2000 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories West

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2000 Hong Kong legislative election in New Territories West
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  1998 10 September 2000 (2000-09-10) 2004  

All 6 New Territories West seats to the Legislative Council
 First partySecond party
  Albert Chan Wai Yip.jpg Tam Yau Chung.jpg
Leader Albert Chan, Albert Ho & Lee Wing-tat Tam Yiu-chung
Party Democratic DAB
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-Beijing
Last election2 seats, 39.2%1 seat, 19.4%
Seats before21
Seats won22
Seat changeSteady2.svgIncrease2.svg1
Popular vote117,733101,629
Percentage34.3%29.6%
SwingDecrease2.svg4.9%Increase2.svg10.2%

 Third partyFourth party
  Leung Yiu Chung.jpg Metal workers' protest in Hong Kong (Aug 2007) - 2007-08-14 15h41m08s DSC07129.JPG
Leader Leung Yiu-chung Lee Cheuk-yan
Party NWSC CTU
Alliance Pro-democracy Pro-democracy
Last election1 seat, 10.3%1 seat, 12.5%
Seats before11
Seats won11
Seat changeSteady2.svgSteady2.svg
Popular vote59,34852,202
Percentage17.3%15.2%
SwingIncrease2.svg7.0%Increase2.svg2.7%

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.

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Overall results

Before election:

41
Pro-democracyPro-Beijing

Change in composition:

42
Pro-democracyPro-Beijing
PartySeatsSeats
change
Contesting
list(s)
Votes % %
change
Democratic 203117,73334.3−4.9
NWSC 10159,34817.3+7.0
CTU 10152,20215.2+2.7
Pro-democracy camp405229,28366.7–4.5
DAB 2+11101,62929.6+10.2
Liberal 0019,4082.7+1.9
Pro-Beijing camp202111,03732.3+3.5
Independent 0013,2741.0N/A
Turnout:343,59443.7

Candidates list

Legislative Election 2000: New Territories West [1]
ListCandidatesVotesOf total (%)± from prev.
DAB (HKPA) Tam Yiu-chung, Tang Siu-tong
Leung Che-cheung, Chau Chuen-heung, Chan Yau-hoi, Au Yeung Po-chun
101,62929.58
(16.67+12.91)
+10.23
NWSC Leung Yiu-chung 59,34817.27+6.97
CTU (Frontier) Lee Cheuk-yan 52,20215.19+2.74
Democratic Albert Chan Wai-yip
Cosmas Kwong Kwok-chuen
43,61312.69N/A
Democratic Ho Chun-yan
Josephine Chan Shu-ying, Cheung Yuet-lan, Catherine Wong Lai-sheung
38,47211.20N/A
Democratic Lee Wing-tat, Wong Bing-kuen35,64810.38N/A
Liberal David Yeung Fuk-kwong9,4082.74+1.9
Nonpartisan Angela Man Yun-fei3,2740.95N/A
Total valid votes343,594100.00
Rejected ballots2,663
Turnout 346,25743.73−9.52
Registered electors 791,746

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