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===Project Storm===
===Project Storm===
In April 2017, [[Occupy Central with Love and Peace|Occupy Central]] co-founder [[Benny Tai]] proposed the "Project Storm" to win the majority of the [[District Councils of Hong Kong|District Council]] seats for the pro-democrats in the coming election. He stated that by winning a majority of the some 400 District Council seats, pro-democrats could gain an additional 117 seats of the District Council subsectors on the 1,200-member [[Election Committee]] which elects the [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Chief Executive]]. Tai believed that by making it harder for Beijing to manipulate in the Chief Executive election, it would compel Beijing to restart the stalled political reform after its [[2014 Hong Kong electoral reform|restrictive proposal]] was voted down in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hong Kong Occupy co-founder Benny Tai unveils ‘Project Storm’ to win more district council seats for pan-democrats|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2091875/hong-kong-occupy-co-founder-benny-tai-unveils-project-storm|date=30 April 2017|newspaper=South China Morning Post}}</ref>
In April 2017, [[Occupy Central with Love and Peace|Occupy Central]] co-founder [[Benny Tai]] proposed the "Project Storm" to win the majority of the [[District Councils of Hong Kong|District Council]] seats for the pro-democrats in the coming election. He stated that by winning a majority of the some 400 District Council seats, pro-democrats could gain an additional 117 seats of the District Council subsectors on the 1,200-member [[Election Committee]] which elects the [[Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Chief Executive]]. Tai believed that by making it harder for Beijing to manipulate in the Chief Executive election, it would compel Beijing to restart the stalled political reform after its [[2014 Hong Kong electoral reform|restrictive proposal]] was voted down in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hong Kong Occupy co-founder Benny Tai unveils ‘Project Storm’ to win more district council seats for pan-democrats|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2091875/hong-kong-occupy-co-founder-benny-tai-unveils-project-storm|date=30 April 2017|newspaper=South China Morning Post}}</ref>

===Extradition bill controversy===
{{main|2019 Hong Kong extradition bill|2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests}}
In mid 2019, [[Carrie Lam as Chief Executive of Hong Kong|Carrie Lam administration]] pushed forward the [[Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019]] to establish a mechanism for transfers of fugitives not only for Taiwan, Mainland China and Macau, which are not covered in the existing laws for a homicide case in Taiwan.<ref>{{Cite news |url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-47810723 |title= Fears over Hong Kong-China extradition plans |publisher= BBC |date= 8 April 2019 }}</ref> The proposed bill raised grave concerns from various sectors of the society including lawyers, journalists, businessmen, as well as foreign governments, fearing the heightened risk that Hong Kong citizens and foreign nationals passing through the city could be sent for trial to Mainland China without the safeguards of the local courts, where courts are under Chinese political control.<ref>{{cite news|title=Is HK tilting from a semi-democracy to a semi-dictatorship?|url=http://www.ejinsight.com/20190523-is-hk-tilting-from-a-semi-democracy-to-a-semi-dictatorship/|work=Ejinsight|date=23 May 2019}}</ref>

In June, rounds of demonstrations were attended by record breaking of hundreds of thousands to nearly two millions people forced the government to eventually suspend the bill. The pro-Beijing parties who were among the strongest advocates of the bill worried their supports of the controversial bill as well as the abrupt U-turn would cost them the votes in the upcoming District Council elections and [[2020 Hong Kong legislative election|next year's Legislative Council election]], repeating their davastating defeat in the [[2003 Hong Kong local elections|2003 District Council elections]] following the highly controversial [[National Security (Legislative Provisions) Bill 2003|national security legislation]].<ref>{{cite news|title=
Suspension of Hong Kong extradition bill is embarrassing to pro-establishment allies and could cost them at election time, camp insiders reveal|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3014674/suspension-hong-kong-extradition-bill-embarrassing-pro|date=16 June 2019|newspaper=South China Morning Post}}</ref>


==Current standings of the District Councils==
==Current standings of the District Councils==

Revision as of 06:23, 19 June 2019

2019 Hong Kong local elections
← 2015 24 November 2019 2023 →
All Elected Constituencies
452 (of the 479) seats in all 18 Districts Councils
  Wu Chi-wai Ng Chau-pei
Leader Starry Lee Wu Chi-wai Ng Chau-pei
Party DAB Democratic FTU
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 119 seats, 21.39% 43 seats, 13.56% 27 seats, 6.11%
Current seats 116 (elected seats) 37 27
 
