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Hong Kong legislative election, 2008 (New Territories East)

2008 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories East
Hong Kong
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All 7 New Territories East seats to the Legislative Council
  First party Second party Third party
  Lau Kong-wah 2014.jpg Nelson Wong Sing Chi (cropped).jpg Leung Kwok-hung 2005.jpg
Leader Lau Kong-wah Wong Sing-chi & Andrew Cheng Leung Kwok-hung
Party DAB Democratic LSD
Alliance Pro-Beijing Pan-democracy Pan-democracy
Last election 2 seats, 22.1% 1 seat, 16.8% 1 seat, 14.1%
Seats before 2 1 1
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change Steady Increase1 Steady
Popular vote 102,434 86,105 44,763
Percentage 28.4% 23.8% 12.4%
Swing Increase6.3% Increase7.0% Decrease1.7%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Ronny Tong Enlarged.jpg Emily Lau cropped.jpg James Tien.jpg
Leader Ronny Tong Emily Lau James Tien
Party Civic Frontier Liberal
Alliance Pan-democracy Pan-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 1 seat, 5.6% 1 seat, 5.6% 1 seat, 15.9%
Seats before 1 1 1
Seats won 1 1 0
Seat change Steady Steady Decrease1
Popular vote 39,957 33,205 28,875
Percentage 11.1% 9.2% 8.0%
Swing Increase5.5% Increase3.6% Decrease7.9%

2008 LegCo Election New Territories East.svg
Party with most votes in each District Council Constituency.

These are the New Territories East results of the Hong Kong legislative election, 2008. The election was held on 7 September 2008 and all 7 seats in New Territories East where consisted of North District, Tai Po District, Sai Kung District and Sha Tin District were contested. The pro-democracy camp succeeded in holding five seats out of seven seats, with James Tien lost his seat to Wong Sing-chi of the Democratic Party.

Before election:

Change in composition:

Legislative Council Elections


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