2011 Hong Kong local elections

none February 2020 December 2018 2011 Hong Kong local elections Hong Kong parliamentary no 2007 Hong Kong local elections 2007 2015 Hong Kong local elections 2015 All Elected Constituencies412 (of the 507) seats in all 18 Districts Councils 6 November 2011 3,560,535 8.03% 1,202,544 (41.49%) 2.66pp 150x150px Tam Yiu-chung Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong Pro-Beijing 115 seats, 25.73% 136 16 282,119 23.89% 1.84pp 150x150px Albert Ho Democratic Party (Hong Kong) Pan-democracy 59 seats, 15.38% 47 3 205,716 17.42% 2.04pp 150x150px Bruce Liu Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood Pan-democracy 17 seats, 4.60% 15 2 45,453 3.85% 0.75pp Ho Hau-cheung Civil Force Pro-Beijing 18 seats, 2.71% 15 3 35,221 2.98% 0.27pp 150x150px Cheng Yiu-tong Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Pro-Beijing 1 seat, 0.37% 11 7 36,646 3.10% 2.73pp 150x150px Miriam Lau Liberal Party (Hong Kong) Pro-Beijing 14 seats, 4.39% 9 3 23,408 1.98% 2.41pp 150x150px Gary Fanand others Neo Democrats Pan-democracy New party 8 25,437 2.15% N/A 150x150px Alan Leong Civic Party Pan-democracy 8 seats, 4.29% 7 5 47,603 4.03% 0.26pp 150x150px Leung Yiu-chung Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre Pan-democracy 4 seats, 1.10% 5 2 14,364 1.22% 0.11pp 2011DCelectionmap.svg 400px Map of the winning party by constituency The 2011 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 6 November 2011. Elections were held to all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong, returning 412 members from directly elected constituencies, each selecting a council member.http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201111/07/P201111070090.htm 412 elected District Council members Info.gov.hk 7 November 2011 20 November 2011 After the government's constitutional reform package was passed in 2010, five new seats in the Legislative Council would be created in which the candidates would be nominated by all District Councillors. The pro-Beijing camp continued its success in this election and controlled all 18 District Councils. The pro-Beijing flagship party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) remained the biggest winner by taking 136 seats, far ahead of the pan-democracy flagship party Democratic Party's 47 seats. The Democratic Party faced challenges from radical democratic party People Power which campaigned against the Democratic Party and Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood (ADPL) which supported the government's constitutional reform package in 2010. The People Power filled 62 candidates, most of them stood against the Democratic Party and ADPL candidates, including Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho and ADPL former chairman Frederick Fung. Albert Ho and Frederick Fung were able to retain their seats, but other pan-democrat heavyweights who tried to gain seats in the District Councils in order to run in the new constituency in next year's Legislative Council election, including Tanya Chan, Ronny Tong and Lee Cheuk-yan, lost their bids to relatively unknown local councillors. Background Democratic development in Hong Kong 2010 Hong Kong electoral reform The pro-democracy camp had been urging for universal suffrage for decades. In 2005, a constitutional reform package was carried out by Donald Tsang, the Chief Executive. However, it was voted down by the pan-democrats as it did not state a clear timetable or road map to achieve an ultimate universal suffrage. On 29 December 2007, the NPCSC (China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress) announced that the Chief Executive and all members of Legislative Council may be selected by universal suffrage in 2017 and 2020 respectively. The statement by Beijing was unclear and it implied the term "universal suffrage" may be defined by the Central Government. Afterward, Donald Tsang carried out another reform package in 2009. While the Civic Party and the League of Social Democrats councilors resigned from Legislative Council in order to launch a de facto referendum against the package and urging for real universal suffrage, their ally, the Democratic Party went for negotiation with the mainland officials and carried out a revised proposal. On 24–25 June 2010, the revised package was passed through the Legislative Council. It brought out a major split within the pan-democracy camp. A new radical party, People Power led by Wong Yuk-man and Albert Chan was announced to punish those who betrayal the cause of democracy.http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=12&art_id=107581&sid=31080721&con_type=3&d_str=20110128&fc=4 A league torn apart The Standard Hong Kong 