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===Incumbents defeated===
Fifteen incumbents lost re-election.
* [[Albert Chan]] ([[People Power (Hong Kong)|People Power]]) – [[New Territories West (constituency)|New Territories West]]
* [[Christopher Chung]] ([[Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong]]) – [[Hong Kong Island (constituency)|Hong Kong Island]]
* [[Gary Fan]] ([[Neo Democrats]]) – [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]]
* [[Frederick Fung]] ([[Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood]]) – [[New Territories West (constituency)|New Territories West]]
* [[Albert Ho]] ([[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]]) – [[New Territories West (constituency)|New Territories West]]
* [[Cyd Ho]] ([[Labour Party (Hong Kong)|Labour Party]]) – [[Hong Kong Island (constituency)|Hong Kong Island]]
* [[Emily Lau]] ([[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)#List of chairs|Leader of the Democratic Party]]) – [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]]
* [[Lee Cheuk-yan]] ([[Labour Party (Hong Kong)|Labour Party]]) – [[New Territories West (constituency)|New Territories West]]
* [[Alan Leong]] ([[Civic Party]]) – [[Kowloon East (constituency)|Kowloon East]]
* [[Sin Chung-kai]] ([[Democratic Party (Hong Kong)|Democratic Party]]) – [[Hong Kong Island (constituency)|Hong Kong Island]]
* [[Tang Ka-piu]] ([[Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions]]) – [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]]
* [[James Tien (politician)|James Tien]] ([[Liberal Party (Hong Kong)|Liberal Party]]) – [[New Territories East (constituency)|New Territories East]]
* [[Tony Tse]] ([[Independent politician|Independent]]) – [[Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape (constituency)|Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape]]
* [[Wong Kwok-hing]] ([[Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions]]) – [[District Council (Second)]]
* [[Wong Yuk-man]] ([[Proletariat Political Institute]]) – [[Kowloon West (constituency)|Kowloon West]]


==Candidate lists and results==
==Candidate lists and results==

Revision as of 14:30, 5 September 2016

Hong Kong legislative election, 2016
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All 70 seats to the Legislative Council
Opinion polls
  First party Second party Third party
  Starry Lee Emily Lau Andrew Leung
Leader Starry Lee Emily Lau Andrew Leung
Party DAB Democratic BPA
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing
Leader's seat District Council (Second) New Territories East
(defeated)[n 1] 		Industrial (First)
Last election 13 seats, 20.22% 6 seats, 13.65% New party
Seats won 12
(7 GCs + 3 FCs) 		7
(5 GCs + 2 FCs) 		7
(1 GC + 6 FCs)
Seat change Decrease1 Increase1 Steady
Popular vote 361,617 199,876 49,745
Percentage 16.68% 9.22% 2.29%
Swing Decrease3.54% Decrease4.43% N/A
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Alan Leong Lam Suk-yee Vincent Fang
Leader Alan Leong Lam Suk-yee Vincent Fang
Party Civic FTU Liberal
Alliance Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing
Leader's seat Kowloon East
(defeated)[n 1] 		Did not stand Retired from Wholesale & Retail
Last election 6 seats, 14.08% 6 seats, 7.06% 5 seats, 2.64%
Seats won 6
(5 GCs + 1 FC) 		5
(3 GCs + 2 FCs) 		4
(0 GC + 4 FCs)
Seat change Steady Decrease1 Decrease1
Popular vote 207,855 169,854 21,500
Percentage 9.59 7.83% 0.99%
Swing Decrease4.49% Increase0.77% Decrease1.70%
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
  Regina Ip Erica Yuen Baggio Leung
Leader Regina Ip Erica Yuen
and Avery Ng 		Baggio Leung
Party NPP PP/LSD Youngspiration
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy ALLinHK
Leader's seat Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island
(defeated)[n 1] 		New Territories East
Last election 2 seats, 3.76% 4 seats, 14.59% New party
Seats won 3
(3 GCs + 0 FC) 		2
(2 GCs + 0 FC) 		2
(2 GCs + 0 FC)
Seat change Increase1 Decrease1 Increase2
Popular vote 167,589 156,019 81,422
Percentage 7.73% 7.20% 3.75%
Swing Increase3.97% Decrease7.39% N/A
Elected candidates by each constituency
President before election

Jasper Tsang
DAB

Elected President

TBD

The 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 4 September 2016 for the 6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). A total of 70 members, 35 from geographical constituencies (GCs) and 35 from functional constituencies (FCs), will be returned. The election comes after the rejection of the constitutional reform proposals which suggested the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council remains unchanged.

