The 2015 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 22 November 2015. Elections were held to all 18 District Councils with returning 431 members from directly elected constituencies after all appointed seats had been abolished. A record-breaking 1.4 million voters, or 47 per cent of the registered voters, went to cast their votes. The

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retained its control of all 18 councils with the Beijing-loyalist party

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(DAB) maintained the largest party far ahead of other parties. The

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failed to seize control of the

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, a traditional stronghold of the pan-democrats. Both sides lost their heavyweight incumbent Legislative Councillors. Albert Ho of the Democratic Party and Frederick Fung of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) who were both elected through

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constituency lost their seats while

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's Kenneth Chan failed to take a seat in the Southern District. DAB's incumbent legislators Christopher Chung and Elizabeth Quat both lost their seats to pro-democracy newcomers in which Chung lost his long hold seat to a relatively unknown "umbrella soldier" Chui Chi-kin. Activists in the 2014 Occupy protests, who are dubbed the "umbrella soldiers", had better-than-expected results with eight of them winning a seat by beating some incumbents. The pan-democrat Neo Democrats became the best performers in the election, winning 15 out of their 16 bids and doubled their seats from 7 to 15 seats.

Boundary changes

As proposed in the Democratic Party's modified electoral reform package passed in 2010, all appointed seats were abolished in this election. After a review on the number of elected seats for each District Council having regard to the population forecast in mid-2015, the

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proposed to increase 19 elected seats in 9 District Councils: # 1 new seat for in each

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and

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District Councils; # 2 new seats for each

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and

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District Councils; # 3 new seats for the

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; and # 4 new seats for the Yuen Long District Council. The total number of elected seats for the 2015 elections was increased by 19 from 412 to 431. Additionally, the boundaries of the Eastern and

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Districts were adjusted by transferring the Tin Hau and Victoria Park district council constituency areas from the Eastern District to the Wan Chai District.

Pre-election events

Umbrella movement

The

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sparked a fierce tussle between the

and

as the democrats hailed a "civic awakening" while the pro-Beijing camp mobilised supporters to condemn the 79-day street blockade as an affront to the rule of law. The November District Council election was to be seen as the first big electoral test of the post-Occupy era. Both camps said events to come would have a bigger effect on voters, while the extent to which a political awakening among the city's youth would lead them to turn out to vote remains unclear. The pan-democrats encouraged young people who participated in the Occupy movement to register and vote in the district council poll.

Lead-in-water scandal

The lead-in-water scandal began in June 2015 when the Democratic Party legislator, Helena Wong Pik-wan announced that testing of drinking water at

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revealed lead contamination. The Hong Kong Housing Authority subsequently confirmed that the levels of lead exceeded the standard established by the

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. Since the initial discovery at Kai Tak, lead contamination of drinking water has been found at numerous other housing estates, schools, and public buildings across Hong Kong. The lead contamination scandal caused widespread concern among the public in which the Democratic Party made a major comeback by being the first to reveal the scandal while the pro-Beijing camp was told to downplay the issue.

HKU pro-vice-chancellor selection controversy

An alleged political interference behind the

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governing council's rejection of Johannes Chan's recommended appointment to the post of pro-vice-chancellor in charge of staffing and resources. Chan, dean of the

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sparked its climax in October 2015. The decision has received international condemnation, and is being viewed as part of a Beijing-backed curtailing of

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s that will damage Hong Kong's academic reputation.

Polling irregularities

Following the last election in 2011, pan-democrats have complained of irregularities in voter registration records, and a number of candidates who lost in marginal seats made allegations of electoral fraud to the police. The government was criticised for failing to address the issue back in 2006 after alleged instances where multiple voters had registered under a same address surfaced. Before the last day for voters to check and update their particulars in order to vote in November, and for the public to report suspicious cases, the pan-democratic parties lodged a flood of complaints to the Registration and Electoral Office on 24 August 2015 about the records of over 550 voters with suspicious or false residential addresses on the eve of the election, and warning they could be "the tip of the iceberg".