20 November 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20140904130347/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=12&art_id=107581&sid=31080721&con_type=3&d_str=20110128&fc=4 4 September 2014 The People Power sent total number of 62 candidates into the election, most of them chose to contest with the Democratic Party and ADPL candidates. According to the new reform package, general public are allowed to elect district council members into LegCo from the new five-seat district council functional constituency following their nomination within the councillors in the 2012 election. District councils election thus become a new battlefield for the new five seats of LegCo in which many heavyweights chose to run for a seat for the super seats of LegCo including Chan Yuen-han, Ronny Tong and Lee Cheuk-yan. Pre-election controversies Political donations Just one month before the election in October 2011, a leaked document revealed that Jimmy Lai, media mogul of Apple Daily has long been donating money to many supporters of democracy groups.South China morning post. Lai hits back over donations furore. 19 October 2011. For example, the Democratic Party received HK$13,690,000 from 2006 to 2010. While the Civic Party received HK$14,566,500 for the same period. Democracy supporter Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen was also seen receiving more than HK$20 million, and the radical League of Social Democrats received HK$1 million last year. Former chief secretary Anson Chan received HK$1.3 million from 2007 to 2009. According to Sina.com Lai was said to have donated about $10 million to democracy camp groups in a 5-year span.http://news.sina.com.hk/news/2/1/1/2466351/1.html 民建聯指捐款多或影響決策 – 新浪網 – 新聞 News.sina.com.hk 20 November 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20111120041654/http://news.sina.com.hk/news/2/1/1/2466351/1.html 20 November 2011 The Wall Street Journal saw this as part of "a fresh campaign to accuse pro-democracy politicians of being stooges of foreign powers"."Black Hands' in Hong Kong", p. 16, The Wall Street Journal. 5 December 2011. Since 2009–2010 the top four political parties received a total of $70 million in donations.http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/16094822/article-4大黨收獻金-年逾7000萬?instance=news_pics 4大黨收獻金 年逾7000萬 worldjournal.com 19 October 2011 20 November 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111021043011/http://www.worldjournal.com/view/full_news/16094822/article-4%E5%A4%A7%E9%BB%A8%E6%94%B6%E7%8D%BB%E9%87%91-%E5%B9%B4%E9%80%BE7000%E8%90%AC?instance=news_pics 21 October 2011 dead Pro-establishment political groups are known to receive handsome political donations from many prominent Hong Kong businessmen. Out of that sum more than half ($48,370,000) went to the DAB. This amount was also 2.5 times more than the next pro-Beijing camp, Liberal Party as well as 7 times more than the sum received by pro-democracy camp groups like Civic Party and Democratic party. The DAB received eight times the amount as the Democratic Party in 2009–10. However, there is a serious shortage of people donating to the democracy camp parties. Other than Lai, there seems to be nobody else in HK donating to the democracy camps any more. According to Emily Lau, first there is definitely a question of transparency with regards to who is donating money. There is also the issue of revealing donors. The WSJ believed that the taboo on discussing the activities of the Chinese Communist Party implies the Hong Kong government will never pass a law governing political parties. It added: "As a result, donor transparency will never be mandated." The Chinese Communist Party bans and punishes people once they know who is donating to democracy camps. In this election, the well-financed pro-Beijing parties swept the polls. Foreign domestic workers right of abode issues Right of abode for foreign domestic workers in HK became an election issue as the Civic Party was closely identified with the legal advisers who represented one such Filipina.Dioquino, Rose-An Jessica (8 November 2011). "Pro-domestic workers candidates lose in HK polls". GMA Network. Archived on 5 December 2011 The court case Vallejos v. Commissioner of Registration was one of the primary case in 2011. Pro-Beijing DAB argued that 125,000 workers were eligible, and would cause unemployment in Hong Kong to rise from 3.5% to between 7 and 10%.http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/commentary/hong-kong-world-city-or-racist/477156 Hong Kong: 'World City' or Racist? Jakarta Globe 20 November 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20111118024153/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/commentary/hong-kong-world-city-or-racist/477156 