A historic record number of 2.2 million voters, 58% of the registered electorates, turned out in wake of the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy movement often dubbed as "Umbrella Revolution" with many new faces rose from the post-Occupy political forces got elected.[1] Demosisto's Nathan Law, a 23-year-old Occupy student leader became the youngest candidate to be elected along with his allies Lau Siu-lai and Eddie Chu.

The radical localist groups, Youngspiration's Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching, as well as Civic Passion's Cheng Chung-tai, also won seats after they were allowed to enter into the race after the controversy of the government's disqualified six localists for their advocacy for Hong Kong independence. As a result, four veteran democrats were ousted, including Wong Yuk-man, Labour Party's Lee Cheuk-yan and Cyd Ho, Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood's (ADPL) Frederick Fung.

Many veteran pro-Beijing incumbents, including the LegCo president Jasper Tsang, also Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong's (DAB) Chan Kam-lam, Tam Yiu-chung and Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions's (FTU) Chan Yuen-han decided to step down, while pan-democratic heavyweights, including Civic Party leader Alan Leong, Democratic Party chairwoman Emily Lau and veterans Albert Ho and Sin Chung-kai, as well as pro-Beijing Liberal Party honorary chairman James Tien, chose to stand as second candidate to get their party's newcomers elected.

Together with the post-Occupy radicals and localists, the anti-establishment forces won 30 out of 70 seats; managed to secured the majority in the geographical constituencies and the crucial one-third minority to maintain the veto power on government's constitutional reform proposal.

Background

Electoral reform failure and Umbrella Revolution

Main articles: 2014–15 Hong Kong electoral reform and 2014 Hong Kong protests

The election comes after the rejection of constitutional reform proposals of the Leung Chun-ying administration in mid-2015 which suggested the electoral method for the Legislative Council (LegCo) in 2016 be unchanged.[2] On 31 August 2014, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) set limits for the 2016 Legislative Council and 2017 Chief Executive elections. While reaffirming the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council election remained unchanged, the NPCSC decision allowed the Chief Executive (CE) to be directly elected but "unpatriotic" candidates would have to be screened out by a Beijing-controlled nominating committee.[3] In response to the NPCSC decision, the student activists staged a class boycott which led into a months-long large-scale occupy movement as proposed by the Occupy Central, which was referred as the "Umbrella Revolution".[4][5]

The government proposals were overwhelmingly rejected in the Legislative Council following a failed walk-out by the pro-Beijing camp on 18 June 2015. In response, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying urged the voters to "punish" the opposition democratic candidates by voting them out in the upcoming legislative election.[6]

ThunderGo plan

In early 2016, Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai, who was inspired by the electoral victory the Democratic Progressive Party received in the 2016 Taiwanese legislative election, mapped out a "ThunderGo plan" for pan-democrats to grab half of the seats in the Legislative Council election to have much stronger bargaining power in future political reform. He suggests the non-pro-Beijing camp to field no more than 23 lists if their goal is to win 23 seats in the geographical constituencies, six tickets for nine-seat New Territories West and New Territories East, four tickets for six-seat Hong Kong Island and Kowloon West, and three for five-seat Kowloon East respectively.[7] For the functional constituencies, Tai suggested that besides retaining the current six trade-based functional constituencies and three territory-wide directly elected District Council (Second) super seats, the camp needs to target three additional seats in Medical, Engineering and Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape.[7] The plan met with reservations from the very diverse interests within pro-democracy political parties, who could not agree on a united front. Tai's plan hit its setback when the Neo Democrats decided not to support the proposed coordinating mechanism for the District Council (Second) super seats in May.[7][8]