Leader Lo Wai-kwok Regina Ip Sze Tak-loy
Party BPA NPP ADPL
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Pro-democracy
Last election 10 seats, 1.90% 26 seats, 5.24% 18 seats, 3.82%
Current seats 18 (elected seats) 16 12
 
Leader Yam Kai-bong
and others 		Alvin Yeung Felix Chung
Party Neo Democrats Civic Liberal
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 15 seats, 2.92% 10 seats, 3.62% 9 seats, 1.74%
Current seats 12 12 8

The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections are scheduled to be held on 24 November 2019 for the sixth District Councils of Hong Kong.[1] Elections are to be held to all 18 District Councils with returning 452 members from all directly elected constituencies, out of the total 479 seats.

Boundary changes

In July 2017, the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC) proposed to increase 21 elected seats in 10 District Councils after a review on the number of elected seats for each District Council having regard to the population forecast:[1]

  1. 1 new seat for each Kowloon City, Yau Tsim Mong and Tsuen Wan District Councils;
  2. 2 new seats for each Sham Shui Po, Kwai Tsing, Tuen Mun and Sai Kung District Councils;
  3. 3 new seats for each Kwun Tong and Sha Tin District Councils; and
  4. 4 new seats for the Yuen Long District Council.[1]

According to the recommendations, the total number of elected seats for the 2019 elections will be increased by 21 from 431 to 452.

Gerrymandering concerns

Some pro-democracy District Councillors accused the EAC of gerrymandering in which the borders of their constituencies were altered "unreasonably" which might affect their odds should they seek another term. EAC chairman Barnabas Fung claimed that the proposal was purely the result of an objective calculation. "Factors with political implications would definitely not be taken into consideration," Fung said.[2]

Background

Project Storm

In April 2017, Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai proposed the "Project Storm" to win the majority of the District Council seats for the pro-democrats in the coming election. He stated that by winning a majority of the some 400 District Council seats, pro-democrats could gain an additional 117 seats of the District Council subsectors on the 1,200-member Election Committee which elects the Chief Executive. Tai believed that by making it harder for Beijing to manipulate in the Chief Executive election, it would compel Beijing to restart the stalled political reform after its restrictive proposal was voted down in 2015.[3]

Extradition bill controversy

Main articles: 2019 Hong Kong extradition bill and 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests

In mid 2019, Carrie Lam administration pushed forward the Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019 to establish a mechanism for transfers of fugitives not only for Taiwan, Mainland China and Macau, which are not covered in the existing laws for a homicide case in Taiwan.[4] The proposed bill raised grave concerns from various sectors of the society including lawyers, journalists, businessmen, as well as foreign governments, fearing the heightened risk that Hong Kong citizens and foreign nationals passing through the city could be sent for trial to Mainland China without the safeguards of the local courts, where courts are under Chinese political control.[5]

In June, rounds of demonstrations were attended by record breaking of hundreds of thousands to nearly two millions people forced the government to eventually suspend the bill. The pro-Beijing parties who were among the strongest advocates of the bill worried their supports of the controversial bill as well as the abrupt U-turn would cost them the votes in the upcoming District Council elections and next year's Legislative Council election, repeating their davastating defeat in the 2003 District Council elections following the highly controversial national security legislation.[6]

Current standings of the District Councils

By political camp

Council Current
control 		Largest
party
Central & Western Pro-Beijing Tied
Wan Chai Pro-Beijing

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DAB
Eastern Pro-Beijing

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DAB
Southern Pro-Beijing

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Democratic
Yau Tsim Mong Pro-Beijing

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DAB
Sham Shui Po NOC

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #faf400;" data-sort-value="HKADPL" |

ADPL
Kowloon City Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" |

DAB
Wong Tai Sin Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" |

DAB
Kwun Tong Pro-Beijing

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DAB
Tsuen Wan Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" |

DAB
Tuen Mun Pro-Beijing

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DAB
Yuen Long Pro-Beijing

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DAB
North Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" |

DAB
Tai Po Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" |

DAB
Sai Kung Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1861AC;" data-sort-value="DABHK" |

