Hong Kong legislative election, 2012 (Kowloon West)

2012 Hong Kong legislative election in Kowloon West

9 September 2012 (2012-09-09)

All 5 Kowloon West seats to the Legislative Council

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ann Chiang	Wong Yuk-man	Claudia Mo
Party	DAB	People Power	Civic
Alliance	Pro-Beijing	Pan-democracy	Pan-democracy
Last election	1 seat, 18.9%	1 seat, 18.2%	0 seat, 8.4%
Seats before	1	1	0
Seats won	1	1	1
Seat change			1
Popular vote	47,363	38,578	37,925
Percentage	20.4%	16.6%	16.3%
Swing	0.2%	0.2%	7.9%

	Fourth party	Fifth party

Leader	Helena Wong	Priscilla Leung
Party	Democratic	KWND
Alliance	Pan-democracy	Pro-Beijing
Last election	1 seat, 14.4%	1 seat, 9.6%
Seats before	1	1
Seats won	1	1
Seat change
Popular vote	36,029	34,548
Percentage	15.5%	14.9%
Swing	1.1%	5.3%

Party with most votes in each District Council Constituency.

These are the Kowloon West results of the Hong Kong legislative election, 2012. The election was held on 9 September 2012 and all 5 seats in Kowloon West where consisted of Yau Tsim Mong District, Sham Shui Po District and Kowloon City District were contested. Ann Chiang replacing Starry Lee who contested the District Council (Second) functional constituency stood for the largest pro-Beijing party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong. Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood's Tam Kwok-kiu replacing Frederick Fung who contested the new super seats as well, however lost to his ally Civic Party's Claudia Mo who was not elected in 2008. The ADPL once again lost all the seats in this stronghold since the 1998 election.

Overall results

Party		Seats	Seats change	Contesting list(s)	Votes	%	% change
	People Power	1	0	1	38,578	16.6	−0.2
	Civic	1	+1	1	37,925	16.3	+7.9
	Democratic	1	0	1	36,029	15.5	+1.1
	ADPL	0	−1	1	30,364	13.2	−4.0
	Independent	0	0	1	2,399	1.0	N/A
Pro-democracy camp		3	0	5	145,565	62.7	−1.7
	DAB	1	0	1	47,363	20.4	+0.2
	KWND	1	0	1	34,548	14.9	+5.3
	Independent	0	0	1	3,746	1.6	N/A
Pro-Beijing camp		2	0	3	85,657	36.9	+2.1
	Independent or others	0	0	1	859	0.4	N/A
Turnout:			232,081	53.3

Legislative Election 2012: Kowloon West^[1]
List		Candidates	Votes	%	±
	DAB	Chiang Lai-wan Chris Ip Ngo-tung, Vincent Cheng Wing-shun, Chan Wai-ming, Lam Sum-lim	47,363	20.41 (20+0.41)	+1.51
	People Power	Wong Yuk-man Yim Tat-ming, Chau Tsun-kiu, Lau Tit-wai	38,578	16.62	−1.58
	Civic	Claudia Mo Man-ching Joe Wong Tak-chuen	37,925	16.34	+7.94
	Democratic	Wong Pik-wan Cheung Man-kwong, Li Yiu-kee, Yuen Hoi-man, Chong Miu-sheung	36,029	15.52	+1.12
	KWND	Leung Mei-fun Yang Wing-kit, Wai Hoi-ying, Leung Man-kwong	34,548	14.89	+5.29
	ADPL	Tam Kwok-kiu, Liu Sing-lee, Rosanda Mok Ka-han, Wong Chi-yung, Austen Ng Po-shan	30,634	13.20	−4.00
	Independent	Wong Yee-him	3,746	1.61	N/A
	Independent democrat	Wong Yat-yuk	2,399	1.03	N/A
	Awakening Association	Lam Yi-lai, Simon Ho Ka-kuen, Au Wing-ho, Lee Ka-wai	859	0.37	+0.07
Turnout			232,081	53.25	+6.07

	Candidates	Yau Tsim Mong	Sham Shui Po	Kowloon City	Total
Independent	Wong Yee-him	1.65	1.16	2.05	1.61
Democratic	Helena Wong	18.10	11.90	17.49	15.52
ADPL	Tam Kwok-kiu	6.67	21.71	8.91	13.20
Independent	Roger Wong	1.22	0.96	0.98	1.03
DAB	Ann Chiang	22.71	19.12	20.20	20.41
People Power	Wong Yuk-man	16.75	16.68	16.49	16.62
Awakening Association	Lam Yi-lai	0.53	0.35	0.29	0.37
KWND	Priscilla Leung	14.43	13.24	16.84	14.89
Civic	Claudia Mo	17.96	14.88	16.76	16.34

Pre-election issues

Parties elected to
the Legislative Council

Pan-democracy camp	Civic Party Democratic Party Labour Party People Power League of Social Democrats Neighbourhood and Workers Service Centre Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood Neo Democrats Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union

Pro-Beijing camp	Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions Liberal Party Economic Synergy New People's Party Kowloon West New Dynamic Federation of Hong Kong and Kowloon Labour Unions New Century Forum

Results by area

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