2016 Hong Kong legislative election in District Council (Second)

These are the District Council (Second) functional constituency results of the 2016 Legislative Council election. The election was held on 4 September 2016 and all 5 seats in were contested. The pan-democracy camp failed to achieve coordination and fielded six candidate lists while the pro-Beijing camp fielded only three seats, two for Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) and one for the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU). FTU incumbent Chan Yuen-han was no longer eligible for running as she retired from the District Council and Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) and Democratic Party incumbents Frederick Fung and Albert Ho lost their eligibility for running as they lost their District Council seats.

2016 Hong Kong legislative election in District Council (Second)

← 2012 4 September 2016 (2016-09-04)

All 5 District Council (Second) seats to the Legislative Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Roy Kwong &
James To
Starry Lee &
Holden Chow
Leung Yiu-chung
Party Democratic DAB NWSC
Alliance Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy
Leader's seat Pek Long & Olympic To Kwa Wan North & Tung Chung South Kwai Fong
Last election 2 seats, 38.5% 1 seat, 30.0% N/A
Seats before 2 1 0
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change Steady Increase1 Increase1
Popular vote 735,597 568,561 303,457
Percentage 38.5% 29.8% 15.9%
Swing Increase4.2% Decrease0.2% N/A

Party with most votes in each District Council Constituency.

The Democratic Party and the DAB both fielded their young candidates, Kwong Chun-yu and Holden Chow, to fight for the last seat, in which they were neck-to-neck in the opinion polls, while Democratic Party veteran James To, DAB chairwoman Starry Lee, Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre's (NWSC) veteran Leung Yiu-chung and FTU veteran Wong Kwok-hing led comfortably in the polls. 48 hours before the election day, three pro-democrat candidates Sumly Chan of Civic Party, Ho Kai-ming of ADPL and Kwan Wing-yip of Neo Democrats abandoned their campaign to boost the chance for Kwong to win the last seat. Pro-democrat scholar Benny Tai's "smart voters" plan also ask his participants to vote for Kwong. As a result, Kwong received the highest votes of 491,667 while James To won the last seat by defeating Wong Kwok-hing with a margin of 10,694 votes.

Overall results

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Before election:

3 2
Anti-establishment Pro-establishment

Change in composition:

3 2
Anti-establishment Pro-establishment
Party Seats Seats
change
Contesting
list(s)
Votes % %
change
Democratic 2 0 2 735,597 38.5 +4.2
NWSC 1 +1 1 303,457 15.9 N/A
Civic 0 0 1 28,311 1.5 N/A
Neo Democrats 0 0 1 22,631 1.2 N/A
ADPL 0 –1 0 17,175 0.9 –15.6
Pro-democracy camp 3 0 3 1,108,171 58.0 +7.2
DAB 2 +1 2 568,561 29.8 –0.2
FTU 0 –1 1 233,236 12.6 –3.3
Pro-Beijing camp 2 0 3 801,797 45.4 –3.4
Turnout: 1,909,968 57.1 +5.1

Candidates list

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Vote share

  Democratic (38.51%)
  DAB (29.77%)
  NWSC (15.89%)
  FTU (12.21%)
  Civic (1.48%)
  Neo Democrats (1.24%)
  ADPL (0.90%)
Legislative Election 2012: District Council (Second)
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
Democratic Kwong Chun-yu 491,667 25.74
(20.00+5.74)
+11.36
DAB Starry Lee Wai-king
Hung Lin-cham, Chu Lap-wai, Ngan Man-yu, Siu Ka-yi
304,222 15.93 –1.48
NWSC Leung Yiu-chung 303,457 15.89 N/A
DAB Holden Chow Ho-ding
Li Sai-wing, Nixie Lam Lam, Mo Shing-fung
264,339 13.84 +1.29
Democratic James To Kun-sun 243,930 12.77 –7.11
FTU Wong Kwok-hing, Mok Kin-wing, Wong Wang-to, Lau Kwai-yung 233,236 12.21 –3.26
Civic Sumly Chan Yuen-sum 28,311 1.48 N/A
Neo Democrats Kwan Wing-yip, Hui Yui-yu, Lai Ming-chak 22,631 1.24 N/A
ADPL Kalvin Ho Kai-ming 17,175 0.90 N/A
Total valid votes 1,909,968 100.00
Rejected ballots 73,081
Turnout 1,983,049 57.09 –5.14
Registered electors 3,473,792

Opinion polling

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See also

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References

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