2016 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon East

2016 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon East
← 2012 4 September 2016 (2016-09-04)
All 5 Kowloon East seats to the Legislative Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Wilson Or Wu Chi-wai Paul Tse
Party DAB Democratic Independent
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 1 seat, 16.7% 1 seat, 18.2% 1 seat, 13.5%
Seats before 1 1 1
Seats won 1 1 1
Seat change Steady Steady Steady
Popular vote 51,516 50,309 47,527
Percentage 15.7% 15.3% 14.5%
Swing Decrease1.0% Decrease0.1% Increase1.0%
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Wong Kwok-kin Jeremy Tam
Party FTU Civic
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy
Last election 1 seat, 14.3% 1 seat, 14.6%
Seats before 1 1
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Steady Steady
Popular vote 47,318 45,408
Percentage 14.4% 13.8%
Swing Increase0.1% Decrease0.8%
Party with most votes in each District Council Constituency.

These are the Kowloon East results of the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election. The election was held on 4 September 2016 and all 5 seats in Kowloon East where consisted of Wong Tai Sin District and Kwun Tong District were contested. The Pro-Beijing camp retained the majority of the Kowloon East seats. The Democratic Party, Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, Federation of Trade Unions and Civic Party each secured their party's incumbent seat, as well as independent Paul Tse who won the last seat in the last election, with Wilson Or and Jeremy Tam first elected to the Legislative Council.

Overall results

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Before election:

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2 3
Anti-establishment Pro-establishment

Change in composition:

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2 3
Anti-establishment Pro-establishment
Party Seats Seats
change 		Contesting
list(s) 		Votes % %
change
DAB 1 0 1 51,516 15.7 −1.0
FTU 1 0 1 47,318 14.4 +0.1
VLHK 0 0 1 2,444 0.7 N/A
Independent 1 0 1 47,527 14.5 N/A
Pro-Beijing camp 3 0 4 148,805 45.2 +0.7
Democratic 1 0 1 50,309 15.3 −0.1
Civic 1 0 1 45,408 13.8 −0.8
People Power 0 0 1 31,815 9.7 –3.2
Labour 0 0 1 2,535 0.8 N/A
Frontier 0 0 1 2,603 0.8 −1.2
Independent 0 0 1 1,393 0.4 N/A
Pro-democracy camp 2 0 6 131,528 40.0 −14.3
Civic Passion 0 0 1 33,271 10.1 N/A
KEC 0 0 1 12,854 3.9 N/A
Localist groups 0 0 2 46,125 14.0 N/A
Turnout: 328,993 56.0 +4.0

Candidates list

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Vote share

  DAB (15.66%)
  Democratic (15.29%)
  FTU (14.38%)
  Civic (13.80%)
  Civic Passion (10.11%)
  People Power (9.67%)
  KEC (3.91%)
  Frontier (0.79%)
  VLHK (0.74%)
  Other (15.65%)
Legislative Election 2016: Kowloon East
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
DAB Wilson Or Chong-shing
Joe Lai Wing-ho, Cheung Ki-tang 		51,516 15.66 –0.99
Democratic Wu Chi-wai
Mok Kin-shing, Cheng Keng-ieong, Wu Chi-kin 		50,309 15.29 –0.08
Nonpartisan Paul Tse Wai-chun 47,527 14.45 +0.91
FTU Wong Kwok-kin
Chow Luen-kiu, Kan Ming-tung, Kwok Wang-hing 		47,318 14.38 +0.04
Civic Jeremy Jansen Tam Man-ho
Alan Leong Kah-kit 		45,408 13.80 –0.83
Civic Passion Wong Yeung-tat 33,271 10.11 N/A
People Power Tam Tak-chi 31,815 9.67 –3.18
KEC Chan Chak-to 12,854 3.91 N/A
Frontier Tam Heung-man 2,603 0.79 –1.17
Labour Wu Sui-shan, Chiu Shi-shun 2,535 0.77 N/A
VLHK Patrick Ko Tat-pun 2,444 0.74 N/A
Nonpartisan Lui Wing-kei 1,393 0.42 N/A
Total valid votes 328,993 100
Rejected ballots 7,754
Turnout 336,738 55.98 +4.01
Registered electors 601,566

Opinion polling

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Main article: Opinion polling for the Hong Kong legislative election, 2016 § Kowloon East

See also

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References

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