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The '''2019 Hong Kong District Council elections''' were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 [[District Councils of Hong Kong]], the sixth term since the [[Handover of Hong Kong|handover]].<ref name="review">{{cite web|title=Review of the Number of Elected Seats for the Sixth-Term {{subst:lc:District}} Councils|url=http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/panels/ca/papers/ca20170717cb2-1848-1-e.pdf|publisher=Legislative Council of Hong Kong|access-date=4 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904205858/http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/panels/ca/papers/ca20170717cb2-1848-1-e.pdf|archive-date=4 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> 452 members from all directly elected constituencies were to be returned out of the total 479 seats.
The '''2019 Hong Kong District Council elections''' were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 [[District Councils of Hong Kong]], the sixth term since the [[Handover of Hong Kong|handover]].<ref name="review">{{cite web|title=Review of the Number of Elected Seats for the Sixth-Term {{subst:lc:District}} Councils|url=http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/panels/ca/papers/ca20170717cb2-1848-1-e.pdf|publisher=Legislative Council of Hong Kong|access-date=4 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904205858/http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr16-17/english/panels/ca/papers/ca20170717cb2-1848-1-e.pdf|archive-date=4 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> 452 members from all directly elected constituencies were to be returned out of the total 479 seats.


A historic turnout of more than 2.9&nbsp;million people, over 70 percent of the registered voters, took to the ballot box, as the election was seen as a referendum on the [[2019 Hong Kong protests|ongoing pro-democracy protest]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties sweeping aside pro-Beijing establishment in local elections, early results show|date=24 November 2019|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Record-turnout-in-Hong-Kong-election-seen-as-a-14858897.php|work=[[The Washington Post]]|author1=Shibani Mahtani|author2=Tiffany Liang|author3=Anna Kam|author4=Simon Denyer|accessdate=24 November 2019}}</ref>
A historic turnout of nearly 3 million people, over 70 percent of the registered voters, took to the ballot box, as the election was seen as a referendum on the [[2019 Hong Kong protests|ongoing pro-democracy protest]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties sweeping aside pro-Beijing establishment in local elections, early results show|date=24 November 2019|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Record-turnout-in-Hong-Kong-election-seen-as-a-14858897.php|work=[[The Washington Post]]|author1=Shibani Mahtani|author2=Tiffany Liang|author3=Anna Kam|author4=Simon Denyer|accessdate=24 November 2019}}</ref> The [[pro-democrats]] delivered the biggest landslide in history, seizing control of 17 of the 18 District Councils, tripling their seats from a little more than 100 to about 350. Prominent pro-Beijing candidates were also evicted from their seats, including [[Junius Ho]] who was a key anti-protest figure who was seen shaking hands with an alleged gang of thugs before the [[2019 Yuen Long attack|Yuen Long attack]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Hong Kong voters deliver landslide victory for pro-democracy campaigners|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/24/hong-kong-residents-turn-up-for-local-elections-in-record-numbers?fbclid=IwAR1CWqVLEE6LkIZ5KzKtJSZR8OEeCp3yXwVw_NY2I8NDxqc2jOzlvFIKmP8|work=The Guardian|date=24 November 2019}}</ref>


==Boundary changes==
==Boundary changes==

Revision as of 23:54, 24 November 2019

2019 Hong Kong local elections
← 2015 24 November 2019 2023 →
All Elected Constituencies
452 (of the 479) seats in all 18 Districts Councils
Turnout71.20% Increase24.19pp[1]
Votes counted
86.95%
as of 07:00 (GMT+8)
  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 117 37 26
 
Leader Lo Wai-kwok Regina Ip Yam Kai-bong
and others
Party BPA NPP Neo Democrats
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Pro-democracy
Last election 10 seats, 1.90% 26 seats, 5.24% 15 seats, 2.92%
Current seats 19 (elected seats) 13 13
 
Leader Sze Tak-loy Alvin Yeung Felix Chung
Party ADPL Civic Liberal
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 18 seats, 3.82% 10 seats, 3.62% 9 seats, 1.74%
Current seats 12 12 8
Map of the winning party by constituency

The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong, the sixth term since the handover.[2] 452 members from all directly elected constituencies were to be returned out of the total 479 seats.