Tai also worked on a "smart voters" campaign which would involve 25,000 voters who would indicate their preferences on an interactive poll via Telegram and would be informed of the popularity of candidates according to polls the day before the official vote, and then 21/ 2 hours before it closed. Such "smart voters" would withhold their votes until 8pm and then vote for those whose numbers are weaker.[9]

Emergence of new political forces

The emergence of new political groups led by young activists began to influence the political landscape: Edward Leung of Hong Kong Indigenous, a pro-independence localist group, received a better-than expected result in the New Territories East by-election in February 2016 by taking more than 66,000 votes and gaining about 15 percent of the total votes. After the election, Leung claimed localism had gained a foothold as the third most important power in local politics, standing side by side with the pan-democracy and pro-Beijing camps.[10] A day after the election, three localist groups, Wong Yuk-man's Proletariat Political Institute, Wong Yeung-tat's Civic Passion and Chin Wan's Hong Kong Resurgence Order, announced to run in the upcoming election.[11]

On 10 April 2016. six localist groups which emerged after the 2014 Umbrella Revolution, Youngspiration, Kowloon East Community, Tin Shui Wai New Force, Cheung Sha Wan Community Establishment Power, Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power and Tuen Mun Community, formed an electoral alliance under the name "ALLinHK" planned to field candidates in four of the five geographical constituencies with the agenda to put forward a referendum on Hong Kong's self-determination,[12] while Hong Kong Indigenous and another new pro-independence Hong Kong National Party also stated that they will run in the upcoming election.

Also on 10 April 2016, the student leaders in the Umbrella Revolution, Joshua Wong, Oscar Lai and Agnes Chow of Scholarism and Nathan Law of the Hong Kong Federation of Students (HKFS) formed a new party called Demosistō.[13] The new party calls for referendum on Hong Kong's future after 2047 when the one country, two systems is supposed to expire.[14] and aimed to field candidates in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon East.

Ronny Tong's Path of Democracy and Tik Chi-yuen's Third Side, the two new political groups which split from the Civic Party and Democratic Party respectively, seek a middle path between the pro-Beijing camp and pan-democracy camp on achieving democracy, with plans to field candidates in the geographical constituency election.

The soaring number of political groups and candidates may split the pro-democracy votes, according to political scientist Professor Ma Ngok.[15]

Pre-election issues

Leung Chun-ying's re-election

See also: Leung Chun-ying as Chief Executive of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2017

The pan-democracy camp has campaigned to block Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, whose popularity dropped to a new low, from serving a second term. Technology and media entrepreneur Ricky Wong Wai-kay, whose Hong Kong Television Network (HKTV) free-to-air television licence was denied by Leung's Executive Council in October 2013 and sparked public uproar and protests, also started his "ABC campaign" (Anyone but CY) by announcing Leung's exit as his key campaign platform.[16] Wong is backed by the Liberal Party, a pro-Beijing party representing the business sector which has been at odds with the Chief Executive since the 2012 Chief Executive election when the Liberals openly opposed Leung.

On 28 July, President of the Legislative Council Jasper Tsang and Financial Secretary John Tsang both expressed interest in running for the Chief Executive in 2017 in different occasions. Political analysts said that the duo's moves would take some pressure off pro-Beijing camp preparing for the Legislative Council election as pro-Beijing candidates had struggled when asked in public if they supported Leung's re-election.[17]

Causeway Bay bookseller disappearances

Main article: Causeway Bay Books disappearances

Lam Wing-kee, one of the five Causeway Bay booksellers who went missing from October 2015 returned to Hong Kong and revealed at a press conference in June 2016 that he was kidnapped at the China–Hong Kong border in October and put through eight months of mental torture. The controversy sparked concerns about whether mainland law enforcement officers were taking the law into their own hands in Hong Kong and became a blow to Hongkongers' confidence in the "one country, two systems". Professor Lau Siu-kai, former head of the Hong Kong government's think tank, the Central Policy Unit, worried that more people may vote for pan-democracy camp in September's election.[18]