18 November 2011 The Pan-Democrats, particularly the Civic Party, were disadvantaged by this as many HK residents fear granting Filipinos permanent residency will affect them.http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/11/07/hk-pro-democracy-parties-to-review-strategy-after-election-defeats/ https://web.archive.org/web/20111113115020/http://blogs.voanews.com/breaking-news/2011/11/07/hk-pro-democracy-parties-to-review-strategy-after-election-defeats/ dead 13 November 2011 HK Pro-Democracy Parties to Review Strategy After Election Defeats VOA News 20 November 2011 Results results by constituency Results breakdown of the 2011 Hong Kong local elections A post-handover record of 1.2 million voters cast their ballots. The pro-Beijing DAB secured the most seats. Albert Ho held his seat, but many other pro-democracy camp heavyweights lost their seat including Tanya Chan, Ronny Tong and Lee Cheuk-yan.http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/international/pro-beijing-parties-sweep-hong-kong-district-polls/476808 https://archive.today/20130204061654/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/international/pro-beijing-parties-sweep-hong-kong-district-polls/476808 dead 4 February 2013 Pro-Beijing Parties Sweep Hong Kong District Polls Jakarta Globe 20 November 2011 Democratic Party vice chairman Sin Chung-kai admitted that this was "a warning to the pro-democracy camp".Woo Joyce http://ca.news.yahoo.com/pro-beijing-parties-sweep-hong-kong-district-polls-060929812.html Pro-Beijing parties sweep Hong Kong district polls AFP yahoo! 7 November 2011 5 December 2011 https://archive.today/20111205055709/http://ca.news.yahoo.com/pro-beijing-parties-sweep-hong-kong-district-polls-060929812.html dead Summary of the 6 November 2011 District Councils of Hong Kong election results |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" colspan=3 |Political Affiliation ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Popular vote ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |%± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Standing ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Elected ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |± |- | width=1px style="background-color:pink;border-bottom-style:hidden;" rowspan="10" | | width=1px style="background-color: Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" | | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong | 282,119 || 23.89 || 1.84 || 182 || 136 || 16 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Civil Force" | | style="text-align:left;" |Civil Force | 35,221 || 2.98 || 0.27 || 20 || 15 || 3 |- |style="background-color: Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions"| | style="text-align:left;" | Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions | 36,646 || 3.10 || 2.73 || 20 || 11 || 7 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Liberal Party (Hong Kong)" | | style="text-align:left;" |Liberal Party | 23,408 || 1.98 || 2.41 || 24 || 9 || 3 |- |style="background-color: New People's Party (Hong Kong)"| | style="text-align:left;" | New People's Party | 15,568 || 1.32 || - || 12 || 4 || 3 |- |style="background-color: New Territories Association of Societies"| | style="text-align:left;" | New Territories Association of Societies | 2,187 || 0.19 || - || 2 || 2 || 1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Economic Synergy" | | style="text-align:left;" |Economic Synergy | 2,404 || 0.20 || - || 3 || 1 || 1 |- |style="background-color: Fu Cheong Estate Residents' Association"| | style="text-align:left;" | Fu Cheong Estate Residents Association | 2,235 || 0.19 || - || 1 || 1 || 1 |- |style="background-color: Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions"| | style="text-align:left;" | Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions | 1,859 || 0.16 || 0.04 || 2 || 1 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Independent politician" | | style="text-align:left;" | Pro-Beijing Independents | 252,720 || 21.40 || - || 172 || 121 || 3 |- style="background-color:Pink" | colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" | Total for pro-Beijing camp|| 654,368 || 55.42 || 1.77 || 438 || 301 || 23 |- | style="background-color:lightgreen;border-bottom-style:hidden;" rowspan="14"| | width=1px style="background-color: Democratic Party (Hong Kong)" | | style="text-align:left;" |Democratic Party | 205,716 || 17.42 || 2.04 || 132 || 47 || 3 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood" | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood | 45,453 || 3.85 || 0.75 || 26 || 15 || 2 |- |style="background-color: Neo Democrats"| | style="text-align:left;" |Neo Democrats | 25,437 || 2.15 || - || 10 || 8 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Civic Party" | | style="text-align:left;" |Civic Party | 47,603 || 4.03 || 0.26 || 41 || 7 || 5 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Neighbourhood and Workers' Service Centre" | | style="text-align:left;" |Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre | 14,364 || 1.22 || 0.11 || 6 || 5 || 2 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions" | | style="text-align:left;" |Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions | 4,044 || 0.34 || 0.14 || 3 || 0 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Power for Democracy" | | style="text-align:left;" | Power for Democracy | 3,837 || 0.32 || - || 4 || 0 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Independent politician" | | style="text-align:left;" | Individuals | 23,007 || 1.95 || 2.33 || 14 || 6 || 1 |- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" | colspan=2 style="text-align:left;" | Total for Democratic Coalition for DC Election|| 369,461 || 31.29 || 3.60 || 236 || 88 || 9 |- | width=1px style="background-color: People Power (Hong Kong)" | | style="text-align:left;" |People Power | 23,465 || 1.99 || - || 62 || 1 || 1 |- | width=1px style="background-color: League of Social Democrats" | | style="text-align:left;" |League of Social Democrats | 21,833 || 1.85 || 0.66 || 28 || 0 || 5 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Land Justice League" | | style="text-align:left;" | Land Justice League | 3,025 || 0.26 || - || 4 || 0 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: #FF7E22" | | style="text-align:left;" | Citizens' Radio | 1,718 || 0.15 || - || 2 || 0 || 0 |- | width=1px style="background-color: Independent politician" | | style="text-align:left;" | Independent democrats and others | 45,015 || 3.81 || - || 37 || 14 || 3 |- style="background-color:lightGreen" | colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" | Total for pan-democracy camp|| 464,512 || 39.34 || 0.18 || 369 || 103 || 16 |- style="background-color:#DDDDDD;" | colspan=3 style="text-align:left;" |Independent and others | 61,930 || 5.24 || 1.96 || 108 || 8 || 2 |- |style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|Total valid votes |width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|1,180,809 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.0 |style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|- |style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|915 |style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|412 |style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|7 |- |style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|Invalid votes |width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|21,497 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" rowspan=2 colspan=5 | |- |style="text-align:left;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|Total (turnout 41.49%) |width="75" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|1,202,544 |} Results by district Council Previouscontrol Previousparty Post-electioncontrol Largestparty DAB DPCFADPL FTU Lib Civ Others Pro-dem Pro-Beijing Appointed & ex officio Composition Details Central & Western Pro-Beijing DPHK Pro-Beijing DABHK5 4 1 5 4 11 3 70 18 4 Green 11 Red 3 FireBrick Details Wan Chai Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK3 2 2 9 2 70 13 2 Green 9 Red 2 FireBrick Details Eastern Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK16 2 1 2 3 13 6 30 6 70 43 6 Green 1 Gray 30 Red 6 FireBrick Details Southern Pro-Beijing DPHK Pro-Beijing DPHK 25 1 1 8 6 11 3 70 20 6 Green 11 Red 3 FireBrick Details Yau Tsim Mong Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK8 1 8 2 15 3 70 20 2 Green 15 Red 3 FireBrick Details Sham Shui Po NOC HKADPL Pro-Beijing HKADPL 4 7 10 7 14 3 70 24 8 Green 13 Red 3 FireBrick Details Kowloon City Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK7 1 4 1 9 5 17 3 70 25 5 Green 17 Red 3 FireBrick Details Wong Tai Sin Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK9 3 2 1 1 9 9 16 4 70 29 9 Green 16 Red 4 FireBrick Details Kwun Tong Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK12 2 1 20 6 28 5 70 40 6 Green 1 Gray 28 Red 5 FireBrick Details Tsuen Wan Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK4 1 1 2 9 4 13 3+2 70 22 4 Green 13 Red 5 FireBrick Details Tuen Mun Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK12 7 2 8 9 20 5+1 70 35 9 Green 20 Red 6 FireBrick Details Yuen Long Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK7 3 2 2 17 5 26 5+6 70 42 5 Green 26 Red 11 FireBrick Details North Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK (majority)14 1 2 1 16 3+4 70 24 1 Green 16 Red 7 FireBrick Details Tai Po Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK8 1 10 3 16 3+2 70 24 3 Green 16 Red 5 FireBrick Details Sai Kung Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK7 2 3 2 10 9 15 3+2 70 29 9 Green 15 Red 5 FireBrick Details Sha Tin Pro-Beijing Civil Force Pro-Beijing Civil Force 9 5 12 1 11 8 28 6+1 70 43 9 Green 27 Red 7 FireBrick Details Kwai Tsing Pro-Beijing DPHK Pro-Beijing DPHK 59 2 13 15 13 5+1 70 35 15 Green 1 Gray 13 Red 6 FireBrick Details Islands Pro-Beijing DABHK Pro-Beijing DABHK4 1 1 1 4 9 3+8 70 21 1 Green 9 Red 11 FireBrick Details TOTAL 136 47 15 15 11 9 7 168 102 307 95 70 507 102 Green 3 Grey 307 Red 95 FireBrick Vote summary right Votes, of total, by camp yes Pro-Beijing 55.42 Red Pan-democrats 39.34 Green right Seats, of total, by camp yes Pro-Beijing 73.06 Red Pan-democrats 25.00 Green Popular vote #ddd 600px 500px DAB Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong 23.89 Democratic Democratic Party (Hong Kong) 17.42 Civic Civic Party 4.03 ADPL Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood 3.85 FTU Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions 3.10 Civil Force Civil Force 2.98 Neo Democrats Neo Democrats 2.15 People Power People Power (Hong Kong) 1.99 Liberal Liberal Party (Hong Kong) 1.98 LSD League of Social Democrats 1.85 NPP New People's Party (Hong Kong) 1.32 NWSC Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre 1.22 Others Independent (politician) 34.22 Seat summary Seats #ddd 600px 500px DAB Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong 33.01 Democratic Democratic Party (Hong Kong) 11.41 ADPL Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood 3.64 Civil Force Civil Force 3.64 FTU Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions 2.67 Liberal Liberal Party (Hong Kong) 2.18 Neo Democrats Neo Democrats 1.94 Civic Civic Party 1.70 NWSC Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre 1.21 Others Independent (politician) 38.60 Post-election issues Following the election, pan-democrats complained of irregularities in voter registration records, and a number of candidates who lost in marginal seats made allegations of electoral fraud to the police. The government was criticised for failing to address the issue back in 2006 after alleged instances where multiple voters had registered under a same address surfaced. In defence, Chief Secretary Stephen Lam said that the matter was "investigated thoroughly five years ago", and that "no evidence of vote rigging were found".Lee, Samson (29 November 2011) "Past haunts Lam on election fraud" https://web.archive.org/web/20150910003535/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=4 10 September 2015 , The Standard. Retrieved 5 December 2011. The police received 16 such complaints in 2011. Among the irregularities alleged was that almost 100 voters in Central used registered offices and hotels as their home addresses.Lee, Colleen; Chong, Tanna; Lau, Stuart (29 November 2011). "Voter listed Four Seasons hotel as a home" https://web.archive.org/web/20111129113133/http://topics.scmp.com/news/hk-news-watch/article/Voter-listed-Four-Seasons-hotel-as-a-home 29 November 2011 . South China Morning Post. Retrieved 5 December 2011. Democratic Party candidate, Winfield Chong, who lost by 24 votes, said six buildings in the Sai Wan constituency used by approximately 120 voters to register were either being demolished or had been demolished; Yeung Sui-yin, who lost the Belcher seat by 33 votes, filed a complaint with the police, also alleging ballot rigging. ADPL candidate Lam Kin-man, who lost King's Park constituency by two votes, took up his complaint with the ICAC. Lam alleged that, for example, five registered voters at one flat in the constituency where he was candidate all had different surnames; none of the voters registered at seven flats were present or past owners. two units said to have been used for storage purposes each had 10 registered voters.Vote-rigging complaint by candidate RTHK. 29 November 2011. Archived 5 December 2011. Following up on the allegations, the ICAC mounted "Operation Wave Spray", according to which 22 suspects were found to have "provided false information about their residential addresses to election officers"; six of them were charged."ICAC detains 22 in vote-rigging probe". RTHK. 5 December 2011. Archived 5 December 2011. References 30em External links 2011 District Councils Election Official website 2011 District Councils Election - Election Results Official website Category:2011 elections in China Category:2011 in Hong Kong 2011 Category:November 2011 in China