Jump to content

2012 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon West

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2012 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon West

← 2008 9 September 2012 (2012-09-09) 2016 →

All 5 Kowloon West seats to the Legislative Council
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Ann Chiang Wong Yuk-man Claudia Mo
Party DAB People Power Civic
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Pan-democracy
Last election 1 seat, 18.9% 1 seat, 18.2% 0 seat, 8.4%
Seats before 1 1 0
Seats won 1 1 1
Seat change Steady Steady Increase1
Popular vote 47,363 38,578 37,925
Percentage 20.4% 16.6% 16.3%
Swing Increase0.2% Decrease0.2% Increase7.9%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Helena Wong Priscilla Leung Tam Kwok-kiu
Party Democratic KWND ADPL
Alliance Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy
Last election 1 seat, 14.4% 1 seat, 9.6% 1 seat, 17.2%
Seats before 1 1 1
Seats won 1 1 0
Seat change Steady Steady Decrease1
Popular vote 36,029 34,548 35,440
Percentage 15.5% 14.9% 13.2%
Swing Increase1.1% Increase5.3% Decrease4.0%

Party with most votes in each District Council Constituency.

These are the Kowloon West results of the 2012 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 9 September 2012 and all 5 seats in Kowloon West where consisted of Yau Tsim Mong District, Sham Shui Po District and Kowloon City District were contested. Ann Chiang replacing Starry Lee who contested the District Council (Second) functional constituency stood for the largest pro-Beijing party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood's Tam Kwok-kiu replacing Frederick Fung who contested the new super seats as well, however lost to his ally Civic Party's Claudia Mo who was not elected in 2008. The ADPL once again lost all the seats in this stronghold since the 1998 election.

Overall results

[edit]

Before election:

3 2
Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing

Change in composition:

3 2
Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing
Party Seats Seats
change
Contesting
list(s)
Votes % %
change
People Power 1 0 1 38,578 16.6 −0.2
Civic 1 +1 1 37,925 16.3 +7.9
Democratic 1 0 1 36,029 15.5 +1.1
ADPL 0 −1 1 30,364 13.2 −4.0
Independent 0 0 1 2,399 1.0 N/A
Pro-democracy camp 3 0 5 145,565 62.7 −1.7
DAB 1 0 1 47,363 20.4 +0.2
KWND 1 0 1 34,548 14.9 +5.3
Independent 0 0 1 3,746 1.6 N/A
Pro-Beijing camp 2 0 3 85,657 36.9 +2.1
Independent or others 0 0 1 859 0.4 N/A
Turnout: 232,081 53.3

Candidates list

[edit]
Legislative Election 2012: Kowloon West[1]
List Candidates Votes Of total (%) ± from prev.
DAB Chiang Lai-wan
Chris Ip Ngo-tung, Vincent Cheng Wing-shun, Chan Wai-ming, Lam Sum-lim
47,363 20.41
(20+0.41)
+1.51
People Power Wong Yuk-man
Yim Tat-ming, Chau Tsun-kiu, Lau Tit-wai
38,578 16.62 −1.58
Civic Claudia Mo Man-ching
Joe Wong Tak-chuen
37,925 16.34 +7.94
Democratic Wong Pik-wan
Cheung Man-kwong, Li Yiu-kee, Yuen Hoi-man, Chong Miu-sheung
36,029 15.52 +1.12
KWND Leung Mei-fun
Yang Wing-kit, Wai Hoi-ying, Leung Man-kwong
34,548 14.89 +5.29
ADPL Tam Kwok-kiu, Liu Sing-lee, Rosanda Mok Ka-han, Wong Chi-yung, Austen Ng Po-shan 30,634 13.20 −4.00
Independent Wong Yee-him 3,746 1.61 N/A
Ind. democrat Wong Yat-yuk 2,399 1.03 N/A
Awakening Association Lam Yi-lai, Simon Ho Ka-kuen, Au Wing-ho, Lee Ka-wai 859 0.37 +0.07
Turnout 232,081 53.25 +6.07

Results by districts

[edit]
List Candidates Yau Tsim Mong Sham Shui Po Kowloon City Total
Independent Wong Yee-him 1.65 1.16 2.05 1.61
Democratic Helena Wong 18.10 11.90 17.49 15.52
ADPL Tam Kwok-kiu 6.67 21.71 8.91 13.20
Independent Roger Wong 1.22 0.96 0.98 1.03
DAB Ann Chiang 22.71 19.12 20.20 20.41
People Power Wong Yuk-man 16.75 16.68 16.49 16.62
Awakening Association Lam Yi-lai 0.53 0.35 0.29 0.37
KWND Priscilla Leung 14.43 13.24 16.84 14.89
Civic Claudia Mo 17.96 14.88 16.76 16.34

Opinion polling

[edit]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "2012 LegCo Election – Election Results". Electoral Affairs Commission.