Catholic bishop's anti-gay pastoral letter

On 5 November 2015, the Catholic bishop of Hong Kong John Tong urged his flock to consider candidates' views on gay rights when voting in the district council elections in a pastoral letter, as certain social movements "are challenging and twisting" the city's core values on marriage and family. "In the upcoming district council election and future polls, I urge all believers … to consider candidates' and their parties' stance on family and marriage issues, as well as their position on" a law to ban discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, Tong wrote The pan-democratic parties - who have often found common cause with the Catholic Church on matters of democracy and human rights - criticised Tong's remarks. People Power legislator Raymond Chan Chi-chuen, who is openly gay, criticised Tong's message and said it reflected a backward view of social movements and possibly deviated from the Vatican's line. A spokesman for the Labour Party said Tong's view was "obviously different" from the remarks of

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, who in 2013 said: "If omosexualsaccept the Lord and have goodwill, who am I to judge them? They shouldn't be marginalised. The omosexualtendency is not the problem."

Contesting parties and candidates

Parties

In the

, the flagship party

(DAB) filled a total of 171 candidates in the contest, followed by the

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with a total of 51 candidates of which 3 of them were also DAB members. The two relatively new pro-Beijing parties, the middle-class-oriented New People's Party (NPP) and the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) developed their forces at district level since their creations in 2011 and 2012 respectively. The New People's Party got 4 of the 12 candidates elected in 2011 and at least eight incumbent councillors had since joined the party, while a merger with Civil Force, a local political group with strongholds in the New Territories East, brought the number up to 30. The NPP had a total of 42 contestants while the BPA had 16, slightly fewer than another pro-business party, the

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's 20 which four of the Liberal candidates failed to avoid direct competition with other pro-Beijing parties and would have to fight a fellow pro-Beijing candidate. The largest pro-democratic party Democratic Party filled 95 candidates, a sharp decline from the 2011 election's 132. The Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) came after the Democrats with 26 candidates, followed by the

's 25, Neo Democrats's 16, Labour Party's 12, People Power's 9, Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre's 6 and League of Social Democrats's 5. Many new pro-democracy groups formed by young people after the Occupy movement, including the Youngspiration, the Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power, which aimed at Wong Tai Sin District Council, the North of the Rings, which worked in

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and Fanling in North District, the Kowloon East Community which had its eyes on Kwun Tong District Council, and some other groups. More than 40 activists were running in the district council elections and some of them were with the "nativist" agenda. While most Umbrella candidates have joined a co-ordination mechanism run by pan-democratic parties to avoid clashes between allies, six of them refused to do so and are running against the Democratic Party in areas where the party has had a close fight with the pro-establishment camp in previous elections.

Candidates

A record-high 951 nominations were received for which six nominees withdrew their candidatures before the deadline. A total of 66 seats were uncontested, 10 fewer than in 2011, in which almost all of them went to the pro-Beijing camp. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong claimed 20 unclaimed seats, followed by New People's Party with seven and the

(FTU) with six seats, while the

took two. Two

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members Alice Mak Mei-kuen and Kwok Wai-keung of the FTU in Kwai Tsing's Wai Ying and Eastern District's Provident retained their seats without contest. The Legislative Council members elected through

constituency in 2012, the former chairman of the Democratic Party Albert Ho and former chairman of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) Frederick Fung faced fierce challenges in their

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's Lok Tsui and

's Lai Kok constituencies. Ho faced 5 rivals including former president of the Law Society of Hong Kong Junius Ho Kwan-yiu, radical localist group Civic Passion's Cheng Chung-tai and three other independent candidates. Fung faced his former party member Eric Wong Chung-ki and FTU's Chan Wing-yan. Ho and Fung eventually lost their District Council seat and will have to adopt a new constituency for LegCo elections. Another District Council (Second) legislator, FTU's Chan Yuen-han and District Council (First) legislator, DAB's Ip Kwok-him are stepping down from Wong Tai Sin's Lung Sheung and

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's Kwun Lung, meaning that they will retire from their constituencies in next year's Legislative Council election.

