Hong Kong legislative election, 2016 (Kowloon East)

2016 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon East

4 September 2016 (2016-09-04)

All 5 Kowloon East seats to the Legislative Council

	First party	Second party
	DAB
Leader	Wilson Or	Wu Chi-wai
Party	DAB	Democratic
Alliance	Pro-Beijing	Pan-democracy
Last election	1 seat, 16.7%	1 seat, 18.2%
Seats before	1	1
Seats won	1	1
Seat change
Popular vote	51,516	50,309
Percentage	15.7%	15.3%
Swing	1.0%	0.1%

	Third party	Fourth 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
Popular vote	47,318	45,408
Percentage	14.4%	13.8%
Swing	0.1%	0.8%

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

Before election:

↓
2	3
Anti-establishment	Pro-establishment

Change in composition:

↓
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	+0.7
Turnout:					328,993	56.0	+4.0

Vote share

DAB (15.66%)

Democratic (15.29%)

FTU (14.38%)

Civic (13.80%)

KEC (3.91%)

Frontier (0.79%)

VLHK (0.74%)

Other (15.65%)

Legislative Election 2016: Kowloon East
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	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

Background

Pre-election issues

Parties and groups
in the election

Pro-Beijing camp	Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Liberal Party New People's Party Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions New Century Forum Justice Alliance Politihk Social Strategic Voice of Loving Hong Kong

Pan-democracy camp	Democratic Party (primaries) Civic Party PP–LSD (People Power League of Social Democrats) Professional Commons Labour Party Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood Neo Democrats Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union Pioneer of Victoria Park

Localist groups	ALLinHK (Youngspiration Kowloon East Community Tin Shui Wai New Force) CP–PPI–HKRO (Civic Passion Proletariat Political Institute Hong Kong Resurgence Order) Demosistō Democracy Groundwork Hong Kong Localism Power Christians to the World

Moderate groups	Path of Democracy Third Side

Disqualified	Conservative Party Democratic Progressive Party of Hong Kong Hong Kong Indigenous Hong Kong National Party Nationalist Hong Kong People Out of Parliament Party

Results by constituency

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