2016 New Territories East by-election

2016 New Territories East by-election

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Opinion polls
Turnout	46.18%
Candidate Alvin Yeung Holden Chow Edward Leung Party Civic DAB Indigenous Alliance Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing Localist Popular vote 160,880 150,329 66,524 Percentage 37.19% 34.75% 15.38%
Parties with most votes by each district
Legislative Councillor before election Ronny Tong (resigned) Nonpartisan Elected Legislative Councillor Alvin Yeung Civic

The 2016 New Territories East by-election was held on 28 February 2016 after the incumbent Legislative Councillor Ronny Tong Ka-wah of New Territories East quit the Civic Party and resigned from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), effective on 1 October 2015.

The winning candidate in the by-election serves a term of only around five months, as the session of legislature ends in July 2016.^[1] Though the term is short, the pan-democrats saw the seat as crucial, fearing that the pro-Beijing camp would modify the rules of procedure if they gained a majority of the geographical constituency seats to block pan-democrats' filibustering, as the seats in the geographical constituencies commanded by two camps were evenly 17-17 before the election.

Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu of the pan-democracy camp held the seat for the Civic Party with 37 percent of the popular vote. Holden Chow Ho-ding of the Beijing-loyalist Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) came second, and Edward Leung Tin-kei of the localist Hong Kong Indigenous - who took a leading role in the 9 February Mong Kok civil unrest - came third.^[2]