Hong Kong district councils election, 2003

Hong Kong district councils election, 2003

1999 ←
23 November 2003
→ 2007

Elected Constituencies
400 (of the 529) seats in the Districts Councils
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Yeung Sum Jasper Tsang Frederick Fung
Party Democratic Party DAB HKADPL
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing Pro-democracy
Leader's seat N/A N/A Lai Kok,
Sham Shui Po
Last election 84 seats 85 seats 19 seats
Seats won 93 65 25
Seat change 9 20 6

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Lau Kong-wah Ambrose Lau James Tien
Party Civil Force Progressive Alliance Liberal Party
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing
Leader's seat Kam To,
Sha Tin
(lost seat)
N/A N/A
Last election 12 seats 14 seats 12 seats
Seats won 17 16 12
Seat change 5 2 0

The 2003 Hong Kong District Councils election was held on 23 November 2003. Election was held to all 18 districts of Hong Kong, for 400 members from directly elected constituencies out of total 534 council members, the second district councils election after the handover of Hong Kong in 1997. The pan-democrats received a great victory due to the controversy over the legislation of the Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 and the large-scale July 1 Protests.

General outcome

e • d Summary of the 23 November 2003 District Councils of Hong Kong election results
Parties Seats Net change Seats % Votes Votes % +/-
Democratic Party 93 +9 23.25
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong 65 −20 16.25
Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood 25 +6 6.25
Civil Force 17 +6 4.25
Hong Kong Progressive Alliance 13 −1 3.25
Liberal Party 12 −3 3.00
The Frontier 6 +2 1.50
Yuen Long Tin Shui Wai Democratic Alliance 4 N/A 1.00
Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre 3 +1 0.75
Civic Act-up 3 N/A 0.75
Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions 2 +2 0.50
Central and Western Democratic Power 2 N/A 0.50
Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions 1 N/A 0.25
Independent and others 155 38.75
Total (turnout 44.10%) 400 +5 100
Note1: The total seats of the District Councils are 529 including 27 ex-officio members (Rural Committee Chairmen in the New Territories), and 102 members appointed members by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
Note2: The total seats won by the Central and Western District Democratic Power are 8 including 6 members from the Democratic Party respectively.
Note3: Councilor Cyd Ho who represented both the Frontier and the Civic Act-up is counted as the member of the Frontier in this chart.

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