Resignations of ICAC heads controversy

In July, acting head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Rebecca Li Bo-lan resigned after she was removed from her position by ICAC commissioner Simon Peh Yun-lu, less than a year after he appointed her. The rare move amid speculation that Li was removed over an investigation into Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's receipt of HK$50 million from Australian firm UGL Limited.[19] Less than a week later, long-serving ICAC principal investigator Dale Ko also resigned without any meaningful official explanation. The controversy sparked calls for a special Legislative Council investigation and raised fears about the reputation of the anti-corruption body.[20]

Ban on pro-independence candidates controversy

Main article: Hong Kong LegCo candidates' disqualification controversy

On 14 July 2016, the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) announced its plan to require all candidates to sign an additional "confirmation form" in the nomination to declare their understanding of Hong Kong being an inalienable part of China as stipulated in the Basic Law, in response to many potential localist candidates advocating or promoting Hong Kong independence. The EAC states that anyone making a false declaration in the nomination form is liable to criminal sanction.[21]

EAC returning officers also sent emails to several applicants who had not been confirmed as official candidates, including Hong Kong Indigenous' Edward Leung, Civic Passion's Alvin Cheng, Hong Kong National Party's Chan Ho-tin, to ask whether they would still advocate independence after submitting the nomination form.[22] Those questions were claimed to be a factor to determine the validity of their nominations.

After the end of the nomination period, six localist candidates received emails from the EAC which said their nominations were "invalidated", which included Chan Ho-tin, Democratic Progressive Party's Yeung Ke-cheong, Nationalist Hong Kong's Nakade Hitsujiko, Conservative Party's Alice Lai Yee-man, Hong Kong Indigenous' Edward Leung and independent Chan Kwok-keung, although many of them had signed the additional confirmation form; all except Yeung had signed the declaration statement in the nomination form saying they will "uphold the Basic Law and pledge allegiance to the Hong Kong SAR" as required by the Legislative Council Ordinance. New Territories East constituency returning officer Cora Ho Lai-sheung rejected Leung's nomination on the basis that she did not trust Leung "genuinely changed his previous stance for independence."[23][24]

Approval for promotional leaflets controversy

The Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) was also accused of withholding approval for promotional leaflets with a number of pro-democracy candidates, including those of Democracy Groundwork's Lau Siu-lai, Demosistō's Nathan Law, pro-democracy activist Eddie Chu, which contain words such as "self-determination" and "civil referendum". Lau accused the EAC of "engaging in political screening" and "picking on certain candidates."[25] A new version of Law's pamphlets was approved on Wednesday after the party replaced the phrases in question with icons such as the sun, moon and stars. The revised pamphlets was added with words stating the content was subject to "universe-scale political censorship".[26]

Contesting parties and candidates

A historic record of 289 validly nominated candidates contested in the election, two more than the previous election, after seven candidates were disqualified, six of whom due to their pro-independence stance, and two withdrew their candidatures. 84 lists with a total of 213 candidates contested the 35 geographical constituencies, while 55 candidates contested in the traditional functional constituencies, 43 of them ran for 18 seats in the functional constituencies. A total of 21 candidates belonging to 9 lists contested the five "super seats" in the District Council (Second) functional constituency.[27]

Pro-Beijing camp

Pan-democracy camp

Localist groups

Moderate groups

See also: Centrism § Hong Kong
  • Path of Democracy: The new "middle-of-the-road" group led by former Civic Party legislator Ronny Tong fielded two candidates, governors Gary Wong Chi-him and Raymond Mak Ka-chun in Hong Kong Island and New Territories East.[50][51]
  • Third Side: The new "middle-of-the-road" party led by former Democratic Party vice-chairman Tik Chi-yuen planned to field candidates in Kowloon West and two New Territories constituencies, but later dropped out of the New Territories East contest and triggered the departure of ten party member including two vice-chairmen Marcus Liu Tin-shing and Ben Kuen Ping-yiu.[52][53][54] Liu and Kuen later led an independent ticket in New Territories East; another party member Wong Sing-chi decided to run in Social Welfare as an independent.

