2008 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories East

These are the New Territories East results of the 2008 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 7 September 2008 and all 7 seats in New Territories East where consisted of North District, Tai Po District, Sai Kung District and Sha Tin District were contested. The pro-democracy camp succeeded in holding five seats out of seven seats, with James Tien lost his seat to Wong Sing-chi of the Democratic Party.

2008 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories East
7 September 2008 (2008-09-07)
All 7 New Territories East seats to the Legislative Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Lau Kong-wah Wong Sing-chi & Andrew Cheng Leung Kwok-hung
Party DAB Democratic LSD
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Pan-democracy
Last election 2 seats, 22.1% 1 seat, 16.8% 1 seat, 14.1%
Seats before 2 1 1
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change 1
Popular vote 102,434 86,105 44,763
Percentage 28.4% 23.8% 12.4%
Swing 6.3% 7.0% 1.7%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Ronny Tong Emily Lau James Tien
Party Civic Frontier Liberal
Alliance Pan-democracy Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 1 seat, 5.6% 1 seat, 5.6% 1 seat, 15.9%
Seats before 1 1 1
Seats won 1 1 0
Seat change 1
Popular vote 39,957 33,205 28,875
Percentage 11.1% 9.2% 8.0%
Swing 5.5% 3.6% 7.9%
Party with most votes in each District Council Constituency.

Overall results

Before election:

↓
4 3
Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing

Change in composition:

↓
5 2
Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing
Party Seats Seats
change		 Contesting
list(s)		 Votes % %
change
Democratic 2 +1 2 86,105 23.8 +7.0
LSD 1 0 1 44,763 12.4 −1.7
Civic 1 0 1 39,957 11.1 +5.5
Frontier 1 0 1 33,205 9.2 +3.6
Pro-democracy camp 5 +1 5 204,030 56.5 –2.2
DAB 2 0 1 102,434 28.4 +6.3
Liberal 0 –1 1 28,875 8.0 −7.9
Independent 0 0 3 25,591 7.1 N/A
Pro-Beijing camp 3 –1 5 156,900 44.7 +3.4
Turnout: 360,930 44.3

Candidates list
Legislative Election 2008: New Territories East[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
DAB Lau Kong-wah, Chan Hak-kan
Mok Kam-kwai, Wong Pik-kiu, Chan Kwok-kai, Lau Kwok-fan, Calvin Lin Chor-keung		 102,434 28.4
(14.29+14.09)		 +6.26
LSD Leung Kwok-hung 44,763 12.4 −1.74
Democratic Wong Sing-chi
Mok Siu-lun		 44,174 12.2 N/A
Democratic Andrew Cheng Kar-foo
Yam Kai-bong, Shirley Ho Suk-ping, Leung Li, Kwan Wing-yip, Michael Yung Ming-chau, Frankie Lam Siu-chung		 41,931 11.6 N/A
Civic Ronny Tong Ka-wah
Tsang Kwok-fung, Tsang Kin-chiu		 39,957 11.1 N/A
Frontier Emily Lau Wai-hing
Ricky Or Yiu-lam		 33,205 9.2 N/A
Liberal James Tien Pei-chun, Terry Kan Wing-fai, Christine Fong Kwok-shan 28,875 8.0 −7.91
Independent Scarlett Pong Oi-lan 20,455 5.7 N/A
Nonpartisan Alvin Lee Chi-wing 4,007 1.1 N/A
Party for Civil Rights and Livelihood Siu See-kong, David Yung Chiu-wing 1,129 0.3 N/A
Total valid votes 360,930 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,029
Turnout 362,959 44.25 –12.17
Registered electors 820,205

See also

References
  1. "2008 Legislative Election". Electoral Affairs Commission. 8 September 2008. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
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