Hong Kong legislative election, 2000

Hong Kong legislative election, 2000

1998 ← 10 September 2000 → 2004

outgoing members ← → members elected

All to the Legislative Council Turnout 43.57% (GC) 9.72pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Martin Lee Tsang Yok-sing James Tien Party Democratic DAB Liberal Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing Pro-Beijing Leader's seat Hong Kong Island Kowloon West Commercial (First) Last election 13 seats, 42.87% 10 seats, 25.23% 10 seats, 3.4% Seats won 12 (9 GCs + 3 FCs) 11 (7 GCs + 3 FCs + 1 EC) 8 (0 GC + 8 FCs) Seat change 1 2 Popular vote 417,873 374,780 24,858 Percentage 31.66% 28.40% 1.88% Swing 11.21pp 3.17pp 1.52pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   PA Leader Ambrose Lau Lau Chin-shek Emily Lau Party Progressive Alliance CTU Frontier Alliance Pro-Beijing Pro-democracy Pro-democracy Leader's seat Election Committee Kowloon West New Territories East Last election 5 seats N/A 3 seats, 10.03% Seats won 4 (1 GC + 1 FC + 2 EC) 2 (2 GC) 2 (2 GCs) Seat change 1 Popular vote 25,773 96,752 89,529 Percentage 1.95% 7.33% 6.78% Swing N/A N/A 3.25pp

Elected candidates by each constituency

President before election Rita Fan Independent Elected President Rita Fan Independent

Rita Fan
Independent

Rita Fan
Independent

The 2000 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 10 September 2000 for members of the 2nd Legislative Council (LegCo) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The election returned 24 members from directly elected geographical constituencies, 6 seats from the Election Committee constituency and 30 members from functional constituencies, of which 9 uncontested.

The election saw the decline in turnout rate from 53.29 percent in 1998 to 43.57 percent. The Democratic Party was able to maintain the largest party status in the legislature by retaining 12 seats, despite its vote share fell sharply by eight percent, if including Lau Chin-shek from the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (CTU) running in the same ticket with Democrat James To in Kowloon West, from 42 percent in 1998 to 34 percent in 2000.

In contrast, the pro-Beijing rival Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) raised its vote share over two years by five percent, to 29.6 percent if including Tang Siu-tong from the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance (HKPA). As a result, the DAB won 11 seats, a sharp increase of three seats from the previous election, making it the second largest political party in the legislature, despite an alleged corruption scandal involving its vice-chairman Cheng Kai-nam at the peak of the campaign. Cheng did not take his office and a by-election in December was won by a pro-democracy independent Audrey Eu.

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