Results

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, 309,262 , , 21.39 , , 2.50 , , 171 , , 119 , , 0 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 88,292 , , 6.11 , , 3.01 , , 48 , , 27 , , 2 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , New People's Party– Civil Force , 75,793 , , 5.24 , , 0.94 , , 42 , , 26 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align:left;" , Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong , 27,452 , , 1.90 , , - , , 16 , , 10 , , 4 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 25,157 , , 1.74 , , 0.24 , , 20 , , 9 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align:left;" , Kowloon West New Dynamic , 11,647 , , 0.81 , , - , , 5 , , 3 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align:left;" , New Territories Association of Societies , 2,356 , , 0.16 , , 0.03 , , 2 , , 2 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:#5A3D1B", , style="text-align:left;" , Federation of Public Housing Estates , 3,457 , , 0.24 , , - , , 1 , , 1 , , 1 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align:left;" , Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions , 3,168 , , 0.22 , , 0.06 , , 2 , , 1 , , 0 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align:left;" , New Century Forum , 1,717 , , 0.12 , , - , , 1 , , 0 , , 1 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Pro-Beijing Independents , 241,088 , , 16.68 , , - , , 178 , , 100 , , , - style="background-color:Pink" , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" , Total for pro-Beijing camp, , 788,389 , , 54.61 , , 0.81 , , 486 , , 298 , , 6 , - , style="background-color:lightgreen;border-bottom-style:hidden;" rowspan="23", , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Democratic Party , 196,068 , , 13.56 , , 3.86 , , 95 , , 43 , , 1 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood , 55,275 , , 3.82 , , 0.03 , , , 26 , , 18 , , 2 , - , style="background-color: ", , style="text-align:left;" , Neo Democrats , 42,148 , , 2.92 , , 0.77 , , 16 , , 15 , , 8 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, 52,346 , , 3.62 , , 0.41 , , 25 , , 10 , , 3 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre , 16,105 , , 1.11 , , 0.11 , , 6 , , 5 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Labour Party , 23,029 , , 1.59 , , - , , 12 , , 3 , , 2 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Power for Democracy , 3,938 , , 0.27 , , 0.05 , , 1 , , 1 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Sha Tin Community Network , 3,718 , , 0.26 , , - , , 2 , , 1 , , 1 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , League of Social Democrats , 6,526 , , 0.45 , , 1.40 , , 5 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Individuals , 52,612 , , 3.64 , , - , , 38 , , 9 , , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" , colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" , Total for Democratic Coalition for DC Election, , 451,765, , 31.25 , , 0.04, , 226 , , 105 , , 21 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Youngspiration , 12,520 , , 0.87 , , - , , 9 , , 1 , , 1 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Democratic Alliance , 5,313 , , 0.37 , , - , , 4 , , 1 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Kowloon East Community , 3,922 , , 0.27 , , - , , 3 , , 1 , , 1 , - , width=1px style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , The Frontier , 2,974 , , 0.21 , , - , , 1 , , 1 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , People Power , 11,503 , , 0.80 , , 1.19 , , 9 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color:#149DA8" , , style="text-align:left;" , Tuen Mun Community , 5,196 , , 0.36 , , - , , 4 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Civic Passion , 3,006 , , 0.21 , , - , , 6 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Tsz Wan Shan Constructive Power , 3,633 , , 0.25 , , - , , 2 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color:#44C4DD" , , style="text-align:left;" , North of the Rings , 1,710 , , 0.12 , , - , , 1 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Land Justice League , 1,482 , , 0.10 , , 0.16 , , 1 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color:#FDB623" , , style="text-align:left;" , Tsuen Wan Dynamic for the People , 1,500 , , 0.10 , , - , , 1 , , 0 , , 0 , - , width=1px style="background-color: " , , style="text-align:left;" , Independent democrats and others , 77,767 , , 5.38 , , - , , 66 , , 17 , , , - style="background-color:LightGreen" , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" , Total for pro-democracy camp, , 581,058 , , 40.20 , , 1.00 , , 335 , , 126 , , 25 , - style="background-color:#DDDDDD;" , colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" , Independent and others , 75,079 , , 5.19 , , 0.19 , , 114 , , 7 , , 4 , - , style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3", Total valid votes , width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 1,445,526 , width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 100.0 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", - , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 935 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 431 , style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 19 , - , style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3", Invalid votes , width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 21,703 , width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" rowspan=2 colspan=5 , , - , style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3", Total (turnout 47.01%) , width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9", 1,467,229

Results by district

Vote summary

Seat summary

Outcome

HK District Council 2015 in honeycomb grids

A historic turnout rate of 47 percent turnout rate was recorded in the election, of which ten constituencies with the highest turnout rates were all middle-class residential districts. The

remained control of all 18 District Councils with the

(DAB) the largest party far ahead of the others with 119 seats. The pan-democracy camp failed to reclaim control of the

which they won majority of the elected seats but was balanced by the appointed seats in the last election. Both pan-democrats and pro-Beijing camp won 19 seats in the Sha Tin District Council but pro-Beijing retained control with the ''ex officio'' seat of the Sha Tin Rural Committee Chairman. Two pro-democracy

