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2019DC election map by official party affiliation. The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. The pro-democracy camp in conjunction with the localist groups achieved its biggest landslide victory in the history of Hong Kong, gaining control of 17 of the 18 District Councils and tripling their seats from around 124 to about 388. Dozens of prominent pro-Beijing heavyweights lost their campaigns for re-election, including Junius Ho, a controversial anti-protest figure who had expressed support for the triads behind the mob attack in Yuen Long on 21 July. Four new seats for the Yuen Long District Council. Local elections, the total number of elected seats for the 2019 elections increased by 21 from 431 to 452.

Some pro-democracy District Councillors accused the EAC of gerrymandering, stating that the borders of their constituencies were altered “unreasonably” to adversely affect their parties’ election prospects. EAC chairman Barnabas Fung responded that the changes were based purely on an objective calculation. In April 2017, Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai proposed the “Project Storm” strategy to win the majority of the District Council seats for the pro-democrats in the coming election. Power for Democracy, a group that coordinated different parties and groups in the pro-democracy camp, worked with pro-democrats to identify suitable candidates for all 452 constituencies. The group also held rounds of non-binding primaries to select a candidate if more than one pro-democrat was interested in running in the same constituency.

However, the camp still risked doubling up in about 30 constituencies. Starting from June, rounds of demonstrations were attended by hundreds of thousands of people. The government first suspended the bill, and later proposed the withdrawal of the bill in September, which officially took place in October. Registration drives are uncommon in Hong Kong, but promotion from campaigners led tens of thousands of new voters to register during mass protests against the controversial extradition bill, pouncing on an opportunity to bolster the democratic opposition’s prospects in the upcoming elections. Over 386,000 newly registered electors were counted, an election cycle record turnout since the handover of Hong Kong. While the number of registered voters had been increasing steadily, large social movements and demonstrations have a tendency to galvanise registration.

EAC, the number of registered voters in the final registers for 2019 was 4,132,977, a record high since the handover of Hong Kong. An unprecedented 1,104 nomination forms were received by the Returning officers in the two-week nomination period from 4 to 17 October, of which six nominees withdrew their candidatures before the end of the nomination period. Henry Wong Pak-yu, who aimed for a seat in the Tin Heng constituency, was also questioned for his previous public pro-independence statements. Both Wongs denied they supported the Hong Kong independence movement. More than ten days after the nomination period, acting Returning Officer Laura Liang Aron, who replaced Dorothy Ma Chau Pui-fun who took indefinite sick leave, barred Joshua Wong from running due to political reasons, making Wong the only pro-democrat to be disqualified due to his political stance in the election. Ordinance which allowed for election meetings to be held in public, following the police rejection of the organisers’ initial demonstration application. Soon after the assembly started, the police quickly declared the rally an unauthorised assembly and dispersed attendees using means such as tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannons.

Three pro-democrat candidates, Osman Cheng Chung-hang, Richard Chan Chun-chit and Man Nim-chi, were seen being taken away by the police. During the operation, officers pepper-sprayed Chan to subdue him, prompting calls from rally-goers for his release. The protests continued with clashes emerging between the police and protesters, where protesters responded to the police crackdown by throwing petrol bombs, vandalising MTR stations and shops seen as sympathetic to the Beijing government, spraying graffiti on walls and building barricades on streets, and capping the 21st week of anti-government demonstrations. Both pro-democrat and pro-Beijing candidates were physically attacked in the run-up to the election. In late September, Stanley Ho Wai-hong of the Labour Party, who was running in the Pak Sha Wan constituency, was attacked by four men dressed in white that were carrying metal rods. On 3 November, during a protest at Cityplaza, the Democratic Party’s Andrew Chiu, defending his Tai Koo Shing West seat, was stabbed by a pro-Beijing Mandarin-speaking male with a knife when he tried to stop a fight after the attacker had already assaulted several people. On the morning of 6 November, pro-Beijing Legislative Councillor Junius Ho was also stabbed by a man with a knife while campaigning for re-election to the Tuen Mun District Council in his Lok Tsui constituency.

