2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election

2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election

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All 796 votes of the Election Committee
401 votes needed to win
Opinion polls
 
Nominee Donald Tsang Alan Leong
Party Nonpartisan Civic
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy
Electoral vote 649 123
Percentage 84.07% 15.93%

Chief Executive before election

Donald Tsang
Nonpartisan

Elected Chief Executive

Donald Tsang
Nonpartisan

The 2007 Hong Kong Chief Executive election was held on 25 March 2007 to select the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. Incumbent Chief Executive Donald Tsang was re-elected, defeating the pro-democracy challenger, legislator Alan Leong of the Civic Party by 649 to 123 votes in the 796-member Election Committee dominated by the pro-Beijing electors.

It was the first competitive Chief Executive election featuring two candidates from different political camp as the pan-democracy camp were able to field their candidate to challenge the Beijing-favoured candidate for the first time. It has been said that the competitive nature of this election, with debates held between the candidates, changed Hong Kong's political culture.