"super seat" legislative councillors Albert Ho and Frederick Fung were unseated by newcomers, while another pro-democracy figure James To kept his seat in Olympic and became the only one of the three pro-democracy super seat lawmakers to be able to seek a re-election in the same constituency in the next year's Legislative Council election . In Lai Kok, Fung won 2,432 votes, 99 short of won by his challenger, 25-year-old Chan Wing-yan supported by both the DAB and the

(FTU), while Fung’s former ally Eric Wong Chung-ki, who also stood against him in the same constituency, won 215 votes. In Lok Tsui, Albert Ho won 1,617 votes, 125 fewer than former Law Society of Hong Kong president Junius Ho, while radical democrat Civic Passion's Cheng Chung-tai took 391 votes. At least eight candidates inspired by the 2014 Occupy protests scored unexpected success, with Chui Chi-kin, almost unknown to the public before he was elected, beat DAB legislator Christopher Chung with 2,017 votes against Chung's 1,829 votes in Yue Wan. Another DAB legislator Elizabeth Quat also lost her seat in Chung On to pro-democracy Labour Party Yip Wing. Wong Chi-ken, another of the dozens of 'Umbrella soldiers' ran under the banner of Kowloon East Community, won 1,729 votes against incumbent Fung Kam-yuen in Lok Wah North, who scored 1,246 votes. Clarisse Yeung, who ran in Tai Hang constituency, won 1,398 votes, 250 more votes than Gigi Wong Ching-chi of the New People's Party (NPP). In Whampoa East, Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) legislator Priscilla Leung, who won 2,314 votes and beat 24-year-old Yau Wai-ching, another “Umbrella soldier” of Youngspiration, by fewer than 300 votes. Another Youngspiration candidate Kwong Po-yin defeated incumbent Kowloon City District Council chairman Lau Wai-wing by 39 votes in Whampoa West. The Neo Democrats, a breakaway group of the Democratic Party, fared especially well, winning 15 of 16 district seats they contested which made their total seats jumped from 8 to 15. The

won 10 seats in total, although legislator Kenneth Chan failed in his bid to run in South Horizons East and to secure an entry ticket to a super seat next year. The Democratic Party won one more seat and scored 43 in total. Several second-tier figures, including vice-chairman Lo Kin-hei and chief executive Lam Cheuk-ting, scored victories in Lei Tung II and

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respectively, while others like vice-chairman Andrew Wan lost in Shek Yam. The FTU, which its district councillors had dropped their dual membership of DAB and FTU to rally behind Chan Yuen-han in the District Council (Second) "super seat" in the 2012 Legislative Council election, won 27 seats in total under the FTU banner solely and secured a qualification to nominate a candidate for the "super seat" in next year's election. The New People's Party, although having formed an alliance with the Civil Force, suffered unexpected defeats in Sha Tin as many veteran Civil Force district councillors were defeated by pro-democratic new faces. In Hong Kong Island, chairwoman

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's Legislative Council constituency, the NPP also lost a few seats such as Tai Hang and Tai Koo Shing East. A total of eight victors were employees of state-owned enterprises. The local subsidiary of China Travel Service announced on its website after the election that six of their employees had won seats. The CTS staff association praised “the ‘love the country love Hong Kong’ and society-serving spirit of the CTS staff ... nd their.. substantial contributions to the group’s involvement in Hong Kong’s social affairs”. There were two others in addition to the six from CTS, and some had stood for election previously. None had disclosed their relationships with the state-owned firms in their official election platforms.

Aftermath

Cheng Wing-kin case

Cheng Wing-kin, an online radio host, was revealed and He offered localist groups more than HK$850,000 for each of them to take on pan-democrat contenders in specified constituencies, including the offers of between HK$150,000 and HK$200,000 to five individuals, including Youngspiration's Baggio Leung Chung-hang, upon the instructions of a Putonghua-speaking “Boss Li”, whom was allegedly from Beijing’s

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. Leung declined and publicised the offer, in eventually led to Cheng being convicted for engaging in corrupt conduct at the election.

References

External links

Official website

2015 District Council Election official website

Manifestos and platforms

參選宣言
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''"Serving You with Sincerity and Dedication"''
* Democratic Party
區議會選舉 2015 十二大政綱 Election Platform
* League of Social Democrats
反對操弄，雨傘起動
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