There were several self-proclaimed pro-democrat candidates who were later found to be members of pro-Beijing groups and organisations, who contested the elections in the hope of snatching votes from legitimate pro-democracy candidates that were endorsed by the pro-democracy camp. Some voters were found to have no knowledge about the candidates that they have nominated. Apple Daily reported that they had received complaints from the students of Jinan University, who were requested by academic staff and counsellors to vote for pro-Beijing candidates, with them being promised free transportation if they do so. University staff members were able to locate the constituencies in which the students resided. Apple Daily also reported that Wong Yiu-chung, a pro-Beijing candidate from the BPA who was contesting the election for the Wah Lai constituency, had offered free coach rides to voters as an incentive to vote for him. The coaches were adorned with posters of Wong, and potentially constitutes an illegal election-related expense.

Stand News reported that in the Fu Tai constituency, there were alleged voluntary coach services offered to elderly voters by pro-Beijing parties. For results by constituency, see Results breakdown of the 2019 Hong Kong local elections. Election results map by margin of votes between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing camps. Control of the District Councils after the election. The elections to the District Councils of Hong Kong were held during the weekend, in which for the first time since the protests begun, no outbreaks of violence were reported. As the District Councils are the only governmental body chosen by full universal suffrage, the election was widely described as a proxy referendum over the protest movement’s demands. Parties belonging to the pro-Beijing camp and independents won 62 seats in the District Councils, with a loss of 242 seats.

Regina Ip’s New People’s Party was completely removed from power, losing all of their representation in the District Councils. Many pro-democrats who actively participated in the protests also scored victories. Jimmy Sham, the convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, which organised June’s million-strong peaceful marches, won a seat in Lek Yuen. Andrew Chiu of the Democratic Party, was re-elected in Tai Koo Shing West, while Jocelyn Chau, aged 23, who was also arrested on the campaign trail, defeated long-time pro-Beijing incumbent Hui Ching-on in City Garden. Following the publication of the election results, DAB chairwoman Starry Lee submitted her resignation in light of the election results, but her resignation offer was rejected by the DAB’s Central Committee, which stated they wanted Lee to stay and lead the party forward to face the coming challenges ahead of them. Chinese state media outlets tried to downplay the outcome of district elections in Hong Kong, which saw a landslide victory of the pro-democracy camp. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that her government would “listen humbly” and “seriously reflect” on views expressed at the election and would set up an independent review committee to look at cause of social unrest, modelling on Britain’s response to the 2011 Tottenham riots. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019.

Hong Kong voters deliver landslide victory for pro-democracy campaigners”. Election chiefs bring in 21 new Hong Kong district council seats, sparking gerrymandering concerns”. Hong Kong Occupy co-founder Benny Tai unveils ‘Project Storm’ to win more district council seats for pan-democrats”. Hong Kong’s district council elections: how the opposition camp plans to give their pro-establishment rivals a fierce fight”. Florida Division of Elections, Room 316, R. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, Tallahassee, Fl. 2019DC election map by official party affiliation.

The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. The pro-democracy camp in conjunction with the localist groups achieved its biggest landslide victory in the history of Hong Kong, gaining control of 17 of the 18 District Councils and tripling their seats from around 124 to about 388. Dozens of prominent pro-Beijing heavyweights lost their campaigns for re-election, including Junius Ho, a controversial anti-protest figure who had expressed support for the triads behind the mob attack in Yuen Long on 21 July. Four new seats for the Yuen Long District Council. Accordingly, the total number of elected seats for the 2019 elections increased by 21 from 431 to 452. Some pro-democracy District Councillors accused the EAC of gerrymandering, stating that the borders of their constituencies were altered “unreasonably” to adversely affect their parties’ election prospects.

EAC chairman Barnabas Fung responded that the changes were based purely on an objective calculation. In April 2017, Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai proposed the “Project Storm” strategy to win the majority of the District Council seats for the pro-democrats in the coming election. Power for Democracy, a group that coordinated different parties and groups in the pro-democracy camp, worked with pro-democrats to identify suitable candidates for all 452 constituencies. The group also held rounds of non-binding primaries to select a candidate if more than one pro-democrat was interested in running in the same constituency. However, the camp still risked doubling up in about 30 constituencies. Starting from June, rounds of demonstrations were attended by hundreds of thousands of people.

