2011 Hong Kong local elections

Hong Kong District Councils election, 2011

20 November 2011
Elected Constituencies 412 seats in the Districts Councils
Leader Tam Yiu-chung Albert Ho Miriam Lau Party DAB Democratic Liberal Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Leader's seat N/A Lok Chui, Tuen Mun N/A Last election 117 seats 59 seats 14 seats Current seats 128 59 27   Leader Lau Kong-wah Frederick Fung Alan Leong Party Civil Force ADPL Civic Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Pan-democracy Leader's seat N/A Lai Kok, Sham Shui Po N/A Last election 18 seats 17 seats 8 seats Current seats 18 17 12

The ‘’‘2011 Hong Kong District Councils election’‘’ will be held on 20 November 2007. Elections will be held to all 18 districts of Hong Kong, returned 412 members from directly elected constituencies councils member.

Background

Main Article:Democratic development in Hong Kong and Consultation Document on the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive and for Forming the LegCo in 2012

Pro-democracy camp in Hong Kong has been urging for universal suffrage for decades. In 2005, a constitutional reform package was carried out by Donald Tsang, the Chief Executive. However, it was voted down by the pan-democrats as it did not state a clear timetable or road map to achieve an ultimate universal suffrage.

On 29 December 2007, the NPCSC announced that the Chief Executive and all members of Legislative Council may be selected by universal suffrage in 2017 and 2020 respectively. Yet, the statement by Beijing was unclear and it implied the term "universal suffrage" may be defined by the Central Government.

Afterward, Donald Tsang carried out another reform package in 2009. While the Civic Party and the League of Social Democrats councilors resigned from Legislative Council in order to launch a de facto referendum against the package and urging for real universal suffrage, their ally, Democratic Party went for negotiation with the mainland officials and carried out a revised proposal. On 24-25 June 2010, the revised package was passed through in the LegCo. Nevertheless, it brought out a major split within the pan-democracy camp.

According to the new reform pacakge, general public are allowed to elect district council members into LegCo from the new five-seat district council functional constituency following their nomination within the councilors in 2012 election. District councils election thus become a new battlefield for the new five seats of LegCo.