November 2018 Kowloon West by-election

2018 Kowloon West by-election

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Turnout	44.45%
Candidate Chan Hoi-yan Lee Cheuk-yan Frederick Fung Party Nonpartisan Labour Nonpartisan Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-democracy N/A Popular vote 106,457 93,047 12,509 Percentage 49.52% 43.28% 5.82%
Candidates with most votes by each district (blue for Chan)
Legislative Councillor before election Lau Siu-lai (disqualified) Labour Elected Legislative Councillor Chan Hoi-yan Nonpartisan

The 2018 Kowloon West by-election was held on 25 November 2018 after the incumbent pro-democracy Legislative Councillor Lau Siu-lai of Kowloon West was disqualified from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo) after the oath-taking controversy resulted in the disqualifications of the six pro-democracy and localist legislators.^[1] It followed the by-election of four other vacated seats on 11 March 2018. Chan Hoi-yan, a nonpartisan backed by the pro-Beijing camp won over veteran democrat Lee Cheuk-yan of the Labour Party, a backup candidate for the pro-democracy camp after Lau's candidacy was disqualified.

The pro-democrats suffered another defeat in eight months after Yiu Chung-yim narrowly lost to Vincent Cheng of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) in the same constituency in the March by-election. Frederick Fung, the former pro-democrat legislator who came third, was accused of "vote splitting". As a result, the pro-democracy camp failed to regain majority in the geographical constituencies which prevent the pro-Beijing camp to make changes to the legislature's Rule of Procedures to curb the pro-democrats opposition.^[2]