Retiring incumbents

Constituency Departing incumbents Party
Hong Kong Island Kenneth Chan Ka-lok Civic
Jasper Tsang Yok-sing DAB
Kowloon East Chan Kam-lam DAB
New Territories West Tam Yiu-chung DAB
Heung Yee Kuk Lau Wong-fat BPA
Medical Leung Ka-lau Nonpartisan
Social Welfare Cheung Kwok-che Labour/SWGU
Industrial (Second) Lam Tai-fai Nonpartisan
Finance Ng Leung-sing Nonpartisan
Wholesale and Retail Vincent Fang Kang Liberal
District Council (First) Ip Kwok-him DAB
District Council (Second) Chan Yuen-han FTU

Defeated incumbents

Campaign

Election strategies

Many political parties and groups and individuals formed strategic alliances in the campaign. Alvin Yeung of the Civic Party who led in the opinion polls in the New Territories East cooperated with Labour Party's Fernando Cheung who traced behind in the polls. Leung Yiu-chung of the Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre (NWSC) who ran in the territory-wide District Council (Second) "super seat" also had joint-promotional leaflets with Lau Siu-lai of Democracy Groundwork in Kowloon West. Liberal Party honorary chairman James Tien who was running in the New Territories East and "middle-of-the-road" politician Ricky Wong Wai-kay who aimed at the last seat in Hong Kong Island also went out of their constituencies and campaigned for each other. James Tien also campaigned for the "middle-of-the-road" party Third Side's Tik Chi-yuen who aimed at the last seat in Kowloon West against Yau Wai-ching of the localist political group Youngspiration.[55] On 15 August, it was reported that volunteers and staff from Kowloon West New Dynamic chaired by pro-Beijing politician Priscilla Leung helped Tik arrange a meet-the-public event in Sham Shui Po.[56]

In the District Council (Second) constituency, the Democratic Party also asked the supporters of veteran James To who led in the polls to vote for another Democrat candidate Roy Kwong who was fighting for the last seat against Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) candidate Holden Chow.[57] The Democratic Party invited former Chief Secretary Anson Chan to back Kwong, who also endorsed Civic Party's Sumly Chan who ran in the same constituency.[58]

In late August, the pro-Beijing parties also began to campaign for each other. DAB District Council (Second) candidate Holden Chow campaigned for New People's Party (NPP) New Territories East candidate Eunice Yung who was behind in the opinion polls, in exchange for the 24 NPP New Territories district councillors to campaign for Chow. Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) District Council (Second) candidate Wong Kwok-hing also campaigned with Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) Kowloon West candidate Priscilla Leung, the only constituency where the FTU did not field their candidate.[59]

Issues and election forums

Issues including Hong Kong independence, filibustering, universal retirement protection scheme, standard working hours and Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's administration and re-election took central stage at the election forums. Pro-Beijing candidates questioned pan-democratic parties' stance on Hong Kong independence, while localist Kowloon East Community's Chan Chak-to declared his support for independence at the TVB Kowloon East electoral forum despite six pro-independence candidates had been disqualified. Localist candidates exchanged criticisms with the pan-democrats as the pan-democratic candidates dismissed localists' pro-independence call as empty talk.[60]

The pro-Beijing candidates also accused the pan-democrats of their filibustering and obstructionism in the Legislative Council, while pan-democratic candidates attacked the pro-Beijing candidates did not push for a more progressive universal retirement protection scheme and standard working hours policies. The pan-democrats also criticised the pro-Beijing camp being allies of the Leung Chun-ying government and opposed to use Powers and Privileges Ordinance to investigate into Leung's receipt of HK$50 million from UGL Limited and resignations of ICAC heads.

