Hong Kong legislative election, 2008

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Opinion polls
Turnout	45.20% (GC) 10.44pp
	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Tam Yiu-chung	Albert Ho	James Tien
Party	DAB	Democratic	Liberal
Alliance	Pro-Beijing	Pan-democracy	Pro-Beijing
Leader's seat	New Territories West	New Territories West	New Territories East (lost seat)
Last election	10 seats, 22.73%	9 seats, 25.19%	10 seats, 6.72%
Seats won	10 (7 GCs + 3 FCs)	8 (7 GCs + 1 FC)	7 (0 GC + 7 FCs)
Seat change	1	1	3
Popular vote	347,373	312,692	65,622
Percentage	22.92%	20.63%	4.33%
Swing	0.19pp	4.56pp	2.39pp

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Audrey Eu	Cheng Yiu-tong	Wong Yuk-man
Party	Civic	FTU	LSD
Alliance	Pan-democracy	Pro-Beijing	Pan-democracy
Leader's seat	Hong Kong Island	Did not stand	Kowloon West
Last election	4 seats, 6.62%	3 seats, 2.97%	New party
Seats won	5 (4 GCs + 1 FC)	4 (2 GCs + 2 FCs)	3 (3 GCs)
Seat change	1	1	1
Popular vote	206,980	86,311	153,390
Percentage	13.66%	5.70%	10.10%
Swing	7.04pp	2.73pp	N/A

Elected candidates by each constituency

President before election

Rita Fan
Independent

Elected President

Tsang Yok-sing
DAB

The 2008 Hong Kong Legislative Council election was held on 7 September 2008 for the 4th Legislative Council since the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. There were 60 seats in the 4th Legislative Council, with 30 members elected by geographical constituencies through direct elections, and 30 members by functional constituencies. Candidates for 14 functional constituency seats were unopposed.

The turnout rate was 45 percent with 1.51 million voters casting the ballots, about 10 percent lower than the pervious election in 2004. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB) remained the largest single party in the Legislative Council with 13 seats if including the two members of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU) while the pro-business Liberal Party suffered a big defeat by losing the two heavyweights, chairman James Tien and vice-chairwoman Selina Chow lost their seats in the New Territories East and the New Territories West. The duo resigned from the their party positions and Chow resigned from the Executive Council after the election, which was followed by a great split of the party.