The government first suspended the bill, and later proposed the withdrawal of the bill in September, which officially took place in October. Registration drives are uncommon in Hong Kong, but promotion from campaigners led tens of thousands of new voters to register during mass protests against the controversial extradition bill, pouncing on an opportunity to bolster the democratic opposition’s prospects in the upcoming elections. Over 386,000 newly registered electors were counted, an election cycle record turnout since the handover of Hong Kong. While the number of registered voters had been increasing steadily, large social movements and demonstrations have a tendency to galvanise registration. EAC, the number of registered voters in the final registers for 2019 was 4,132,977, a record high since the handover of Hong Kong. An unprecedented 1,104 nomination forms were received by the Returning officers in the two-week nomination period from 4 to 17 October, of which six nominees withdrew their candidatures before the end of the nomination period. Henry Wong Pak-yu, who aimed for a seat in the Tin Heng constituency, was also questioned for his previous public pro-independence statements.

Both Wongs denied they supported the Hong Kong independence movement. More than ten days after the nomination period, acting Returning Officer Laura Liang Aron, who replaced Dorothy Ma Chau Pui-fun who took indefinite sick leave, barred Joshua Wong from running due to political reasons, making Wong the only pro-democrat to be disqualified due to his political stance in the election. Ordinance which allowed for election meetings to be held in public, following the police rejection of the organisers’ initial demonstration application. Soon after the assembly started, the police quickly declared the rally an unauthorised assembly and dispersed attendees using means such as tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannons. Three pro-democrat candidates, Osman Cheng Chung-hang, Richard Chan Chun-chit and Man Nim-chi, were seen being taken away by the police. During the operation, officers pepper-sprayed Chan to subdue him, prompting calls from rally-goers for his release. The protests continued with clashes emerging between the police and protesters, where protesters responded to the police crackdown by throwing petrol bombs, vandalising MTR stations and shops seen as sympathetic to the Beijing government, spraying graffiti on walls and building barricades on streets, and capping the 21st week of anti-government demonstrations. Both pro-democrat and pro-Beijing candidates were physically attacked in the run-up to the election.

In late September, Stanley Ho Wai-hong of the Labour Party, who was running in the Pak Sha Wan constituency, was attacked by four men dressed in white that were carrying metal rods. On 3 November, during a protest at Cityplaza, the Democratic Party’s Andrew Chiu, defending his Tai Koo Shing West seat, was stabbed by a pro-Beijing Mandarin-speaking male with a knife when he tried to stop a fight after the attacker had already assaulted several people. On the morning of 6 November, pro-Beijing Legislative Councillor Junius Ho was also stabbed by a man with a knife while campaigning for re-election to the Tuen Mun District Council in his Lok Tsui constituency. There were several self-proclaimed pro-democrat candidates who were later found to be members of pro-Beijing groups and organisations, who contested the elections in the hope of snatching votes from legitimate pro-democracy candidates that were endorsed by the pro-democracy camp. Some voters were found to have no knowledge about the candidates that they have nominated. Apple Daily reported that they had received complaints from the students of Jinan University, who were requested by academic staff and counsellors to vote for pro-Beijing candidates, with them being promised free transportation if they do so. University staff members were able to locate the constituencies in which the students resided.

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Apple Daily also reported that Wong Yiu-chung, a pro-Beijing candidate from the BPA who was contesting the election for the Wah Lai constituency, had offered free coach rides to voters as an incentive to vote for him. The coaches were adorned with posters of Wong, and potentially constitutes an illegal election-related expense. Stand News reported that in the Fu Tai constituency, there were alleged voluntary coach services offered to elderly voters by pro-Beijing parties. For results by constituency, see Results breakdown of the 2019 Hong Kong local elections. Election results map by margin of votes between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing camps. Control of the District Councils after the election. The elections to the District Councils of Hong Kong were held during the weekend, in which for the first time since the protests begun, no outbreaks of violence were reported.

As the District Councils are the only governmental body chosen by full universal suffrage, the election was widely described as a proxy referendum over the protest movement’s demands. Parties belonging to the pro-Beijing camp and independents won 62 seats in the District Councils, with a loss of 242 seats. Regina Ip’s New People’s Party was completely removed from power, losing all of their representation in the District Councils. Many pro-democrats who actively participated in the protests also scored victories. Jimmy Sham, the convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, which organised June’s million-strong peaceful marches, won a seat in Lek Yuen. Andrew Chiu of the Democratic Party, was re-elected in Tai Koo Shing West, while Jocelyn Chau, aged 23, who was also arrested on the campaign trail, defeated long-time pro-Beijing incumbent Hui Ching-on in City Garden.