Ken Chow's dropout

On 25 August, Liberal Party’s Ken Chow Wing-kan who ran for New Territories West announced he would stop his electioneering at the Cable TV election forum for fear of "people close to him paying a heavy price". He earlier revealed that he was approached by a middleman to quit the race for a hefty sum of money.[61] Chow passed a voice clip to the media before the election forum, in which a man claimed he would bring 20 to 30 Ho supporters to "pursue" Chow before and after the forum so that he would "lose mood" for the debate. The man in the clip also said the supporters should wear another candidate Lawyer Junius Ho’s vests during the forum.[62] Ho denied having any plans to intimidate Chow and claimed he had rejected one of his supporters' proposal to “pursue” Chow.[63]

Pan-democratic candidates' dropouts

On 2 September less than 48 hours before the election day and after the release of the large-scale opinion poll conducted by University of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme (HKUPOP) and sponsored by pro-democracy group Power for Democracy, five pro-democrat candidates, independents Paul Zimmerman and Chui Chi-kin in Hong Kong Island, Labour Party's Suzanne Wu in Kowloon East and Civic Party's Sumly Chan and Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood's (ADPL) Kalvin Ho Kai-ming in District Council (Second), suspended their campaigns in the hope of deflecting support to fellow pan-democrats who were seen as standing a better chance.[64] Clarice Cheung Wai-ching, a non-aligned independent also abandoned her campaign in New Territories West and called her supporters to vote for pan-democratic candidates. On 3 September, the third pro-democratic District Council (Second) candidate Kwan Wing-yip also aborted his campaign but marked it as "a dark day for democracy".[65]

Opinion polling

For a more comprehensive list, see Opinion polling for the Hong Kong legislative election, 2016.
5

The reliability of the rolling poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme (HKUPOP) was widely questioned. The sample size of the poll, fewer than 300 respondents in each of the five geographical constituencies each day, was criticised as being too small. Additionally, pollsters only mentioned the first candidate on the list during interviews which could have made a difference in the results, as many veterans, including Democrats Sin Chung-kai, Albert Ho and Emily Lau, Liberal James Tien, Civic Party's Alan Leong, and People Power Albert Chan, stood in the second place behind the new faces on their party lists while their lists continued to trail behind in the polls.[57] After the complaints, the HKUPOP decided to mention two candidates on the candidate list to respondents from 22 August night onwards.[66]

Results

Before election:

↓
27 43
Anti-establishment Pro-establishment

Change in composition:

↓
30 40
Anti-establishment Pro-establishment

Template:Hong Kong legislative election, 2016

Votes summary

Popular vote
DAB
 
 16.58%
Civic
 
 9.59%
Democratic
 
 9.22%
FTU
 
 7.83%
NPP
 
 7.72%
PP–LSD
 
 7.20%
CP–PPI–HKRO
 
 7.11%
Labour
 
 4.70%
ALLinHK
 
 3.75%
Demosisto
 
 2.34%
BPA
 
 2.29%
DG
 
 1.76%
ADPL
 
 1.53%
Neo Democrats
 
 1.46%
Liberal
 
 0.99%
NWSC
 
 0.97%
PD
 
 0.84%
Third Side
 
 0.62%
Independent
 
 13.40%

Seats summary

Popular vote
DAB
 
 17.14%
Democratic
 
 10.00%
BPA
 
 10.00%
Civic
 
 8.57%
FTU
 
 7.14%
Liberal
 
 5.71%
NPP
 
 4.29%
PP–LSD
 
 2.86%
ALLinHK
 
 2.86%
PC
 
 2.86%
CP–PPI–HKRO
 
 1.43%
Labour
 
 1.43%
Demosisto
 
 1.43%
DG
 
 1.43%
PTU
 
 1.43%
FLU
 
 1.43%
New Forum
 
 1.43%
Independent
 
 17.14%

Incumbents defeated

Fifteen incumbents lost re-election.

Candidate lists and results

The nominations received and validated by the Electoral Affairs Commission listed as following:[67] Template:Hong Kong legislative election, 2016 comprehensive

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c The party leaders stood as second candidates on their party list.

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