The Election
| The Election | |
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| Genre | Political drama |
| Written by | Wong Wai-keung |
| Directed by | Wong Kwok-keung |
| Starring |
Angelica Lee Liu Kai-chi Gregory Wong Kwok Fung Violet Li |
| Opening theme | "I'll Be There" by Eva Chan |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Original language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 44–69 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hong Kong Television Network |
| Release | |
| Picture format | 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | 19 November 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The Election (Chinese: 選戰) is a political drama television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. With a budget of HK$15 million, filming started in July 2014 and wrapped up on 28 October 2014. The first episode premiered on 19 November 2014. The second episode and episodes after will be relocated to the weekly Saturday slot. A second season is planned to start filming in February 2015 but was postponed indefinitely.
With the failure of democratic movements such as the 2014 protests, the election of Chief Executive in 2017 is a hybrid universal suffrage: one has to obtain 600 votes from the 1200-member Nominating Committee to stand as an official Chief Executive candidate. Wai Man-hin (Poon Chan-leung), non-partisan candidate, is killed in a car accident on the day he wins the Chief Executive election. In the coming years, Wai's widow, Yip Ching (Angelica Lee), becomes an active activist for labour rights.
As the 2022 Chief Executive election approaches, Luk Wai-tou (Savio Tsang), DNRA-backed candidate, is embroiled in an extramarital scandal. While DNRA continues to back Luk under the pressure of Wang, a mainland official, Sung Man-san (Liu Kai-chi), President of the Legislative Council and Chairman of DNRA, is ambitious and tries to replace Luk. Meanwhile, Yip is persuaded by Cheung Gwai-lung (Gregory Wong) into following her late husband's footsteps and participating in the election.
With the increase in the maximum election expenses, prospective candidates have to rely more on sponsors of local tycoons, who are mostly supportive of the government and pro-government DNRA. After appointing Cheung as her election officer, Yip eventually receives sponsor and nominating votes, but refuses to co-operate with HKMG, Hong Kong's leading media group. Sung fabricates evidence of Luk's affairs to weaken Luk's popularity, but Wang still supports a now-reluctant Luk to stand for the election. Luk discovers that Sung is behind all his scandals but is killed and then replaced by Sung in despair.
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