2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election
Hong Kong legislative election, 2016
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2012 ←
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4 September 2016 |
→ 2020
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| All to the Legislative Council |
| Opinion polls |
| Turnout |
58.28% (GC)  5.23pp
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First party |
Second party |
Third party |
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| Leader |
Starry Lee |
Emily Lau |
Andrew Leung |
| Party |
DAB |
Democratic |
BPA |
| Alliance |
Pro-Beijing |
Pan-democracy |
Pro-Beijing |
| Leader's seat |
District Council (Second) |
New Territories East
(lost seat)
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Industrial (First) |
| Last election |
13 seats, 20.22% |
6 seats, 13.65% |
New party |
| Seats won |
12
(7 GCs + 5 FCs)
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7
(5 GCs + 2 FCs)
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7
(1 GC + 6 FCs)
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| Seat change |
 1 |
1 |
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| Popular vote |
361,617 |
199,876 |
49,745 |
| Percentage |
16.68% |
9.22% |
2.29% |
| Swing |
3.54pp
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4.43pp
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N/A |
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Fourth party |
Fifth party |
Sixth party |
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| Leader |
Alan Leong |
Lam Shuk-yee |
Vincent Fang |
| Party |
Civic |
FTU |
Liberal |
| Alliance |
Pan-democracy |
Pro-Beijing |
Pro-Beijing |
| Leader's seat |
Kowloon East
(lost seat)
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Did not stand |
Retired from Wholesale & Retail |
| Last election |
6 seats, 14.08% |
6 seats, 7.06% |
5 seats, 2.64% |
| Seats won |
6
(5 GCs + 1 FC)
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5
(3 GCs + 2 FCs)
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4
(0 GC + 4 FCs)
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| Seat change |
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1 |
1 |
| Popular vote |
207,855 |
169,854 |
21,500 |
| Percentage |
9.59% |
7.83% |
0.99% |
| Swing |
4.49pp
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0.77pp
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1.70pp
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Seventh party |
Eighth party |
Ninth party |
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| Leader |
Regina Ip |
Erica Yuen
and Avery Ng
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Baggio Leung |
| Party |
NPP |
PP/LSD |
Youngspiration |
| Alliance |
Pro-Beijing |
Pan-democracy |
ALLinHK |
| Leader's seat |
Hong Kong Island |
Hong Kong Island
(defeated)
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New Territories East |
| Last election |
2 seats, 3.76% |
4 seats, 14.59% |
New party |
| Seats won |
3
(3 GCs)
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2
(2 GCs)
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2
(2 GCs)
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| Seat change |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Popular vote |
167,589 |
156,019 |
81,422 |
| Percentage |
7.73% |
7.20% |
3.75% |
| Swing |
3.97pp
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7.39pp
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N/A |
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| Elected candidates by each constituency |
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Jasper Tsang
DAB
Andrew Leung
BPA
The 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 4 September 2016 for the 6th Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo). A total of 70 members, 35 from geographical constituencies (GCs) and 35 from functional constituencies (FCs), were returned. The election came after the rejection of the 2016/2017 constitutional reform proposals which suggested the electoral method for the 2016 Legislative Council remains unchanged.
A historic record number of 2.2 million voters, 58 per cent of the registered electorate, turned out in wake of the 2014 pro-democracy Occupy movement often dubbed as the "Umbrella Revolution" with the localists emerged as a new political force behind the pro-Beijing and pan-democracy camps by winning six seats in the geographical constituencies and gaining nearly 20 per cent of the vote share. Many new faces rose from the post-Occupy political forces got elected.Demosisto's Nathan Law, a 23-year-old Occupy student leader became the youngest candidate to be elected in history along with his allies Lau Siu-lai and Eddie Chu.
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