Hong Kong legislative election, 2004 (Hong Kong Island)

2004 Hong Kong legislative election in Hong Kong Island
12 September 2004 (2004-09-12)
All 6 Hong Kong Island seats to the Legislative Council

  First party Second party
 
Leader Yeung Sum Ma Lik
Party Democratic DAB
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 2 seats, 35.3% 2 seats, 27.8%
Seats before 2 1
Seats won 2 2
Seat change Steady Increase1
Popular vote 131,788 74,659
Percentage 37.2% 21.1%
Swing Increase1.9% Decrease6.7%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Audrey Eu (Independent) Rita Fan
Party Frontier Independent
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election 1 seat, 10.0% N/A
Seats before 1 0
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Steady Increase1
Popular vote 73,844 65,661
Percentage 20.9% 18.5%
Swing Increase10.9% N/A
Party with most votes in each District Council Constituency.

These are the Hong Kong Island results of the Hong Kong legislative election, 2004. The election was held on 12 September 2004 and all 6 seats in Hong Kong Island were contested. The pro-democracy camp failed to win four out of six seats with the two tickets of the Democratic Party and Article 45 Concern Group's Audrey Eu and The Frontier's Cyd Ho joint ticket. The last-minute emergency call of Martin Lee cost the defeat of Cyd Ho in a narrow margin to Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong's (DAB) Choy So-yuk. Legislative Council President Rita Fan also contested in Hong Kong Island for the first time.

Six tickets took part in the election, with the DAB fielding a ticket of chairman Ma Lik and Choy So-yuk and the pro-democrats fielding two tickets, one consisted of Martin Lee, Yeung Sum and Joseph Lai Chi-keung of the Democratic Party and the other consisted of Audrey Eu and Cyd Ho. Other candidates included former Democratic Party member Tsang Kin-shing and independent insurance agent Kelvin Wong Kam-fai. Rita Fan also fielded her one-candidate ticket, aiming at the votes from the middle and upper class voters from the sandwich of Hong Kong's pro-Beijing vs. pro-democracy political spectrum, despite herself was supported by the pro-Beijing camp.

The two pro-democracy tickets with the slogan "1+1=4" provided that their supporters would have cast their votes evenly to the two tickets. Pre-election polls showed, nevertheless, that the Eu-Ho ticket had far more supporters, causing the Democratic Party to request all supporters of the camp to vote instead for their ticket just two weeks before the election. It turned out that the Democratic Party drew too many votes from the Eu-Ho ticket, causing Cyd Ho defeat by DAB's Choy So-yuk, by a slim margin of 815 votes (or 0.23% of all valid votes). Should the Democratic Party drew around 1900 more votes from the Eu-Ho ticket, the third-rank candidate on their list would have defeated Choy. When the results were announced in the morning of the following day, Martin Lee said before cameras "I'd rather lose with dignity than win like this", on the "unexpected" defeat of Cyd Ho.[1]

Overall results

Before election:

↓
3 2
Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing

Change in composition:

↓
3 3
Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Party Seats Seats
change		 Contesting
list(s)		 Votes % %
change
Democratic 2 0 1 131,788 37.2 +1.9
Frontier 1 0 1 73,844 20.9 +10.9
Independent 0 0 1 5,313 1.5 N/A
Pro-democracy camp 3 0 3 210,945 59.6 +10.5
DAB 1 0 1 74,659 21.1 –6.7
Independent 1 0 1 65,661 18.5 N/A
Pro-Beijing camp 3 0 2 140,320 39.6 +0.7
Independent 0 0 1 2,830 0.8 N/A
Turnout: 354,095 57.6

Candidates list

Vote share

  Democratic (37.2%)
  DAB (21.1%)
  Other (41.7%)
Legislative Election 2004: Hong Kong Island[2]
List Candidates Votes % ±
Democratic Yeung Sum, Martin Lee Chu-ming
Joseph Lai Chi-keong		 131,788 37.2
(16.67+16.67+3.88)		 +1.9
DAB Ma Lik, Choy So-yuk
Christopher Chung Shu-kun, Yeung Wai-foon, Lee Yuen-kwong, Cheung Kwok-kwan		 74,659 21.1
(16.67+4.42)		 −6.7
Independent (Frontier) Audrey Eu Yuet-mee
Cyd Ho Sau-lan		 73,844 20.9
(16.67+4.15)		 N/A
Nonpartisan Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai 65,661 18.5 N/A
Grass-root pro-democrats Tsang Kin-shing, Chung Chung-fai, Tang Chui-chung 5,313 1.5 −2.3
Nonpartisan Kelvin Wong Kam-fai 2,830 0.8 N/A
Total valid votes 354,095 100.00
Rejected ballots 2,270
Turnout 356,365 57.62 +15.59
Registered electors 618,451

See also

References

  1. ↑ South China Morning Post, 14 September 2004
  2. ↑ "2004 Legislative Election". Electoral Affairs Commission. 2004-12-15. Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
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