A historic turnout of nearly 3 million people, over 70 percent of the registered voters, took to the ballot box, as the election was seen as a referendum on the ongoing pro-democracy protest.[3] The pro-democrats delivered the biggest landslide in history, seizing control of 17 of the 18 District Councils, tripling their seats from a little more than 100 to about 350. Prominent pro-Beijing candidates were also evicted from their seats, including Junius Ho who was a key anti-protest figure who was seen shaking hands with an alleged gang of thugs before the Yuen Long attack.[4]

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:[2]

  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.[2]

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.[5]

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.[6]

Power for Democracy, a group which coordinated different parties and groups in the pro-democracy camp worked with pro-democrats to find candidates for all 452 constituencies. The group also held rounds of non-binding primaries to select candidate if more than one pro-democrat was interested in running in the same constituency. However the camp still risked doubling up in about 30 constituencies.[7]

Anti-extradition bill protests

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

In mid 2019, the 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.[8] The proposed bill raised grave concerns from various sectors of the society including lawyers, journalists, businesses, as well as foreign governments, fearing the heightened risk that Hong Kong citizens and foreign nationals passing through the city, without the safeguards of the local courts, could be sent for trial to Mainland China, where courts are under Chinese political control.[9]

Starting from June, rounds of demonstrations were attended by hundreds of thousands people forced the government to eventually suspend the bill, followed by Lam's announcement of the withdrawal in September. The pro-Beijing parties who were among the strongest advocates of the bill worried their support of the controversial bill as well as the abrupt U-turn would cost them votes in the upcoming District Council elections and the next year's Legislative Council election, risking a repeat of their devastating defeat in the 2003 District Council elections following the highly controversial national security legislation.[10] Media reported that the government was looking into the possibility of cancelling polls in areas where serious protests are taking place, or even postponing the elections by invoking the Emergency Regulations Ordinance.[11][12] There had been vandalism on pro-Beijing parties' local offices during the protests, as well as physical attacks on at least four pro-democracy camp candidates, including the League of Social Democrats' Jimmy Sham, the convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, the organiser of the many massive demonstrations in the past four months, who was attacked by men with hammers.[7]

Registration drive

Registration drives are uncommon in Hong Kong, but campaigners have registered tens of thousands of new voters during mass protests against the controversial extradition bill, pouncing on an opportunity to bolster the democratic opposition's prospects in upcoming elections.[13] The total number of registered electors for the 2019 elections grew unprecedentedly with over 386,000 newly registered electors, an election cycle record since the handover of Hong Kong.[14] The number of registered electors between the ages of 18 and 35 alone has jumped more than 12% compared to last year.[15]

While the number of registered electors had been increasing steadily, large social movements and demonstrations have a tendency to spike registration.[16] In 2004, 303,885 people had registered after half a million people took to the streets to protest against a government-proposed national security law based on Article 23 of the Basic Law. In 2015, 262,633 people registered as voters after the Umbrella Revolution.[16]

According to the Registration and Electoral Office (REO) under the Electoral Affairs Commission (EAC), the number of registered electors in the 2019 final registers is 4,132,977, also a record high since the handover of Hong Kong.[17][14]

Nominations and disqualifications

An unprecedented number of 1,104 nomination forms were received by the Returning Officers in the two-week nomination period from 4 to 17 October, of which six nominees withdrew their candidatures before the end of the nomination period.[18] It is the first time in history all 452 District Council seats faced contests, compared to the last elections in 2015 where 68 seats went uncontested.[19]

At least four candidates, including Tommy Cheung Sau-yin, Mo Kai-hong, Liu Qing of the Democratic Party and Billy Chan Shiu-yeung of the Community Sha Tin, received letters from the Returning Officers to answer what the candidates meant by it when they posted "Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times", a popular slogan in the anti-extradition protests on their social media accounts.[12] Two other hopefuls also received letters asking for their stance on Hong Kong independence, including secretary-general of Demosistō Joshua Wong who plans to run for South Horizons West who was asked if he was running on behalf of his party Demosistō and if he supported the notion of "self-determination" for Hong Kong. Agnes Chow, a member of Demosistō was earlier barred from running in the March 2018 Legislative Council by-election on the grounds that Demosistō advocated "self-determination".[12] Henry Wong Pak-yu who aimed for a seat in Tin Heng was also questioned for his previous public pro-independence statement. Both Wongs denied they supported Hong Kong independence. Political scientist Ma Ngok warned that any disqualification would only fuel the ongoing political crisis.[12] In light of the risk of being disqualified, Joshua Wong and at least 12 other pro-democracy candidates including former student leader Lester Shum and pro-democracy legislator Eddie Chu arranged a backup candidate to stand in the same constituency in the last minutes before the nomination period ended as their candidatures had not been confirmed by the Returning Officers. Chu was previously disqualified from running in the January rural representative election by Returning Officer Enoch Yuen Ka-lok, citing his stance of supporting "self-determination".[20]

