Hong Kong district councils election, 2007
Hong Kong district councils election, 2007
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The 2007 Hong Kong District Councils election were held on 18 November 2007. Elections were held to all 18 districts of Hong Kong, returned 405 members from directly elected constituencies out of total 534 councils member. The pan-democrats suffered a devastating loss in the election.
General outcome
e • d Summary of the 18 November 2007 District Councils of Hong Kong election results
| Parties |
Seats |
Net change |
Seats % |
Votes |
Votes % |
+/- |
| Democratic Coalition |
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Democratic Party |
59 |
−34 |
14.57 |
173,833 |
15.13 |
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Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood |
17 |
−8 |
4.20 |
52,386 |
4.56 |
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Civic Party |
8 |
+1 |
1.97 |
48,837 |
4.25 |
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League of Social Democrats |
6 |
±0 |
1.48 |
29,714 |
2.59 |
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Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre |
4 |
+1 |
0.99 |
12,565 |
1.09 |
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The Frontier |
3 |
−3 |
0.74 |
18,203 |
1.58 |
| Individuals |
11 |
− |
2.72 |
73,900 |
6.43 |
| Total for Democratic Coalition |
108 |
N/A |
26.67 |
409,438 |
35.64 |
| DAB/FTU |
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Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong |
101 |
+38 |
24.94 |
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Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions |
1 |
N/A |
0.25 |
1,510 |
0.13 |
| Candidates ran under both DAB and FTU banners |
14 |
N/A |
3.46 |
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| Total for DAB/FTU |
116 |
N/A |
28.64 |
293,365 |
25.54 |
| Others |
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Civil Force |
18 |
+1 |
4.44 |
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Liberal Party |
14 |
+2 |
3.46 |
50,569 |
4.40 |
| Independent and others |
149 |
− |
36.79 |
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| Total (turnout 38.83%) |
405 |
+5 |
100 |
1,148,815 |
100 |
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| Note: The total seats of the District Councils are 534 including 27 ex-officio members (Rural Committee Chairmen in the New Territories), and 102 members appointed members by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. |
Aftermath
In December 2007, Donald Tsang named 27 government-appointed Council members.[1]
Tsang was criticised for not appointing a single member of the pan-democrats in both 2003 and in 2007.[1]