Hong Kong’s rival camps win one district council seat each in first by-elections since oath-taking saga
Both constituencies up for grabs were in the downtown district of Central and Western
In the Tung Wah constituency in Sheung Wan, Bonnie Ng Hoi-yan of the Democratic Party was announced the winner with 1,034 votes. Her rivals, primary school head teacher Lui Kam-keung and former Labour Party member Olivia Lau Shu-yin, got 909 votes and 20 votes respectively.
Over on The Peak, Jeremy Young Chit-on of the pro-establishment Liberal Party won with 1,378 votes. His rival, democracy activist and hedge fund manager Edward Chin Chi-kin, got 394 votes.
Young was political assistant to the education secretary between 2008 and 2012.
More than 3,500 voters turned out on Sunday for the two polls. Both seats are on the Central and Western District Council, and both were previously held by pro-establishment councillors.
Speaking after winning Siu’s former seat in Tung Wah, Ng said: “The DAB did not field any candidate in the by-election after [Siu] quit to join the government. The voters might think that the pro-establishment party had abandoned them. I can’t rule out that this was the reason some voters did not support a pro-establishment candidate this time.”