4 incumbents lose seats as Hong Kong’s Legco records 43.8% turnover
DAB’s Edmund Wong and FTU’s Kwok Wai-keung among those who failed to secure another term in Sunday’s poll
Nearly 44 per cent of the Hong Kong Legislative Council’s seats have been reshuffled after four incumbent lawmakers lost their re-election bids and 35 others declined to run.
Those four who failed to secure another term in Sunday’s poll were Kwok Wai-keung and Michael Luk Chung-hung of the Federation of Trade Unions (FTU), along with Frankie Ngan Man-yu and Edmund Wong Chun-sek of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB).
Following Sunday’s election, 39, or 43.8 per cent, of the 89 current lawmakers will bid farewell to the chamber, as 35 of them had already decided not to seek re-election.
The two FTU candidates had both switched from other constituencies to contest directly elected geographical seats.
Kwok, a three-term lawmaker, switched from the labour constituency to run in Hong Kong Island West, which covers the Central and Western, Southern and Islands districts.
He garnered 25,643 votes, fewer than incumbent Chan Hok-fung of the DAB and Judy Chan Kapui of the New People’s Party. Both Chans secured more than 30,000 votes.