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Following the publication of the election results, DAB chairwoman Starry Lee submitted her resignation in light of the election results, but her resignation offer was rejected by the DAB’s Central Committee, which stated they wanted Lee to stay and lead the party forward to face the coming challenges ahead of them. Chinese state media outlets tried to downplay the outcome of district elections in Hong Kong, which saw a landslide victory of the pro-democracy camp. Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that her government would “listen humbly” and “seriously reflect” on views expressed at the election and would set up an independent review committee to look at cause of social unrest, modelling on Britain’s response to the 2011 Tottenham riots. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Hong Kong voters deliver landslide victory for pro-democracy campaigners”. Election chiefs bring in 21 new Hong Kong district council seats, sparking gerrymandering concerns”.

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Hong Kong Occupy co-founder Benny Tai unveils ‘Project Storm’ to win more district council seats for pan-democrats”. Hong Kong’s district council elections: how the opposition camp plans to give their pro-establishment rivals a fierce fight”. Florida Division of Elections, Room 316, R. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, Tallahassee, Fl. 2019DC election map by official party affiliation. The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested.

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The pro-democracy camp in conjunction with the localist groups achieved its biggest landslide victory in the history of Hong Kong, gaining control of 17 of the 18 District Councils and tripling their seats from around 124 to about 388. Dozens of prominent pro-Beijing heavyweights lost their campaigns for re-election, including Junius Ho, a controversial anti-protest figure who had expressed support for the triads behind the mob attack in Yuen Long on 21 July. Four new seats for the Yuen Long District Council. Accordingly, the total number of elected seats for the 2019 elections increased by 21 from 431 to 452. Some pro-democracy District Councillors accused the EAC of gerrymandering, stating that the borders of their constituencies were altered “unreasonably” to adversely affect their parties’ election prospects. EAC chairman Barnabas Fung responded that the changes were based purely on an objective calculation.

In April 2017, Occupy Central co-founder Benny Tai proposed the “Project Storm” strategy to win the majority of the District Council seats for the pro-democrats in the coming election. Power for Democracy, a group that coordinated different parties and groups in the pro-democracy camp, worked with pro-democrats to identify suitable candidates for all 452 constituencies. The group also held rounds of non-binding primaries to select a candidate if more than one pro-democrat was interested in running in the same constituency. However, the camp still risked doubling up in about 30 constituencies. Starting from June, rounds of demonstrations were attended by hundreds of thousands of people. The government first suspended the bill, and later proposed the withdrawal of the bill in September, which officially took place in October. Registration drives are uncommon in Hong Kong, but promotion from campaigners led tens of thousands of new voters to register during mass protests against the controversial extradition bill, pouncing on an opportunity to bolster the democratic opposition’s prospects in the upcoming elections. Over 386,000 newly registered electors were counted, an election cycle record turnout since the handover of Hong Kong.

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While the number of registered voters had been increasing steadily, large social movements and demonstrations have a tendency to galvanise registration. EAC, the number of registered voters in the final registers for 2019 was 4,132,977, a record high since the handover of Hong Kong. An unprecedented 1,104 nomination forms were received by the Returning officers in the two-week nomination period from 4 to 17 October, of which six nominees withdrew their candidatures before the end of the nomination period. Henry Wong Pak-yu, who aimed for a seat in the Tin Heng constituency, was also questioned for his previous public pro-independence statements. Both Wongs denied they supported the Hong Kong independence movement. More than ten days after the nomination period, acting Returning Officer Laura Liang Aron, who replaced Dorothy Ma Chau Pui-fun who took indefinite sick leave, barred Joshua Wong from running due to political reasons, making Wong the only pro-democrat to be disqualified due to his political stance in the election. Ordinance which allowed for election meetings to be held in public, following the police rejection of the organisers’ initial demonstration application. Soon after the assembly started, the police quickly declared the rally an unauthorised assembly and dispersed attendees using means such as tear gas, pepper spray, and water cannons.

