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Colours on map indicate winning party for each constituency. |
The 2019 Tuen Mun District Council election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect all 31 elected members to the 32-member Tuen Mun District Council. [1]
Amid the massive pro-democracy protests in 2019, Junius Ho who was a key anti-protest figure who was allegedly involved in the Yuen Long attack was challenged by Lo Chun-yu in his constituency in the November election. A historic landslide victory occurred as the pro-democrats took 28 of the 31 seats in the council with Ho being unseated. A local political group Tuen Mun Community Network also grabbed three seats as a result.
Before election:
8 | 22 |
Pro-democracy | Pro-Beijing |
Change in composition:
28 | 4 |
Pro-democracy | PB |
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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DAB | 1 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 3.2 | 17.6 | 36,865 | –6.8 | |
Democratic | 8 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 25.8 | 16.8 | 35,184 | –1.8 | |
Independent | 3 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 9.7 | 13.9 | 29,069 | ||
TMCN | 4 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 6.5 | 9.6 | 20,086 | ||
ADPL | 5 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 16.1 | 7.0 | 20,560 | +2.8 | |
FTU | 1 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 3.2 | 6.1 | 12,782 | −4.0 | |
Team Chu | 2 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 6.5 | 5.0 | 10,499 | ||
NPP | 0 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 9,428 | −2.4 | |
Labour | 2 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 8,028 | +2.0 | |
Roundtable | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 6,667 | ||
Empowering HK | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 5,590 | ||
Fu Sun Generation | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 5,486 | ||
LMCG | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 4,410 | ||
Unity of San Hui | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 3,276 | ||
Civic Passion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1,061 | +0.1 |
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