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The 2019 Sha Tin District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 41 elected members to the 42-member Sha Tin District Council. [1]
In the historic landslide victory in 2019, the pro-democrats took control of the council by sweeping 40 of the 41 elected seats. Only new constituency Di Yee was won by pro-Beijing DAB as two pro-democrat candidates split the votes which gave the DAB the victory.
Before election:
19 | 20 |
Pro-democracy | Pro-Beijing |
Change in composition:
40 | 2 |
Pro-democracy | PB |
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | 11 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 26.8 | 32.0 | 98,085 | ||
DAB | 1 | 1 | 7 | −6 | 2.4 | 15.3 | 46,759 | −2.7 | |
NPP | 0 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 0.0 | 12.0 | 36,732 | −4.4 | |
Democratic | 6 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 14.6 | 9.9 | 30,444 | −5.1 | |
Civic | 7 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 17.1 | 9.8 | 29,914 | +7.7 | |
Community Sha Tin | 5 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 12.2 | 8.3 | 25,509 | ||
PfD | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 4.9 | 2.4 | 7,315 | ||
Civil Force | 0 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 7,164 | ||
FTU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 6,707 | −0.5 | |
STCV | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 4,691 | ||
Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 4,665 | −2.3 | |
Neo Democrats | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 2.4 | 1.3 | 3,869 | −7.2 | |
LSD | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 3,283 | +0.2 | |
Liberal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1,211 | ||
ASEA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 54 |
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