Three pro-democrat candidates, Osman Cheng Chung-hang, Richard Chan Chun-chit and Man Nim-chi, were seen being taken away by the police. During the operation, officers pepper-sprayed Chan to subdue him, prompting calls from rally-goers for his release. The protests continued with clashes emerging between the police and protesters, where protesters responded to the police crackdown by throwing petrol bombs, vandalising MTR stations and shops seen as sympathetic to the Beijing government, spraying graffiti on walls and building barricades on streets, and capping the 21st week of anti-government demonstrations. Both pro-democrat and pro-Beijing candidates were physically attacked in the run-up to the election. In late September, Stanley Ho Wai-hong of the Labour Party, who was running in the Pak Sha Wan constituency, was attacked by four men dressed in white that were carrying metal rods. On 3 November, during a protest at Cityplaza, the Democratic Party’s Andrew Chiu, defending his Tai Koo Shing West seat, was stabbed by a pro-Beijing Mandarin-speaking male with a knife when he tried to stop a fight after the attacker had already assaulted several people. On the morning of 6 November, pro-Beijing Legislative Councillor Junius Ho was also stabbed by a man with a knife while campaigning for re-election to the Tuen Mun District Council in his Lok Tsui constituency. There were several self-proclaimed pro-democrat candidates who were later found to be members of pro-Beijing groups and organisations, who contested the elections in the hope of snatching votes from legitimate pro-democracy candidates that were endorsed by the pro-democracy camp. Some voters were found to have no knowledge about the candidates that they have nominated.

Apple Daily reported that they had received complaints from the students of Jinan University, who were requested by academic staff and counsellors to vote for pro-Beijing candidates, with them being promised free transportation if they do so. University staff members were able to locate the constituencies in which the students resided. Apple Daily also reported that Wong Yiu-chung, a pro-Beijing candidate from the BPA who was contesting the election for the Wah Lai constituency, had offered free coach rides to voters as an incentive to vote for him. The coaches were adorned with posters of Wong, and potentially constitutes an illegal election-related expense. Stand News reported that in the Fu Tai constituency, there were alleged voluntary coach services offered to elderly voters by pro-Beijing parties. For results by constituency, see Results breakdown of the 2019 Hong Kong local elections. Election results map by margin of votes between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing camps. Control of the District Councils after the election.

The elections to the District Councils of Hong Kong were held during the weekend, in which for the first time since the protests begun, no outbreaks of violence were reported. As the District Councils are the only governmental body chosen by full universal suffrage, the election was widely described as a proxy referendum over the protest movement’s demands. Parties belonging to the pro-Beijing camp and independents won 62 seats in the District Councils, with a loss of 242 seats. Regina Ip’s New People’s Party was completely removed from power, losing all of their representation in the District Councils. Many pro-democrats who actively participated in the protests also scored victories. Jimmy Sham, the convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, which organised June’s million-strong peaceful marches, won a seat in Lek Yuen. Andrew Chiu of the Democratic Party, was re-elected in Tai Koo Shing West, while Jocelyn Chau, aged 23, who was also arrested on the campaign trail, defeated long-time pro-Beijing incumbent Hui Ching-on in City Garden. Following the publication of the election results, DAB chairwoman Starry Lee submitted her resignation in light of the election results, but her resignation offer was rejected by the DAB’s Central Committee, which stated they wanted Lee to stay and lead the party forward to face the coming challenges ahead of them. Chinese state media outlets tried to downplay the outcome of district elections in Hong Kong, which saw a landslide victory of the pro-democracy camp.

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that her government would “listen humbly” and “seriously reflect” on views expressed at the election and would set up an independent review committee to look at cause of social unrest, modelling on Britain’s response to the 2011 Tottenham riots. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Hong Kong voters deliver landslide victory for pro-democracy campaigners”. Election chiefs bring in 21 new Hong Kong district council seats, sparking gerrymandering concerns”. Hong Kong Occupy co-founder Benny Tai unveils ‘Project Storm’ to win more district council seats for pan-democrats”. Hong Kong’s district council elections: how the opposition camp plans to give their pro-establishment rivals a fierce fight”.

Florida Division of Elections, Room 316, R. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, Tallahassee, Fl. 2019DC election map by official party affiliation. The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. The pro-democracy camp in conjunction with the localist groups achieved its biggest landslide victory in the history of Hong Kong, gaining control of 17 of the 18 District Councils and tripling their seats from around 124 to about 388.