More than ten days after the nomination period, acting Returning Officer Laura Liang Aron who replaced Dorothy Ma Chau Pui-fun who took indefinite sick leave barred Joshua Wong from running, making Wong the only pro-democrat being disqualified due to his political stance in the election. Aron gave a six-page ruling noting that Wong dropped his advocacy of the option of independence as "a compromise, instead of a genuine intention" as Wong referred President Xi Jinping's remarks on separatism as "stern threat" a reason for him and Demosistō to give up the advocacy of independence. Wong said the Returning Officer's decision showed that the central government was manipulating the election, which was expected to be a key test of public sentiment about the protest movement. Kelvin Lam Ho-por, who stood in the same constituency, was widely believed to be Joshua Wong's substitute in case Wong was barred from running.[21][22]

Pre-election events

2 November election rally

See also: List of November 2019 Hong Kong protests

More than a hundred pro-democracy candidates launched an election rally at Victoria Park on 2 November, testing the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance which allowed for election meetings to be held in public after the police rejected the organisers' initial application to hold a demonstration.[23] Soon after the assembly started, the police quickly declared the rally an unauthorised assembly and dispersed attendances using tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons. At least three pro-democracy election candidates, Osman Cheng Chung-hang, Richard Chan Chun-chit and Man Nim-chi, were seen being taken away by the police. During the operation, officers pepper-sprayed Chan to subdue him, prompting angry calls from rally-goers for his release.[24] The protests continued with the clashes between the police and protesters, where protesters responded to the police crackdown by throwing petroleum bombs, vandalising MTR stations and shops seen as sympathetic to the Beijing government, spraying graffiti and building barricades on streets, capping the 21st week of anti-government demonstrations.[25]

Physical attacks on candidates

Besides convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front Jimmy Sham who was also running in Lek Yuen was attacked, many District Council candidates including Labour Party's Stanley Ho Wai-hong running for Pak Sha Wan was attacked by men dressed in white and welding rods in late September. Pro-democracy candidates Jocelyn Chau Hui-yan and Jannelle Rosalynne Leung who were running in City Garden and Yuet Wah respectively were also attacked.[26]

On 3 November, during a protest at Cityplaza, Tai Koo Shing, Democratic Party's Andrew Chiu of his own constituency Tai Koo Shing West was attacked by a pro-Beijing, Mandarin-speaking, knife-wielding man, when he tried to stop a fight after the attacker assaulted several people. His left ear was partially bitten off by the attacker.[27]

On 6 November, pro-Beijing Legislative Councillor Junius Ho, who was previously filmed praising a group of white-clad men outside Yuen Long station on 21 July night of a mob attack against civilians, was attacked by a man with a knife at around 8:44 am in his own constituency when he was campaigning for re-election in his Lok Tsui seat in Tuen Mun District Council. The attacker shouted abuse at Ho, accusing him of being involved in 21 July attack. Ho received an injury to his chest and was then hospitalised.[28] Ho's assistant and the attacker were also injured before the attacker was arrested.[26]

Results

For results by constituency, see Results breakdown of the 2019 Hong Kong local elections.

After nearly six months of protests, disruption and violence, the elections to the district councils of Hong Kong were held during the first weekend without violence. As the district councils are the only body in Hong Kong chosen by full universal suffrage, the election was widely regarded to be a proxy referendum for the governance of the city. At the close of polls at 10.30pm, nearly 3 million of the 4.13 million registered electors had voted, including many first-time voters, representing a turnout 71%. Many voters reportedly waited in line more than an hour before they could vote. The result, a pro-democratic landslide, put paid to the government’s oft-used argument that it had the support of a “silent majority”.[29]

Template:Hong Kong district councils election, 2019

Results by district

Council Previous
camp control 		Previous
party 		Current
camp control 		Largest
party 		Pro-dem Pro-Beijing Ex officio Composition Details
Central & Western Pro-Beijing Tied Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 14 1 —
Wan Chai Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy Tied 9 4 —
Eastern Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy Tied 15 2 —
Southern Pro-Beijing

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 15 2 —
Yau Tsim Mong Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #BDDC06;" data-sort-value="Community March" |

Community March —
Sham Shui Po NOC

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

ADPL Pro-democracy

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 Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 14 9 —
Wong Tai Sin Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 25 0 —
Kwun Tong Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic —
Tsuen Wan Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 2
Tuen Mun Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 28 3 1
Yuen Long Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 6
North Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 4
Tai Po Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy Tied 19 0 2
Sai Kung Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #F9B924;" data-sort-value="Neo Democrats" |

Neo Democrats 2
Sha Tin Pro-Beijing

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

NPP/CF Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #00B2BD;" data-sort-value="Community Sha Tin" |

Community Sha Tin 1
Kwai Tsing Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-democracy

style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #5FB04A;" data-sort-value="DPHK" |

Democratic 1
Islands Pro-Beijing

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

DAB Pro-Beijing Tied 8


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