New Territories East by-election, 2016

New Territories East by-election, 2016

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Opinion polls
Turnout	46.18%
Candidate Alvin Yeung Holden Chow Edward Leung Party Civic DAB Indigenous Alliance Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing N/A Popular vote 160,880 150,329 66,524 Percentage 37.19% 34.75% 15.38%
Parties with most votes by each district
Legislative Councillor before election Ronny Tong (resigned) Nonpartisan Elected Legislative Councillor Alvin Yeung Civic

Ronny Tong (resigned)
Nonpartisan

Alvin Yeung
Civic

The 2016 New Territories East by-election was held on 28 February 2016 after the incumbent Legislative Councillor Ronny Tong Ka-wah of New Territories East quit the Civic Party and resigned from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), effective on 1 October 2015.

The winning candidate in the by-election serves a term of only around five months, as the session of legislature ends in July 2016. Though the term is short, the pan-democrats saw the seat as crucial, fearing that the pro-Beijing camp would modify the rules of procedure if they gained a majority of the geographical constituency seats to block pan-democrats' filibustering, as the seats in the geographical constituencies commanded by two camps were evenly 17-17 before the election.

Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu of the pan-democracy camp held the seat for the Civic Party with 37 percent of the popular vote. Holden Chow Ho-ding of the Beijing-loyalist DAB came second, and Edward Leung Tin-kei of the localist Hong Kong Indigenous - who took a leading role in the 9 February Mong Kok civil unrest - came third.