Ka-yin (Independent) 17.21%
Judy Kei-yuk (Independent) 8.06%
Accountancy Eric Li Ka-cheung
(Independent)
Incumbent retired
Independent gain
Heung-man (Independent) 29.05%
Mo-po (Independent) 28.74%
Elve Yiu-fai (Independent) 15.54%
Edward Kwong-fai 9.13%
Louis Wing-on (Independent) 5.17%
Peter Po-fun 5.16%
Sau-yuk (Independent) 3.80%
Wilfred Shek-chun 2.09%
Wilfred Wang-tai 1.32%
Medical Wing-lok
(Independent)
Incumbent lost re-election
Independent gain
Ka-ki (Independent) 50.88%
Wing-lok (Independent) 42.45%
Johnny Kam-chuen 6.67%
Health Services Michael Kwok-fung
(Independent)
Incumbent lost re-election
Independent gain
Joseph Kok-long (Independent) 43.01%
Michael Kwok-fung (Independent democrat) 30.14%
Scarlett Oi-lan 14.27%
Kwai-fung (Independent) 12.58%
Engineering Raymond Chung-tai
Incumbent re-electedRaymond Chung-tai 57.29%
Wang-kwong 42.71%
Architectural, Surveying and Planning Incumbent lost re-election
Independent gain
Patrick Sau-shing (Independent) 28.36%
Kenneth Jor-kin (Independent) 16.29%
Kaizer Ping-cheung 15.46%
Roger Anthony (Independent) 13.73%
Stanley Wing-fai (Democratic) 13.23%
Yiu-fai (Independent) 12.93%
Labour (3 seats) Fung-ying
(Nonpartisan)
Incumbent re-elected Fung-ying 32.43%
Chi-kin (FTU) 29.00%
Kwok-hing (FTU) 28.00%
Kwok-keung 10.57%
Fu-wah
(FTU)
Incumbent retired
FTU hold
Kwok-keung
(DAB)
Incumbent lost re-election
FTU gain
Social Welfare Chi-kwong
(Democratic)
Incumbent retired
Nonpartisan gain
Chiu-hung 39.01%
Kwok-che (SWGU) 38.24%
Christine Meng-sang 22.75%
Real Estate and Construction Abraham Lai-him
(Independent)
Incumbent hold Abraham Lai-him (Independent)
uncontested
Tourism Howard
(Liberal)
Incumbent re-electedHoward 48.20%
Paul Wai-chun 40.75%
Freddy Hing-ning 11.05%
Commercial (First) James Pei-chun
(Liberal)
Incumbent ran for NTE GC
Liberal hold
Jeffrey Kin-fung (Liberal)
uncontested
Commercial (Second) Philip Yu-hongIncumbent hold Philip Yu-hong
uncontested
Industrial (First) Kenneth Woo-shou
(Liberal)
Incumbent ran for NTW GC
Liberal hold
Andrew Kwan-yuen (Liberal)
uncontested
Industrial (Second) Ming-wahIncumbent hold Ming-wah
uncontested
Finance David Kwok-poIncumbent holdDavid Kwok-po
uncontested
Financial Services Incumbent lost re-election
Nonpartisan gain
Pui-chung 51.69%
Christopher Wah-fung 17.29%
King-cheong 16.35%
Ka-pun (Liberal) 11.47%
Chi-kin (Progressive Alliance) 3.20%
Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication Timothy Tsun-ting Incumbent hold Timothy Tsun-ting 69.08%
Hon-kin (Democratic) 30.92%
Import and Export Cheung-ching
(Progressive Alliance)
Incumbent retired
DAB gain
Ting-kwong (DAB)
uncontested
Textiles and Garment Sophie Yau-fun
(Liberal)
Incumbent re-elected Sophie Yau-fun (Liberal) 77.94%
Kam-yuen 22.06%
Wholesale and Retail Selina Shuk-yee
(Liberal)
Incumbent ran for NTW GC
Liberal hold
Vincent Kang (Liberal) 46.85%
Leung-lo 36.66%
Samuel Tim-shing 16.49%
Information Technology Chung-kai
(Democratic)
Incumbent re-elected Chung-kai (Democratic) 52.59%
Wai-ho 42.65%
Mun-yee (Independent) 4.76%
Catering Tommy Yu-yan
(Liberal)
Incumbent re-elected Tommy Yu-yan (Liberal) 63.75%
Josephine Shu-ying 21.75%
Sin-ying 14.50%
District Council Kwok-him
(DAB)
Incumbent retired
Liberal gain
Wong-fat (Liberal) 61.24%
Cosmas Kwok-chuen (Democratic) 28.90%
Chi-yuen 9.86%

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Sing, Ming. Politics and Government in Hong Kong. Taylor & Francis. 2009.
  2. Web site: Annex II : Method for the Formation of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Its Voting Procedures. The Basic Law. 11 November 2017. 31 October 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171031022004/http://www.basiclaw.gov.hk/en/basiclawtext/annex_2.html. dead.
  3. Wong, Yiu-Chung. One Country, Two Systems in Crisis: Hong Kong's Transformation Since the Handover. Lexington books.
  4. Book: Kuan, Hsin-chi. The 2004 Legislative Council Elections in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2006.
  5. Web site: 2004 Legislative Council Election. Electoral Affairs Commission. 19 February 2009.
  6. Web site: Report of the Independent Committee of Experts for the Review on the Management, Planning and Conduct of Elections. 6 May 2005. Government Information Centre. 19 February 2009.
  7. Web site: 2004 LegCo Election- Facts about the Election . Elections.gov.hk.