November 2018 Kowloon West by-election

2018 Kowloon West by-election

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Turnout44.45%
  Chan Hoi-yan Lee Cheuk-yan Frederick Fung
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]

  1. ^ "選管會:11月25日舉行立法會九龍西補選". 2018-06-26.
  2. ^ "Hong Kong pro-establishment candidate Chan Hoi-yan wins Kowloon West by-election". South China Morning Post. 25 November 2018.