Hong Kong local elections, 2007

18 November 2007

All Elected Constituencies 405 (of the 534) seats in all 18 Districts Councils

Turnout	38.83%
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tam Yiu-chung	Albert Ho	Lau Kong-wah
Party	DAB	Democratic	Civil Force
Alliance	Pro-Beijing	Pro-democracy	Pro-Beijing
Last election	62 seats, 22.94%	95 seats, 21.27%	17 seats, 2.45%
Seats won	115	59	18
Seat change	38	14	1
Popular vote	292,916	175,054	30,880
Percentage	25.73%	15.38%	2.71%
Swing	2.79pp	5.90pp	0.26pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Frederick Fung	James Tien	Audrey Eu
Party	ADPL	Liberal	Civic
Alliance	Pro-democracy	Pro-Beijing	Pro-democracy
Last election	25 seats, 5.07%	14 seats, 2.77%	new party
Seats won	17	14	8
Seat change	8	4	1
Popular vote	52,386	50,026	48,837
Percentage	4.60%	4.39%	4.29%
Swing	0.46pp	1.63pp	N/A

Map of the winning party by constituency

The 2007 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 18 November 2007. Elections were held to all 18 districts of Hong Kong, returned 405 members from directly elected constituencies out of total 534 councils member. The pan-democrats suffered a devastating loss in the election.

General outcome

**Summary of the 18 November 2007 District Councils of Hong Kong election results**
Political Affiliation			Popular vote	%	% +/−	Standing	Elected	+/−
		Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong	292,916	25.73	+2.79	178	115	+38
		Liberal Party	50,026	4.39	+1.63	55	14	+4
		Civil Force	30,880	2.71	+0.27	20	18	+1
		Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions	4,208	0.37	+0.11	3	1	+1
		Tseung Kwan O Residents' Association	1,922	0.17	-	1	1	-
		Tin Shui Wai Women Association	1,457	0.13	-	1	1	-
		Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions	1,339	0.12	+0.12	1	1	0
		New Territories General Chamber of Commerce	818	0.07	-	1	0	-
		New Century Forum	543	0.05	-0.03	1	0	0
		Hong Kong Civic Association	390	0.03	-	5	0	-
		Independents	226,645	19.91	-	161	118	-
Total for pro-Beijing camp			614,621	53.98	+7.38	430	273	-
		Democratic Party	175,054	15.38	-5.90	110	59	-14
		Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood	52,386	4.60	-0.46	37	17	-8
		Civic Party	48,837	4.29	-	41	8	+1
		League of Social Democrats	28,601	2.51	-	29	6	-6
		Frontier	18,203	1.60	-0.81	15	3	-3
		Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre	12,565	1.10	-0.24	5	4	0
		Yuen Long Tin Shui Wai Democratic Alliance	9,530	0.84	+0.04	11	1	-2
		Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions	2,273	0.20	-0.18	2	0	-2
		Civic Act-up	991	0.09	-0.40	2	0	-2
		Individuals	60,510	5.31	-	44	10	-
	Total for Democratic Coalition for DC Election		409,573	35.97	-	296	108	-
		Independent democrats and others	36,208	3.18	-	39	19	-
Total for pan-democracy camp			445,781	39.15	-5.51	335	127	-
Independent and others			78,133	6.86	-2.21	142	5	-
Total (turnout 38.83%)			1,138,358	100.0	-	907	405	+5

Note 1: The total seats of the District Councils are 534 including 27 ex-officio members (Rural Committee Chairmen in the New Territories), and 102 members appointed members by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
Note 2: Candidates ran under both DAB and FTU banners were all counted as DAB in this chart.

Results by district

Council	Previous control		Camp control		DAB	DP	CF	ADPL	Lib	Civ	Others
Central and Western	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	3	6			1	1	4
Wan Chai	No Overall Control	Civic Act-up	Pro-Beijing	DAB	2						9
Eastern	Pro-Beijing	DAB	Pro-Beijing	DAB	14	3			2	2	16
Southern	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	1	3			1		12
Yau Tsim Mong	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	DAB	7	1					8
Sham Shui Po	Pro-democracy	ADPL	No Overall Control	ADPL	3	2		10			6
Kowloon City	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	DAB	6	2		3	2	1	8
Wong Tai Sin	Pro-Beijing	DAB	Pro-Beijing	DAB	8	3		2	1		11
Kwun Tong	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	DAB	9	3					22
Tsuen Wan	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	DAB	3	3			1	2	8
Tuen Mun	Pro-Beijing	DAB	Pro-Beijing	DAB	11	7		2	1		18
Yuen Long	Pro-Beijing	DAB	Pro-Beijing	DAB	7	2			3		16
North	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	DAB	9	4					3
Tai Po	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	DAB	7	4					8
Sai Kung	Pro-Beijing	DAB	Pro-Beijing	DAB	9	4	3				7
Sha Tin	Pro-Beijing	Civil Force	Pro-Beijing	Civil Force	8	3	15		1		9
Kwai Tsing	Pro-democracy	Democratic	Pro-Beijing	Democratic	5	9			1		13
Islands	Pro-Beijing	DAB	Pro-Beijing	DAB	4					2	4

Vote summary

Votes, of total, by camp

Pro-Beijing (53.98%)

Pan-democrats (39.15%)

Other (6.87%)

Seats, of total, by camp

Pro-Beijing (67.41%)

Pan-democrats (31.36%)

Other (1.23%)

Popular vote

DAB			25.73%
Democratic			15.78%
ADPL			4.60%
Liberal			4.39%
Civic			4.29%
Civil Force			2.71%
LSD			2.51%
Frontier			1.60%
NCF			1.29%
NWSC			1.10%
Others			36.00%

Seat summary

Seats

DAB			28.40%
Democratic			14.57%
Civil Force			4.44%
ADPL			4.20%
Liberal			3.46%
Civic			1.98%
LSD			1.48%
NCF			1.48%
NWSC			0.99%
Frontier			0.74%
Others			39.26%

Aftermath

In December 2007, Donald Tsang named 27 government-appointed Council members.^[1]

thirteen members of the Liberal Party
eleven members of the DAB
three members from the Federation of Trade Unions

Tsang was criticised for not appointing a single member of the pan-democrats.^[1]

Footnotes

1 2 Frank Ching, "Tsang grooms his kind of political talent", Pg A12, South China Morning Post, 24 June 2008

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