DAB
Sha Tin Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #1C8BCD;" data-sort-value="New People's Party–Civil Force" |

NPP/CF
Kwai Tsing Pro-Beijing

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DAB
Islands Pro-Beijing

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DAB

By political party

As of 2 January 2020:

Council/
Party 		CW WC E S YTM SSP KC WTS KT TW TM YL N TP SK ST KWT I TOTAL
Democratic 7 4 7 4 2 10 6 9 3 7 7 5 6 12 1 90
Civic 5 1 1 4 2 4 3 7 3 2 32
ND 2 3 4 9 1 19
ADPL 11 3 5 19
CST 8 8
TCHD 1 2 4 7
Labour 2 1 2 1 1 7
CGPLTKO 6 6
CM 5 5
CA 4 1 5
TMCN 4 4
NWSC 1 3 4
TSWC 4 4
TPDA 3 3
VSA 2 1 3
Civ Passion 1 1 2
DA 2 2
DTW 2 2
TKOP 2 2
LSD 1 1 2
SKC 2 2
TKOS 2 2
PP 1 1
EHK 1 1
TYP 1 1
LMCG 1 1
CSWWF 1 1
CKWEF 1 1
TWCN 1 1
KEC 1 1
SK 1 1
CAP 1 1
TSWLPU 1 1
Ind & others 5 8 19 7 7 4 4 13 13 3 6 13 7 7 3 16 8 4 147
Pro-democrats 14 9 32 15 17 22 15 25 28 16 28 33 15 19 26 40 27 7 388
DAB 1 1 2 4 6 1 1 1 3 1 21
FTU 1 1 1 1 1 5
Liberal 1 1 1 1 1 5
BPA 3 1 1 5
FPHE 2 1 3
Roundtable 1 1 2
Ind & others 3 1 2 2 3 2 12 5 2 5 1 10 48
Pro-Beijing 1 4 3 2 3 2 10 0 12 4 4 12 7 2 5 2 5 11 89
Others 1 1 2
Vacant
Councillors 15 13 35 17 20 25 25 25 40 21 32 45 22 21 31 42 32 18 479

List of target seats

DAB targets Votes required Swing required Democratic targets Votes required Swing required
1 Chi Choi (Democratic) 5 0.06% Wah Fu South (Ind) 3 0.05%
2 Hing Fong (Democratic) 72 0.89% Shek Yam (DAB) 54 0.47%
3 Tsui Wan (Ind) 57 1.28% Centre Street (Ind) 33 0.50%
4 Shun Tin (Democratic) 100 1.36% Ting On (Ind) 62 0.73%
5 Kam To (Ind) 137 1.87% Belcher (Ind) 69 0.73%
6 Tsuen Wan Centre (Democratic) 161 2.04% Chung Ting (DAB) 71 0.96%
NPP targets Votes required Swing required ADPL targets Votes required Swing required
1 Tak Koo Shing East (Ind) 87 0.83% Ma Tau Wai (DAB) 45 0.42%
2 Kornhill (Civic) 92 0.92% Lai Kok (DAB/FTU) 99 0.96%
FTU targets Votes required Swing required Civic targets Votes required Swing required
1 Ma Hang Chung (Democratic) 45 0.66% Tung Chung North (NPP) 32 0.82%
Pro-Beijing independent targets Votes required Swing required
1 Sai Kung North (BPA) 20 0.49%
2 Whampoa West (Ind) 39 0.47%
3 Mid Levels East (Democratic) 55 0.92%

References

  1. ^ a b c "Review of the Number of Elected Seats for the Sixth-Term District Councils" (PDF). Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
  2. ^ "Election chiefs bring in 21 new Hong Kong district council seats, sparking gerrymandering concerns". South China Morning Post. 21 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Hong Kong Occupy co-founder Benny Tai unveils 'Project Storm' to win more district council seats for pan-democrats". South China Morning Post. 30 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Fears over Hong Kong-China extradition plans". BBC. 8 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Is HK tilting from a semi-democracy to a semi-dictatorship?". Ejinsight. 23 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Suspension of Hong Kong extradition bill is embarrassing to pro-establishment allies and could cost them at election time, camp insiders reveal". South China Morning Post. 16 June 2019.
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