2000 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories West

These are the New Territories West results of the 2000 Hong Kong legislative election. The election was held on 10 September 2000 and all 6 seats in New Territories West, which consists of Tsuen Wan District, Tuen Mun District, Yuen Long District, Kwai Tsing District and Islands District, were contested. The Democratic Party first applied electoral strategy of dividing three candidate lists in order to avoid wasted votes, as largest remainder method encouraged. Lee Wing-tat failed to be re-elected, losing votes to another Democratic ticket of Albert Chan, while the last seat was won by Tang Siu-tong of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance who stood with the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong ticket.

2000 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories West
10 September 2000 (2000-09-10)
All 6 New Territories West seats to the Legislative Council
  First party Second party
 
Leader Albert Chan, Albert Ho & Lee Wing-tat Tam Yiu-chung
Party Democratic DAB
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 2 seats, 39.2% 1 seat, 19.4%
Seats before 2 1
Seats won 2 2
Seat change 1
Popular vote 117,733 101,629
Percentage 34.3% 29.6%
Swing 4.9% 10.2%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Leung Yiu-chung Lee Cheuk-yan
Party NWSC CTU
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-democracy
Last election 1 seat, 10.3% 1 seat, 12.5%
Seats before 1 1
Seats won 1 1
Seat change
Popular vote 59,348 52,202
Percentage 17.3% 15.2%
Swing 7.0% 2.7%

Overall results

Before election:

↓
4 1
Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing

Change in composition:

↓
4 2
Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Party Seats Seats
change		 Contesting
list(s)		 Votes % %
change
Democratic 2 0 3 117,733 34.3 −4.9
NWSC 1 0 1 59,348 17.3 +7.0
CTU 1 0 1 52,202 15.2 +2.7
Pro-democracy camp 4 0 5 229,283 66.7 –4.5
DAB 2 +1 1 101,629 29.6 +10.2
Liberal 0 0 1 9,408 2.7 +1.9
Pro-Beijing camp 2 0 2 111,037 32.3 +3.5
Independent 0 0 1 3,274 1.0 N/A
Turnout: 343,594 43.7

Candidates list
Legislative Election 2000: New Territories West[1]
List Candidates Votes % ±
DAB (Progressive Alliance) Tam Yiu-chung, Tang Siu-tong
Leung Che-cheung, Chau Chuen-heung, Chan Yau-hoi, Au Yeung Po-chun		 101,629 29.58
(16.67+12.91)		 +10.23
NWSC Leung Yiu-chung 59,348 17.27 +6.97
CTU (Frontier) Lee Cheuk-yan 52,202 15.19 +2.74
Democratic Albert Chan Wai-yip
Cosmas Kwong Kwok-chuen		 43,613 12.69 N/A
Democratic Ho Chun-yan
Josephine Chan Shu-ying, Cheung Yuet-lan, Catherine Wong Lai-sheung		 38,472 11.20 N/A
Democratic Lee Wing-tat, Wong Bing-kuen 35,648 10.38 N/A
Liberal David Yeung Fuk-kwong 9,408 2.74 +1.9
Nonpartisan Angela Man Yun-fei 3,274 0.95 N/A
Total valid votes 343,594 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,663
Turnout 346,257 43.73 −9.52
Registered electors 791,746

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2012-03-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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